The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats
Once famously described as ‘licentious, festering reprobates’ and ‘leprous anti-establishment scumbags’ and banned from playing in their home country, it’s difficult to overestimate the shock and awe The Boomtown Rats inspired in late 70s Ireland.
They became one of the biggest bands of the late 70s/80s with a string of top ten hits and platinum albums, earning them Brit Awards and Ivor Novellos. Making history as the first Irish band to have a UK no 1 hit with ‘Rat Trap’, they went on to top the charts in 32 Countries with ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ and racked up 6 era-defining albums.
B*Witched
B*witched
B*Witched are a hugely successful Irish girl group who were originally active between 1998 and 2002. They enjoyed success in the UK, throughout Europe and North America, releasing two albums and eight singles, all of which made the UK Top 20 including four singles which topped the UK charts, securing them a place in the Record Books!
In 2013 they reunited for the hit ITV2 series, The Big Reunion. They embarked on 2 sell out arena tours that year playing to a combined audience of 250,000, and have since been busy recording, and playing live across the world.
Chris Moyles – DJ Set
Chris Moyles
Chris Moyles boasts a long successful career spanning over 30 years in the entertainment industry working as an author, and radio and television presenter.
Starting his radio career in his hometown of Leeds at the age of just 16, Chris worked for legendary stations such as Radio Luxembourg and London’s Capital FM before joining BBC Radio One and quickly becoming one of the stations most talked about and popular DJ’s.
During lockdown, he ran many online live DJ events, entertaining his 360k followers on Instagram each Friday night, totalling over 5 million combined views. He has now transitioned to in-person appearances and shows.
Roland Gift – Fine Young Cannibals
Roland Gift
Roland Gift is a British musician and actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Fine Young Cannibals.
The group combined pop, rock, and soul influences, with Roland’s distinctive voice becoming a defining feature of their sound.
Their debut album, Fine Young Cannibals (1985), achieved critical and commercial success, including hits like “Johnny Come Home” and “Suspicious Minds”
After Fine Young Cannibals disbanded in the early 1990s, Roland pursued solo music ventures. He remains a respected figure in music and pop culture, celebrated for his unique vocal style and contributions to 1980s and 1990s pop music.
Hue & Cry
Hue & Cry
Hue & Cry have sold tens of thousands of concert tickets worldwide. As well as performing alongside some of the greatest artists in music history the band have undertaken a multitude of their own headline tours and made numerous festival appearances.
Having made a welcome return to performing in front of audiences in both their ‘electro/acoustic’ duo and ‘full band’ set-ups, Hue & Cry continued to impress throughout their 40th Anniversary in 2024 a year when they will continually release a carefully curated selection of rare material from their personal archive along with accompanying memorabilia and commentary.
Chesney Hawkes
Chesney Hawkes
With his era-defining smash hit ‘The One and Only’, film star good looks and boy next door charm, Chesney Hawkes was one of the UK’s biggest pop stars of the ‘90s.
Three decades on, and now certifiably the kind of bloke you’d love to have a pint with, the national treasure Chesney kick-starts a new stage in his career and introduces himself to brand new audiences with the new singles ‘Get A Hold Of Yourself’ and ‘Live Forever’- his first all-new music in more than a decade, taken from his forthcoming album due in 2025.
Five Star (Deniece Pearson)
Five Star (Deniece Pearson)
Deniece Pearson is a Brit award winner, Grammy nominee and lead singer with iconic pop group, FIVE STAR.
FIVE STAR were the youngest British group to have a number 1 album and the first group to achieve seven consecutive hit singles from one album in the UK.
After appearing on BBC1’s The Voice in 2012 Deniece got a dream gig – supporting The Jacksons on their UK tour!
Deniece is continuing to perform at festivals and shows around the world as a solo artist and as the original voice of FIVE STAR.
Rozalla
Rozalla
Rozalla’s worldwide hit Everybody’s Free in 1993 gave her the nickname “Queen of Rave” went top 10 in over 30 countries.
After touring with Michael Jackson on the European leg of his Dangerous tour, and several other charting singles, Rozalla enjoyed UK Top 20/US Top 100 success in 1994 with her cover of ‘I Love Music’, the theme song to the film Carlito’s Way. Three more dance singles, including a cover of Soul Family Sensation’s underground hit ‘I Don’t Even Know If I Should Call You Baby’, also reached the upper regions of the UK Singles Chart.
Rozalla has always been performing and now she is back recording new material.
Boomin
Boomin
Boomin is an outstanding, live, three-piece Party Rock band. Think Green Day & McFly meets Mick Jagger!
Formed in 2006, Boomin take ordinary songs, mix them, mash them and create something way beyond conventional. They take the recognisable and spin it into the unexpected with interjections of classic rock into modern chart without so much of an iota’s thinking time. Their performance is audacious, outrageous, contagious, and salacious, but why shouldn’t it be? The boys do it better than anyone else currently on the scene and they are absolutely in a league of their own!
Nathan Moore
Nathan Moore
Brother Beyond was signed to EMI records in 1986, but it would take 2 years and four singles for the band to achieve their first hit, the Motown influenced ‘The Harder I Try’. The song became a huge hit peaking at number 2 in the UK charts.
The band’s second single ‘He Ain’t No Competition’ charted at #6, and this was followed by two singles that were written by the band ‘Be My Twin’ #14 and ‘Can You Keep A Secret’ #21. Their album ‘Get Even’ was a top ten hit selling over 400,000 copies in December 1988 in the UK.
Nathan went on to front the Simon Cowell assembled boy band Worlds Apart, after initially joining in 1994 the band went on to achieve huge success in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium and also France where, in 1997, the band sold 1 million copies of their album Everybody with songs such as ‘Everlasting Love’ and ‘Je Te Donne, Quand Je Reve De Toi’.
Nathan has co-managed acts such as Lisa Scott-Lee, Natasha Bedingfield, James Fox, Haydon Eshun, Phixx, and the Opera singer Keedie, and during this period appeared in TV shows such as Totally Scott-Lee for MTV, and Boys Will Be Girls for channel 4.
We’re delighted to have Nathan join us once again!