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​LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY
ANNOUNCE FURTHER TOUR DATES
DUE TO PHENOMENAL DEMAND
Cliffs Pavilion, Southend on Sea
1st March 2020



+ NEW ALBUM ‘BLUE SKY IN YOUR HEAD’ WILL NOW BE RELEASED JULY 5
CONTAINS THE BBC RADIO 2 PLAYLISTED LEAD SINGLE ‘MY SALVATION’
+ ‘ESSENTIALS’: ALL THEIR CLASSIC SONGS REMASTERED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME

Due to phenomenal demand Lighthouse Family have added a second run of tour dates for February 2020 in addition to their nearly sold-out run in November 2019. Lighthouse Family’s new album ‘Blue Sky In Your Head’ – the multi-platinum selling duo’s first new studio album since 2001 - will now be released on July 5th, moving from its original May release date:

We are very sorry to have to share this message with you - due to some unforeseen production issues, the release date of ‘Blue Sky In Your Head' is moving back to 5th July… We are so thankful for all of your support and for waiting so patiently over the last 18 years. We hope this will be worth the wait for you.
Lighthouse Family HQ
 
Pre-order ‘Blue Sky In Your Head’ via the Official Store.
 
NEWLY ANNOUNCED HEADLINE TOUR DATES, FEBRUARY/MARCH 2020
February 16                  Dublin Olympia Theatre
February 17                  Sheffield City Hall
February 18                  Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
February 20                  Edinburgh Usher Hall
February 21                  Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle City Hall
February 22                  Hull Bonus Arena
February 24                  Ipswich Regent
February 25                  Brighton Dome
February 27                  London Palladium
February 28                  Cardiff St David's Hall
February 29                  Portsmouth Guildhall
March 1                          Southend Cliffs Pavilion
Tickets on sale 10am this Friday May 3
 
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED DATES, NOV 2019:
November 11                Birmingham Symphony Hall SOLD OUT
November 13                Glasgow Royal Concert Hall SOLD OUT
November 14                Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle City Hall SOLD OUT
November 15                Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
November 17                Halifax The Victoria Theatre
November 18                Manchester Bridgewater Hall SOLD OUT
November 20                Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion  SOLD OUT
November 21                Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre SOLD OUT
November 22                London London Palladium SOLD OUT
 
‘Blue Sky In Your Head’ is Lighthouse Family’s fourth album, and sees them back on their original label Polydor and reunited with the A&R that discovered them, Colin Barlow, and their first manager, Keith Armstrong; the same team that was around them when they were at their FM Radio-dominating peak. The lead single is the Radio 2 playlisted 'My Salvation', a lushly melodic track every bit as good as you’d expect from the band that produced the timeless hit singles ‘Lifted’, ‘High’, and ‘Ocean Drive’ - all of which included on ‘Essentials’, which will come packaged with ‘Blue Sky In Your Head’ and contains ten classic Lighthouse Family songs remastered for the very first time to celebrate their 25-year recording history.
 
Tunde Baiyewu and Paul Tucker formed Lighthouse Family after meeting at Newcastle University in the early 1990s. Their 1995 debut album ‘Ocean Drive’ was a slow-burning success, going six times platinum while staying in the album charts for almost three years. ‘Lifted’ became one the defining songs of the era, a pop-soul classic that was inescapable on radio, becoming the soundtrack of high street Britain, drivetime Britain and night-out Britain.
 
The 1997 follow-up, ‘Postcards From Heaven’, featured three Top Ten singles – ‘Raincloud’, ‘High’ and ‘Lost in Space’ – and also went six-times platinum, charting across Europe, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. Their third album, ‘Whatever Gets You Through The Day’ (2001) produced another Top Ten single in the shape of ‘(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free/One’, but by this time the band were at breaking point, their friendship burnt out after years on the road living in each others’ pockets.
 
In the intervening years Paul formed a band, The Orange Lights, while Tunde released two solo albums, but the old connection between the pair remained and they reunited in 2016, determined to make a new record, something that was classic Lighthouse Family, but also sounded like it could be made today.
 
The years have not dulled Lighthouse Family’s remarkable ability to craft elegantly beautiful songs. Their first single in almost two decades, ‘My Salvation’ is an upbeat track that flies high on lush strings and has echoes of Pet Shop Boys at their imperial best. The rippling, rolling title track ‘Blue Sky In Your Head’ has a theme, says Tunde, similar to ‘Ocean Drive’. “A dream of a place, a dream of escape, something you want to get away to.”
 
“And that’s kind of you what you want Lighthouse Family songs to do: put a Blue Sky In Your Head,” adds Paul.
 
Indeed, the new album has something that has always been present with Lighthouse Family: a sense of optimism and renewal.  “We’re trying to create something anthemic and uplifting but real,” says Paul. “That idea of: ‘I know the sun’s gonna shine again’, it’s quintessential Lighthouse Family.”
 
Messages of hope and uplift. Sentiments of community and communion. Songs of love and connection. Tunes to sing, loudly, from the heart. It can only be Lighthouse Family, back to dream up the magic all over again.
 
TRACKLISTINGS:
Blue Sky In Your Head:
1. Blue Sky In Your Head
2. My Salvation
3. Live Again
4. The Long Goodbye
5. Clouds
6. Waterloo Street
7. Put My Heart on You
8. Light On
9. Who's Gonna Save Me Now?
10. Super 8
11. The Streetlights And The Rain
12. Under Your Wings
13. Immortal
 
Essentials:
1. Ocean Drive
2. Lifted
3. High
4. Raincloud
5. Lost In Space
6. Loving Every Minute
7. Free/One
8. Question Of Faith
9. Goodbye Heartbreak
10. Postcard From Heaven

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