We’re all very much looking forward to the forthcoming Bootleg Sixties Spring 2012 theatre tour. This will be our third consecutive national tour and promises to be the best yet, with many new songs and images along with familiar tunes which are already established as firm favourites with our audience. We’ll begin at Edmonton’s Millfield Arts Centre on March 23rd and in the following five weeks we’ll be celebrating the great music of the 60s throughout the UK. We’ve had a fantastic time with the show so far and we’ll be looking forward to playing some brand-new locations as well as revisiting some of our favourite venues from 2010 and 2011. “Watch out for us appearing at a theatre near you!”
It looks like 2012 is going to be a BIG year for The Bootleg Sixties starring the fabulous Overtures. Not only has a third successive UK theatre tour been booked for this spring, the show will be making its debut “The Bootleg Sixties Christmas Special” in late November and early December, and with some other high-profile appearances still in the pipeline, it’s really not hard to see why all of us in The Bootleg Sixties camp are so looking forward to the next twelve months.
There’s no doubt now that the show has already established itself as a favourite fixture on the UK theatre circuit. Even as the recession bit deeper into the pockets of concert goers everywhere the Bootleg Sixties continues to grow, so all the signs for the future of the show are excellent.
The 2012 dates will see yet more changes to the song repertoire and the show itself, as we want to make sure that there’s always something a bit different for the loyal fans who come to see us on each tour. As anyone who caught us on our headlining show at the Liverpool Philharmonic in last August will confirm, sometimes these changes can be quite radical! Having been asked by the promoters of the Beatles Festival to devise a special version of the show which celebrated the music of artistes who had appeared at The Cavern, we shocked and delighted the sell-out crowd by including songs from Oasis, Adele, Status Quo and even Queen – complete with an appearance by Freddie Mercury! We’ll be back on more familiar ground with the 2012 dates, but there’ll still be plenty to get excited about. As we always say, the beat goes on!!
______________________________________________________ MARCH
23 EDMONTON Millfield Arts Centre Box Office
24 EDMONTON Millfield Arts Centre Box Office
25 CROYDON Ashcroft Theatre Box Office
27 CREWE Lyceum Box Office
28 HAYES The Beck Theatre Box Office
29 TELFORD Oakengates Theatre Box Office
30 ANDOVER The Lights Box Office
31 MARLBOROUGH Theatre On The Hill Box Office
FEBRUARY
2nd: Dartford Orchard 3rd: High Wycombe Swan 4th: Derby Assembly Rooms 6th: Redditch Palace 7th: Hunstanton Princess 8th:Tunbridge Wells Assembly 9th: Edmonton Millfield 10th: St Helens Theatre Royal 14th: Hayes Beck Theatre 16th: Swindon Wyvern 18th: Bedford Corn Exchange 19th: Worthing Assembly Hall 20th: Market Drayton Festival 21st: Weymouth Pavillion 23rd: Stevenage Gordon Craig 24th: Harpenden Public Halls 25th: Harlow Playhouse 26th: Cheltenham Town Hall 27th: Newport Riverfront 28th: Boston Blackfriars
MARCH
2nd: Llandudno Venue Cymr 3rd: Coventry Belgrade 4th: Wakefield Theatre Royal 5th: Scunthorpe Plowright 6th: Bridlington Spa 7th: Loughborough Town Hall 9th: South Shields Customs House 10th: Consett Empire 11th: Stockport Plaza 12th: Pocklington Arts Centre 13th: Wimborne Tivoli 17th: Basildon Towngate 18th: Aldershot Princes Hall 19th: Dunstable Grove 23rd: Preston Charter 24th: Crewe Lyceum 25th: Haverhill Arts Centre 26th: Marlborough St Johns Theatre 27th: Eastbourne Congress 28th: Croydon Ashcroft
AUGUST
26th: Whitley Bay Playhouse 27th: Liverpool Philharmonic
SEPTEMBER
1st: Bromsgrove The Artrix 2nd: Christchurch Regent Centre 5th: Wavendon Stables 6th: Hereford Courtyard 7th: Leamington Spa Royal Spa Centre 8th: Doncaster Civic
2011
FEBRUARY
24th: Haverhill Arts Centre 25th: Morecambe Platform 26th: Festival Drayton Centre 27th: Skegness Embassy Theatre
MARCH
1st: Stockport Plaza 2nd: Croydon Ashcroft Theatre 3rd: Loughborough Town Hall 4th: Andover The Lights 5th: Worthing Assembly 6th: Marlborough St John’s School 8th: Edmonton Milllfield Arts Centre 9th: Harlow 10th: Aldershot Princes Hall 11th: Derby Assembly 12th: Telford Oakengates Theatre 13th: St Helens Theatre Royal 15th: Scunthorpe Plowright Theatre 16th: Radlett Centre 17th: Stevenage Gordon Craig 18th: Bridlington Spa Theatre 19th: Dumfries DG One 25th: Dunstable Grove Theatre 26th: Wimborne Tivoli 30th: Weymouth Pavilion 31st: Exmouth Pavilion
APRIL
1st: Blackwood Miner’s Institute 2nd: Porthcawl Grand Pavilion 3rd: Buxton Opera House
