Band maintains the Status Quo
WHAT’S ON EDITOR GORDON BARR HAS NEWS OF A NEW TOUR FROM STATUS QUO
BRITAIN’S best-loved rockers Status Quo will undertake a full UK winter tour including a Newcastle City Hall show.
The band will be performing hits from across their five-decade career, in their celebrated Aquostic style and will be at the City Hall on December 6.
This tour once again allows the band to explore and redefine the songs that made their name. With the band having just sold out an Aquostic show at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall on July 1, demand for tickets is sure to be high!
These shows will be fully acoustic and feature additional musicians, including female backing vocalists. This 2017 Winter Tour will be the second such set of dates to take place without guitarist Rick Parfitt, whose death at the end of last year shocked and saddened Quo and their fans, but left the band newly motivated to perform and honour these songs to a fan base that remains equally enthused. Francis Rossi said: “Things are not the same, nor should they be, but the show goes on because band and fans alike still love this amazing music.”
Packed with hits taken from their unbelievable back catalogue and reworked, the now seriously roadtested ‘Aquostic’ approach has represented a new dawn for the band. This inventive approach frees the arrangements but retains the potency of the songs.
Status Quo play Newcastle City Hall on Wednesday, December 6, 2017.
Tickets go on sale Friday, from 9am and can be purchased at www. theatreroyal.co.uk or from the Theatre Royal Box office on 08448 11 21 21 (Calls cost 7ppm plus your phone company’s access charge).