Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe two pioneers of the laborious rock scene will headline Lytham Competition 2023 alongside aspect a tremendous line up of Jamiroquai, George Ezra, Sting, Lionel Richie and extra.
The road-up of worldwide rock, pop and funk legends and multi-award-winning musicians will see Lancashire’s greatest dwell music pageant return for what is ready to be 5 unforgettable nights.
Together with the headliners, US rock band Blondie, indie heroes Kaiser Chiefs, award-winning hitmaker Gabrielle, Scissor Sisters’ frontman Jake Shears, New York’s kings of cool Enjoyable Lovin’ Criminals, singer songwriter of the second Cat Burns and British pop icon Kim Wilde additionally be a part of the invoice as particular friends and assist artists.
Lytham Competition 2023 will happen on Lytham Inexperienced from Wednesday 28 June to Sunday 02 July.
All tickets are on sale now from www.lythamfestival.com
If you would like a style of what to anticipate from Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe can provide, try the piece beneath from once they toured the US final yr:
THE STADIUM TOUR hit choose cities within the U.S. the place every band introduced their electrifying stage reveals to the plenty.
Lytham Competition director Peter Taylor mentioned: “What a line-up! We’re at all times excited to disclose who shall be coming to Lytham Competition and for 2023 we’ve got one in all our greatest line-ups up to now.
“Annually we endeavour to work with artists who enchantment to as extensive an viewers as potential. So whenever you’ve bought Jamiroquai opening the pageant, George Ezra the next evening, after which Sting with particular visitor Blondie, I believe it’s honest to say that represents a really diversified week at Lytham.
“Add to that we’re delighted we’ve got the icon that’s Lionel Richie lastly coming to us and naturally, arguably the world’s most iconic and celebrated rock legends to shut the pageant – Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe.
SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND – MAY 22: Def Leppard carry out dwell for the “The World Tour” at Sheffield Bramall Lane on Could 22, 2023 in Sheffield, England. (Picture by Anthony Devlin/Getty Photographs for Stay Nation UK)
“Lytham Competition is all in regards to the viewers and what we are able to convey to these music followers yearly. 2023 represents an enormous line up of each worldwide stars and homegrown expertise. It’s going to be an enormous yr.”
The opening evening of Lytham Competition 2023 will see English Funk and acid jazz outfit Jamiroquai headline on Wednesday June 28. Led by jazz-infused soulman Jay Kay, Jamiroquai have offered greater than 27 million albums, scooped a Grammy and Ivor Novello awards and loved a number of sold-out world excursions.
From Too Younger To Die and Area Cowboy to Cosmic Woman and big crowd pleaser Digital Madness, Jamiroquai are set to launch the celebration for the pageant’s greatest ever funk evening.
Soul band Stone Basis will open the night adopted by Scooby Snacks hitmakers Enjoyable Lovin’ Criminals whereas Jake Shears would be the predominant assist.
Jake Shears is the lead singer of the multiplatinum-selling, Grammy-nominated, BRIT award-winning American glam rock band Scissor Sisters however has additionally loved nice success for his solo work following the discharge of his 2018 eponymous debut album.
Forward of Jake’s set, New York’s Enjoyable Lovin’ Criminals will convey their infectious mix of cinematic hip-hop, rock ‘n’ roll, blues-jazz and Latin-soul to leafy Lytham. With six studio albums, two cowl albums, a triple dwell album and varied better of’s behind them, Enjoyable Lovin’ Criminals are at present placing the ending touches to their seventh studio album.
And for Stone Basis, a set at Lytham pageant marks a part of the 25th anniversary yr celebrations for the eight-piece outfit who’ve loved enormous successes through the years and have collaborated with artists together with Paul Weller, Melba Moore and Peter Capaldi.
BRIT Award-winning, multi-platinum promoting musician George Ezra will then headline on Thursday June 29. It’s a return journey to the Fylde coast for Ezra who shared the invoice on the pageant in 2018 with Emeli Sandé.
George is likely one of the UK’s most acclaimed songwriters and dwell performers. After two blockbuster albums – Needed On Voyage (2014) and Staying At Tamara’s (2018), each of which reached #1 within the UK and offered hundreds of thousands world wide – he launched third album The Gold Rush Child earlier this yr which as soon as once more loved the #1 spot within the UK and contains the hit singles Anybody For You and Inexperienced Inexperienced Grass.
George shall be joined by triple BRIT Awards 2023 nominee Cat Burns, The Huge Moon and Kingfishr.
Cat went from busking on London’s Southbank to mastering TikTok throughout lockdown amassing an enormous following and reward for her music. Drawing on gospel influences, pop inspirations and a love of guitar led and indie music, Cat is a quickly rising star on the UK music scene and can carry out her smash 2022 hit single Go on tomorrow evening’s BRIT Awards.
She will even be joined by English indie rock band The Huge Moon at Lytham. The alt-pop four-piece launched their third album Right here is All the pieces to vital acclaim final October and have dates throughout the UK pageant calendar this summer season.
And opening the evening shall be Limerick-based three-piece outfit Kingfishr who’ve shortly established themselves as one of many rising prospects in Irish music.
Friday June 30 will see musician and acclaimed singer-songwriter Sting headline and he shall be joined by particular visitor US rock band Blondie.
Composer, singer-songwriter, actor and writer Sting has remained a continuing on the worldwide music scene since forming The Police again in 1977. As one of many world’s most distinctive artists, with The Police and as a solo artist, his award-filled profession contains no fewer than 17 Grammy Awards, 4 BRITS, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, 4 Oscar nominations and a TONY nomination.
Sting’s Lytham set will see followers take pleasure in a musical journey taking in hits together with Fields of Gold, Form of my Coronary heart, Roxanne, Englishman In New York, Each Breath You Take, Message In A Bottle and lots of extra.
Particular visitor Blondie are undeniably one of the trailblazing and influential bands of our time. Blondie is pioneering frontwoman/songwriter Debbie Harry, guitarist/conceptual mastermind Chris Stein and powerhouse drummer Clem Burke, together with bandmates bassist Glen Matlock, guitarist Tommy Kessler and keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen.
Amongst their hits is the groundbreaking rock-disco hybrid Coronary heart of Glass, the equally influential hip-hop fantasia Rapture, the stalker-love music One Approach Or One other and the lilting calypso The Tide Is Excessive.
Help will come from Yorkshire’s indie heroes Kaiser Chiefs and quickly rising Australian sibling trio Germein.
An extended-awaited headliner set from Lionel Richie will fill Lytham Inexperienced on Saturday July 01 because the worldwide famous person will carry out songs from his intensive and much-loved repertoire spanning many years, all the way in which from the Commodores to the current day.
Lionel Richie’s reveals are world famend for his or her celebration ambiance, with followers set to take pleasure in timeless mega-hits and singalong classics equivalent to Three Occasions A Girl, Actually, Say You Say Me and All Evening Lengthy. His music is a part of the material of pop music and Richie has offered greater than 125 million albums worldwide and is an Oscar, Golden Globe, and four-time Grammy Awards winner.
He shall be supported by award-winning hitmaker Gabrielle, British pop icon Kim Wilde and blues, soul and rock artist Kevin Davy White.
And the closing evening of Lytham Competition 2023 on Sunday July 02 will see its greatest rock evening ever with a double headliner set from Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard.
Sizzling off the heels of the most important North American stadium tour of 2022 Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard will head to Lytham as one in all solely 4 UK dates to be introduced for his or her upcoming The World Tour.
They are going to be supported by Indie-Rock outfit VIVAS. Hailing from Def Leppard’s hometown of Sheffield, this four-piece are intent on bringing infectious power to the Indie Rock scene having offered out reveals throughout their 2022 tour.
Peter Taylor added: “We now have a mixture of British and American rock and pop legends and award-winning musicians. In 2022 we had our greatest ever Lytham Competition happening over 10 nights. For 2023 we return to our common 5 nights however they are going to be 5 enormous nights and we are able to’t wait.”
For extra info and to safe tickets go to www.lythamfestival.com
LYTHAM FESTIVAL 2023
Weds June 28 – Jamiroquai with assist from Jake Shears, Enjoyable Lovin’ Criminals & Stone Basis
Thurs June 29 – George Ezra with assist from Cat Burns, The Huge Moon & Kingfishr
Fri June 30 – Sting with particular visitor Blondie and assist from Kaiser Chiefs & Germein
Sat July 01 – Lionel Richie with assist from Gabrielle, Kim Wilde & Kevin Davy White
Solar July 02 – Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe with VIVAS
