SOFT Cell frontman Marc Almond is to undertake a 17-date orchestral tour this autumn, performing songs from his 36-year career, to accompany his upcoming new album Shadows And Reflections.
The tour and album will feature new orchestral arrangements of Almond's hits, iconic torch songs, and Sixties' orchestral pop, including songs by Billy Fury, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, David Bowie and Burt Bacharach.
The tour will continue the 60th birthday celebrations for the synth pop pioneer, following his top ten compilation album Hits And Pieces and his spring tour that visited York Barbican on March 26.
Almond found fame in the Leeds synth pop duo Soft Cell with David Ball in the early 1980s with Soft Cell and has accrued 30 million record sales in a long-running solo career. Last July, in a forerunner to this autumn's tour, he celebrated his love of 20th century torch songs of lost and unrequited love in An Evening With Marc Almond with the Leeds College of Music Contemporary Orchestra and Pop Choir at Leeds Town Hall, where they also performed orchestral versions of his biggest hits.
His tour will take in Leeds Town Hall on October 10 and Bridlington Spa on November 3. Tickets are on sale at marcalmond.co.uk
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