UK festival touring huge 90s and 00s bands over Christmas period

It’s decidedly everyone’s 90s and 00s epoch astatine the moment, and there’s present a North East festival that’s touring immoderate of the biggest names from the aureate popular play – erstwhile Tamagotchis were a must, and iPods a given.

Kubix On Tour volition spot names including the Vengaboys, East 17, and Five connected the four-date line-up which is touring Leeds, Hull, Newcastle and Aberdeen to get nostalgia lovers successful the festive tone this December.

Kicking disconnected successful Newcastle’s Utilita Arena connected December 14, the enactment is heading to the P&J Arena successful Aberdeen connected December 20, Leeds’ First Direct Arena connected December 21 and Connexin Live Arena successful Hull connected December 22.

The line-up varies from nighttime to night, truthful marque definite you cheque retired precisely who volition beryllium performing earlier you book. Tickets are priced from £42 and are disposable now.

These dates follows the festival’s summertime series, but this clip it volition beryllium an indoor matter – promising agleam lights, lasers, and bangers – truthful you tin permission the scarves and muddy boots astatine home.

The Vengaboys are inactive thriving since hopping onto the country successful 1997 arsenic the wildest Euro-tastic radical ever, arsenic they were down immoderate of the decade’s biggest earworms including Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom! and We Like To Party.

Other names connected the lineup see 911, N Trance, 2 Unlimited, and Alice Deejay.

Five were 1 of the biggest bands of that aureate popular era, having won the champion popular Brit grant successful 2000 with their bangers including Everybody Get Up, Slam Dunk (Da Funk), Let’s Dance, and Keep connected Movin’.

Original members Sean Conlan, Ritchie Neville and Scot Robinson are inactive going aft forming successful 1997, but 2 person since departed.

Meanwhile, East 17 person soundtracked galore Christmasses with their festive classical Stay Another Day – yep, that’s the euphony video with achromatic fur jackets, fake show, and heavy camera stares.

East 17 were formed successful 1991 with the archetypal enactment up of Tony Mortimer, Brian Harvey, John Hendy, and Terry Coldwell.

As of 2020, the radical consists of Coldwell – the lone remaining archetypal subordinate – Robbie Craig and Joe Livermore.

The Christmas deed was not written with the volition of being a festive favourite, but it’s really astir grief.

Written by Tony following the decease by termination of his brother Ollie, Terry told Metro in a 2022 interrogation helium inactive receives ‘loads of messages’ each twelvemonth saying the opus has been played astatine someone’s funeral.

‘We recorded the demo and past it went to our producers… and they stuck successful these tubular bells and made it each Christmassy,’ helium said.

‘We got it backmost and were all, “Wow!” No 1 thought it would beryllium a monolithic Christmas deed astatine the time, though.’

Meanwhile, bandmate Brian dropped retired of the limelight aft helium ate excessively galore overgarment potatoes, fell retired of his car and ran himself over.

He was trying to beryllium sick retired of the doorway erstwhile helium enactment his ft connected the state alternatively of the brakes, and ended up rolling nether his car.

Brian crushed his pelvis successful six places, broke ribs, punctured his lungs and was successful a coma for respective weeks.

‘I had conscionable been stuffing my look with a load of overgarment potatoes and I felt sick, truthful I opened my car doorway to beryllium sick,’ the vocalist explained astatine the time.

‘Instead of putting my ft connected the brake, I enactment it connected the accelerator and it flew back. I indispensable person deed 4 oregon 5 parked cars.’

Buy tickets for £42 via www.kubixfestival.co.uk.

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