Hue & Cry + Roachford

Members pre-sale Thursday 23 October 10.00am
Tickets on general sale Friday 24 October 10.00am

80s icons Hue & Cry and Roachford have announced a co-headline UK tour for 2026, bringing a special show featuring full sets and full bands to Manchester next October.

Brothers Patrick and Gregory Kane formed Hue and Cry in 1984 and the duo made a huge impact with the release of their debut album ‘Seduced and Abandoned’ (1987) which featured their first top ten single ‘Labour of Love’. The follow up album ‘Remote’ continued the trend and produced the huge hits ‘Looking for Linda’ & ‘Violently’. Albums like ‘Stars Crash Down’, ‘Showtime’ and ‘Jazz Not Jazz’ ensured Hue and Cry’s continued successful run through the 90’s, whilst their 2005 appearances as finalists on ITV’s primetime show ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’, featuring their version of Beyonce’s ‘Crazy In Love’, thrust the band firmly back into the mainstream limelight.

Hue and Cry have sold more than two million records worldwide, released 15 studio albums and performed alongside some of the greatest artists in music history – appearing with U2, James Brown, Madonna, Al Green and Van Morrison.

The brothers will be honoured with the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2025 Scottish Music Awards in recognition of their career spanning across four decades.

Roachford has become one of the most compelling and consistent rock and soul artists the UK has produced, since ‘Cuddly Toy’ reached Number 4 in the charts in 1988. He has released 10 studio albums and several greatest hits collections, been sought-after as a songwriter by the likes of Michael Jackson, Joss Stone and Chaka Khan, and consistently toured on his own and with contemporaries including Terence Trent D’Arby and The Christians.

For the past nine years, he has been part of Mike + the Mechanics, recording with Mike Rutherford’s post-Genesis band and playing live with them across the world. In 2019, Roachford received an MBE for Services to Music.