Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott Derry and Donegal bound in 2023

Gifted and chart-topping musicians Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott will be Derry and Donegal bound next year as part of a tour of Ireland.
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The artists will perform on February 21, 2023 at The Millennium Forum in Derry.

Two days earlier on February 19 they will be performing at the Balor Arts Centre in Ballybofey.

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Tickets are set to go on sale this Friday, October 7 at 10am via www.ticketmaster.ie & www.millenniumforum.co.uk

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott are coming to Derry and Donegal.Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott are coming to Derry and Donegal.
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott are coming to Derry and Donegal.

The Derry and Donegal gigs are among five across Ireland next year as part of the tour, with the others in Dublin’s 3Arena, Galway’s Leisureland and Killarney’s Gleneagle INEC Arena.

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott’s new album ‘N.K-Pop’ is released on October 7.

They have already made two songs available from the album – the poignant ballad ‘Still’, which was described as ‘beautifully heartbreaking’ by Dawn French, and the gospel pop song ‘Too Much For One (Not Enough For Two)’.

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Paul & Jacqui’s previous album ‘Manchester Calling’ went straight to No 1 on its release in March ’20.

The Irish tour dates.The Irish tour dates.
The Irish tour dates.

Paul Heaton’s song-writing genius was recognised at the prestigious Ivor Awards 2022, where noted author/ radio DJ Stuart Maconie presented him with a long overdue gong for ‘Outstanding Song Collection’.

Heaton is one of the UK’s most successful songwriters with some 15 million album sales under his belt. He first came to prominence in the early 80s as front man of The Housemartins (the same group that gave us Norman ‘Fatboy Slim’ Cook).

The Housemartins released two albums ‘London 0 Hull 4’ (’86) and ‘The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death’ (’87).

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In ’88 Heaton formed The Beautiful South, who released 10 hugely successful albums - ‘Welcome To The Beautiful South’ (’89), Choke (’90), ‘0898 Beautiful South’ (’92), ‘Miaow’ (’94), ‘Blue Is The Colour’ (’96), ‘Quench’ (’98), ‘Painting It Red’ (2000), ‘Gaze’ (’03), ‘Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs’ (’04) and ‘Superbi’ (’06).

In 2001 Heaton took a break from The Beautiful South and released his first solo album ‘Fat Chance’. The Beautiful South called it a day in 2007 citing ‘musical similarities’. Jacqui Abbott was lead vocalist in The Beautiful South from ’94 to 2000 and she sang many of their signature hits including ‘Rotterdam’, ‘Perfect 10’, ‘Don’t Marry Her’ and ‘Dream A Little Dream’.

Paul Heaton went on to release two further solo albums: ‘The Cross-Eyed Rambler’ (’08) and ‘Acid Country’ (’10).

In 2011 Heaton wrote a musical called ‘The 8th’ based on the Seven Deadly Sins and asked Jacqui to sing one of the parts. They have since released four acclaimed albums as a duo: ‘What Have We Become’ (’14), ‘Wisdom, Laughter and Lines’ (’15), ‘Crooked Calypso’ (’17) and ‘Manchester Calling’ (’20). In 2019 Paul released a career spanning compilation of his biggest hits entitled ‘The Last King Of Pop’.

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2022 saw Heaton reach a significant birthday, which he celebrated in typically idiosyncratic style by putting £1,000 behind the bar of 60 carefully chosen pubs across the UK and Ireland so that fans could have a drink on him.

You can pre-order the new album from Paul & Jacqui at paulheatonandjacquiabbott.lnk.to/NKPop

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