Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott have announced they will perform in the Gleneagle INEC Arena on February 24 next and tickets will be available this Friday at 10.00am from Ticketmaster.
Their new album N.K-Pop will also be released on Friday and they have already made two songs available from the album – the poignant ballad Still and the gospel pop song Too Much For One.
Paul and Jacqui’s previous album Manchester Calling went straight to number one on its release in March 2020.
Paul Heaton’s songwriting 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 1980’s as frontman of The Housemartins – the same group that featured Norman ‘Fatboy Slim’ Cook.
In 1988 Heaton formed The Beautiful South who released 10 hugely successful albums and in 2001 he took a break from and released his first solo album Fat Chance before The Beautiful South called it a day in 2007.
Jacqui Abbott was lead vocalist in The Beautiful South from 1994 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, wrote a musical and he and Jacqui have since released four acclaimed albums as a duo.
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 including Courtney’s Bar in Killarney – so that fans could have a drink on him.
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