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Recording commitments mean that EAST 17, one of the most celebrated and successful boy bands of all time, have had to reschedule their impending UK tour. The band who achieved 18 Top Twenty hits (including House Of Love, Deep and Christmas No.1 Stay Another Day) as well as four Top Ten albums and sales of over twenty million records, were due to kick off the UK leg of their tour in Glasgow on 15th July but will now commence proceedings in Brighton on 31st August. All tickets for the original shows remain valid. The new dates are as follows:
Wednesday 31st August BRIGHTON CONCORDE 2
Thursday 1st September BRISTOL O2 ACADEMY2
Friday 2nd September OXFORD O2 ACADEMY
Sunday 4th September LIVERPOOL O2 ACADEMY2
Monday 5th September GLASGOW O2 ABC2
Tuesday 6th September NEWCASTLE O2 ACADEMY
Thursday 8th September LONDON O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
Friday 9th September BIRMINGHAM O2 ACADEMY2
Saturday 10th September SHEFFIELD O2 ACADEMY2
Sunday 11 th September WATERFRONT IN NORWICH
East 17 were recently re-united under the auspices of principal songwriter Tony Mortimer who won an Ivor Novello Songwriter Award for Stay Another Day, the song he wrote for his brother Ollie who committed suicide. The current line-up includes original members Mortimer, John Hendy and Terry Caldwell, along with a charismatic new recruit, singer Blair Dreelan. The band recently signed to FOD Records and have a new single entitled Secret Of My Life due for release at the end of July. A new album is still being recorded and is being brought forward for September release.
In recent weeks T-Mobile have used the East 17 song House Of Love in a Royal Wedding spoof commercial and at the last count this had generated an astonishing twenty one million You Tube hits.
