BRIT Award winning singer/songwriter – JAMES BAY – is pleased to announce a special appearance at Worcester Racecourse this Summer.

Headlining the prestigious racing ground on Saturday 11 June 2022, this ‘Live After Racing’ fixture will include a full day at the races, before a euphoric headline set by the hit-maker behind the multi-million selling singles “Hold Back The River” and “Let It Go”, plus Top 5 albums ‘Chaos And The Calm’ and ‘Electric Light’. The show will also see Bay performing songs from his much-anticipated third album.

Tickets are available for presale next Wednesday (23rd February) @ 9AM for O2 customers, with general sale available the following Friday.

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For the best part of a decade, Hertfordshire-born singer-songwriter James Bay has proven himself to be one of the nation’s finest young singer/songwriters.

Releasing his platinum-certified ‘Chaos And The Calm’ (2014), Bay captured the hearts of the critics and the public alike, with his debut album signalling the way for an artist with a bright future. Featuring the gold-selling single “Hold Back The River” and triple-platinum “Let It Go”, Bay was soon nominated for dozens of awards, taking home two BRIT Awards, two Q Awards, and top honours at the Ivor Novello Awards and ECHO Awards, not to mention GRAMMY® nods in the categories of “Best New Artist,” “Best Rock Album,” and “Best Rock Song”.

Tallying over 3 billion streams to date, he has performed on Saturday Night Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Today Show, Good Morning America and more. He also notably dueted with icons such as Alicia Keys on The Voice and Mick Jagger while supporting The Rolling Stones at Twickenham Stadium in London. In addition to selling out shows on four continents, Epiphone honoured him with his own Limited-Edition James Bay Signature “1966” guitar.

Following the success of 2018’s ‘Electric Light’, he deconstructed his sound to its bare essentials on the ‘Oh My Messy Mind’ EP a year later. It yielded the hit “Peer Pressure” [feat. Julia Michaels], generating 131 million Spotify streams and receiving acclaim from Time, Rolling Stone, and Billboard. No stranger to small stages, Bay spent the majority of 2019 opening for Ed Sheeran on his record-breaking stadium run.

Spending the interim years taking part in the Save The Venues campaign (2020) with a fully livestreamed set as well as launching weekly free guitar lessons for fans on Instagram Live, Bay also spent a month recording in Nashville with powerhouse producer Dave Cobb (Lady Gaga, Sturgill Simpson, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton) and a group of A-list musicians including Nate Smith (Vulfpeck, Brittany Howard) and keyboardist Phil Chandler as he prepares his yet-to-be-released third album.

Most recently, James Bay embarked on an intimate tour for Independent Venue Week 2022 to express his gratitude to the grassroots music venues that made him, sharing new songs and stories each night.

Stepping-up to major stages once more this Summer, James Bay’s performance at Worcester Racecourse will be an unmissable opportunity to reacquaint with Bay’s anthemic back-catalogue as well as hear his long-awaited new material on the live stage.

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Tickets go on presale for O2 Customers on Wednesday 23rd February @ 9am
General sale tickets on-sale – Friday 25th February @ 9am

Tickets are priced at:
£35.00 Advance STBF – Adult (General Admission)
£25.00 Advance STBF – Children under 18’s (Under 5’s free admission)
Parking – £5.00

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One of the greatest songwriter, producer, performer and guitarists of all time – NILE RODGERS & CHIC – will be coming to Doncaster Racecourse this Summer.

With over five decades of classics at their fingertips, Nile & his exemplary live band will be firing up their classic hit machine for an evening of “Good Times” that’s guaranteed to make “Everybody Dance”.

Coming to the prestigious Yorkshire racecourse on Saturday 16th July 2022, this special ‘Live After Racing’ fixture will offer spectators a full day at the races, capped-off by an unforgettable headline set by one of the world’s most influential pop stars late into the evening.

Tickets are available for presale next Wednesday (9th February) @ 9AM for O2 customers, with general sale available the following Friday.

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Among music legends, Nile Rodgers is truly exceptional. He amplifies his legacy as a multiple GRAMMY-winning composer, producer, arranger and guitarist by constantly traversing new musical terrain and successfully expanding the boundaries of popular music. As the co-founder of CHIC and the Chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Rodgers pioneered a musical language that generated chart-topping hits like “Le Freak,” (the biggest selling single in the history of Atlantic Records) and sparked the advent of hip-hop with “Good Times”. Nile
transcends all styles of music across every generation with a body of work that’s garnered him inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Nile is also the co-founder and Chairman of the We are Family Foundation and also the recipient of their Humanitarian Award.

Currently, Nile serves as the first-ever Chief Creative Advisor for the incomparable Abbey Road Studios and he recently launched the critically acclaimed Apple Music 1’s “Deep Hidden Meaning Radio with Nile Rodgers”.

His unforgettable live performances with CHIC have been included in “festival best performances” at both Glastonbury and Coachella resulting in a BBC Music Awards nomination for “Best Live Performance”, and the LA Times stating “Nile Rodgers influence stretches all over Coachella, beaming the sound of a better future”.

Nile’s work in the CHIC Organization and his productions for artists like David Bowie, Diana Ross, and Madonna have sold over 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide while his trendsetting collaborations with Daft Punk, Avicii, Keith Urban, Disclosure, Sam Smith and Lady Gaga reflect the vanguard of contemporary music.

Sharing a little of that “festival moment“ magic with Doncaster this Summer, Nile Rodgers & CHIC will headline Doncaster Racecourse on Saturday 16th July 2022.

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TICKETS

Tickets go on presale for O2 Customers on Wednesday 9th February @ 9am
General sale tickets on-sale – Friday 11th February @ 9am

Adult tickets are priced at: £40 Advance STBF (Grandstand) or £50 Advance STBF (County Enclosure)
Children under 18’s are priced at: £25 Advance STBF
Under 5’s: free admission

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Longstanding UK indie icons – JAMES – are delighted to announce an outdoor show at Bath Racecourse this Spring.

Celebrating their 40th Anniversary this year, the Mancunian heroes will be bringing the enduring sounds of their back catalogue, plus highlights from their critically acclaimed new album ‘All The Colours of You’, to the West Country later in 2022.

Headlining the prestigious racecourse on Friday 3rd June 2022, this special ‘Live After Racing’ fixture will include a full day at the races, before a euphoric headline set by James late into the evening.

Tickets are available for presale next Wednesday (9th February) @ 9AM for O2 customers, with general sale available the following Friday.

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Since their breakthrough single in 1991, “Sit Down”, James have released 16 studio albums (ten of them hitting the UK Top 10), sold over 25 million albums worldwide, scored four UK Top 10 hits (inc. “Come Home”, “She’s A Star” and “Laid”) and performed countless headline shows & festivals across the world.

Releasing their most recent album in 2021, ‘All The Colours Of You’, the record arrived as one of the most fresh and festival-ready of their 40-year career. Recorded in part before the Covid pandemic struck, the album was produced by the Grammy award-winning Jacknife Lee (U2, REM, Taylor Swift, Snow Patrol, The Killers). On production duties with James for the first time, Lee bought a fresh approach to their sound, working remotely from his studio liaising with Tim (his Topanga Canyon neighbour) liaising with Jim in a daisy chain, reimagining their demos, and capturing the band in all their virtual glory.

The result is the sound of one of Britain’s best bands, deconstructed and reassembled by one of the world’s most renowned producers. A hit with fans and press alike, the album was praised by MOJO as “a late-period peak” and UNCUT as “an album that thrums with a sense of urgency both timely and slightly remarkable”.

Confirming the band’s eternal status as a huge live draw, the UK Winter arena tour for ‘All The Colours Of You’ saw James sell over 60,000 tickets, with the dates selling faster than any previous James tour yet. With the roar of the audiences still ringing in their ears, James are now limbering up for a headline slot at the capacious grounds of Bath Racecourse this Spring, where the band will be looking to reignite the jubilant scenes of those November and December shows once more.

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TICKETS

Tickets go on presale for O2 Customers on Wednesday 9th February @ 9am
General sale tickets on-sale – Friday 11th February @ 9am

Tickets are priced at:
£37.50 Advance STBF – Adult (General Admission)
£25.00 Advance STBF – Children under 18’s (Under 5’s free admission)

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One of the best loved British bands of the 21st Century – McFLY – will be coming to Surrey and Doncaster for huge outdoor shows next Summer.

Taking over the prestigious grounds of the Lingfield Park Resort on Saturday 4th June 2022 and Doncaster Racecourse on Saturday 13th August 2022, these special ‘Live After Racing’ fixtures will offer fans a full day at the races, capped-off by a headline set by Tom, Danny, Dougie and Harry as they blitz through the hits.

Tickets are available for presale next Wednesday (8th December) @ 9AM for O2 customers, with general sale available the following Friday.

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With seven UK number-one singles, six top-ten albums, seven arena tours and ten million records sold worldwide, McFly are without question one of the most significant British pop acts this millennium. Since hitting the big time as the youngest band ever to have a debut album go straight to number one — beating The Beatles’ long-standing record – the prodigiously talented four-piece have become one of the nation’s best-loved bands and major stars in their own right.

Outside of McFly Tom has become a bestselling children’s author; Danny a TV mainstay with his regular appearances as a coach on The Voice Kids; Dougie formed alternative-rock band INK and is a passionate environmental campaigner; and Strictly winner Harry is often seen presenting on The One Show sofa, as well as starring in the hit dance show Rip it Up.

In 2019 McFly announced their return to touring with a triumphant sold-out show at the O2 in November 2019, followed by a UK and Brazil Arena Tour due to happen in March and May 2020 (which were later postponed in light of global events). Finding new and innovative ways to connect with fans, the band overcame the obstacles of the pandemic to write, record, promote and release their sixth album ‘Young Dumb Thrills’ in 2020. Performances on Graham Norton, Britain’s Got Talent and Ant & Dec, as well as A List records across Radio 2, saw ‘Young Dumb Thrills’ enter the chart at #2, second only to the biggest selling album of the year from AC/DC.

Fast forward to the summer of 2021 and McFly could be seen up and down the country playing at an array of glorious Summer Festivals across the UK. Reacquainting fans with pop smashes such as “All About You”, “5 Colours in Her Hair”, “Shine A Light”, “Obviously”, “Star Girl”, and countless other hits from their glistening catalogue; the shows found a band in exhilarating form, with crowds jubilantly singing along to classics as well as embracing new tracks like “Happiness” and “Tonight Is The Night” with open arms.

As McFly extend their tour dates for ‘Young Dumb Thrills’ into 2022, fans at Lingfield Park Resort and Doncaster Racecourse can expect a spectacle of pure un-adulterated pop-punk fun, and maybe even the appearance of a giant pink teddy bear in their impressive stage set-up too…

McFLY WILL PLAY ‘LIVE AFTER RACING’ @ LINGFIELD PARK RESORT – SATURDAY 4 JUNE 2022 and DONCASTER RACECOURSE – SATURDAY 13 AUGUST 2022

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TICKETS
Tickets go on presale for O2 Customers on Wednesday 8th December @ 9am.
General sale tickets on-sale – Friday 10th December @ 9am.

Adult tickets are priced from: £40 Advance STBF
Children under 18’s are priced at: £25 Advance STBF
Under 5’s: free admission

Ska-pop royalty Madness are very pleased to announce a major outdoor show at Windsor Racecourse next year.

Extending their overwhelmingly popular ‘The Ladykillers Tour’ into the Summer of 2022, the original kings of Camden will be bringing their “House of Fun” to the prestigious racing ground for one of their infamously entertaining headline sets.

Promising a day stacked with some of the finest soulful and ska-tinged sounds to have emerged from London Town from the last four decades, attendees to 26th August event will also be treated to supporting performances from neo-soul innovators SOUL II SOUL, plus 9 piece Ska & Reggae trailblazers: THE DUALERS.

Additional acts will also be confirmed in due course.

Please note this is a standalone event with no racing taken place.

Tickets will be available to O2 customers for presale from 9AM on 8 December 2022.

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Madness are perhaps one of the most prominent and best-loved bands of the last 50 years. Formed in Camden Town, London in 1976, their journey since has taken them from ska-band upstarts to globally acclaimed superstars.

Finding initial success in the late 1970s and early ‘80s as frontrunners of the 2 Tone Ska revival, the band would soon go on to find universal fame through a string of 15 UK Top 10 charting singles, with their crowning glory the seminal UK No.1 “House Of Fun”.

With a trademark “nutty” sound and lyrics that capture the very essence of British life, cuts like “Baggy Trousers”, “One Step Beyond”, “Embarrassment”, “My Girl”, “Driving In My Car”, and “Our House” and countless others have transcended the generations and immortalised Madness as icons of popular culture.

A testament to their enduring popularity, Suggs and co. were invited to perform on top of Buckingham Palace as part of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations AND the London Olympics in 2012 to a global audience, while also setting the record for the biggest-ever viewing for the BBC’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast in 2018.

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of their landmark debut album ‘One Step Beyond’ last year, Madness remain one of the most exhilarating and entertaining prospects on record and the stage.

With a huge headline show at Windsor Racecourse now on the agenda for 2022, expect the finest music and plenty of madcap mayhem when the original “Nutty Boys” go one step beyond to make this an evening for the ages.

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Plus very special guests Soul II Soul, The Dualers and more to be announced.

Live @ Windsor Racecourse
Friday 26th August 2022

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Tickets will be available to O2 customers for presale on Wednesday 8th December @ 9am, and general sale on Friday 10th December @ 9am.
Tickets are priced at: £40.00 GA Standing STBF

Multi-platinum pop sensation – OLLY MURS – will be headlining a huge outdoor show at Newcastle Racecourse next summer.

Taking place on Saturday 23rd July 2022, this special ‘Live After Racing’ show will offer spectators a full day of races at the prestigious north-east arena, followed by a joyous live set by the nation’s favourite cheeky-chappy.

Rising to fame on the ‘X Factor’ in 2009, Olly has continued to win over the public ever since and has crafted four multi-platinum albums and produced 4 number 1 singles with total record sales exceeding 10 million. Having released 6 studio albums so far, these have all reached the upper echelons of the charts making Olly the most successful solo artist ever to come from the X Factor. A formidable performer, he has sold out arena tours across the UK and cemented himself as one of Britain’s very best live acts.

2021 has proved to be equally busy for Olly, who, alongside welcoming back live music by headlining numerous summer shows across the country, recently captained England in this year’s Soccer Aid. In lockdown, he managed an impressive body transformation, working closely with personal trainer Rob Solly, and sharing his fitness routine exclusively with Men’s Health. Currently working on new music to be shared next year, Olly is now sizing up a huge headline show at Newcastle Racecourse where he is hoping to bring the party to what promises to be a euphoric family day-out.

Speaking about the upcoming show, Olly Murs says:

I’ve had a fantastic summer this year finally getting back out on the road and playing music, something we’ve all been missing. You can’t get much better than an open-air concert on a summer’s evening – bring it on!

Tickets will be available for presale next Wednesday (22 Sept) via Ticketmaster, and for general sale the following Friday.

A wide array of luxury hospitality packages are also available, for further details please head to: https://www.newcastle-racecourse.co.uk

Immortal synth-pop sensations – THE HUMAN LEAGUE – will be headlining two huge outdoor shows at Uttoxeter Racecourse and Lingfield Park Resort next Summer.

Taking place on Saturday 14th May 2022 (Uttoxeter) and Saturday 6th August 2022 (Lingfield), these special ‘Live After Racing’ shows will offer spectators a full day of races at the prestigious arenas, followed by a set of wall-to-wall hits from one of pop’s most enduring electronic acts.

Pioneers of the British New Wave/Synth scene, The Human League dominated the airwaves and charts throughout the 80s with their dark yet stylish post punk electronica, which remains as fresh, current and highly influential today as it ever did.

Emerging from the infamous Sheffield scene of the time, it would be founding member Philip Oakey who would take the band on to major commercial success after recruiting female vocalists: Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley, all of whom remain in the group to this day. With a distinctive three-person vocal and a cutting-edge electronic sound at their disposal, The Human League would go on to release nine studio albums (five of which went Top 20) and 15 Top 20 singles throughout the 1980s and 1990s including “Mirror Man“, “(Keep Feeling) Fascination“, “The Lebanon“, “Human” (a US No. 1) and “Tell Me When“. Widely regarded as leaders of the second British Invasion of the US music market and, to this day they remain one of the most highly played bands on MTV worldwide and have sold more than 20 million records worldwide and counting.

2021 marks the 40th Anniversary of one of the most prominent releases in their catalogue: ‘DARE’. Along with the infamous: “Don’t You Want Me” (a single that made the 1981 Xmas No.1 slot and was top of the charts for 5 weeks), its other classic singles including “Love Action”, “The Sound Of The Crowd”, “Open Your Heart” and “The Things That Dreams Are Made Of”, would propel The Human League to international superstardom. Earning a Brit Award the following year, the band would continue to grace the top 10 for the next fifteen years and have experienced a resurgence in popularity and commercial success in every decade that has followed. Credited with giving birth to a whole new era in music, fashion, club-culture and beyond, this year The Human League are rightfully celebrating its landmark anniversary four decades on; with sell-out shows in some of the UK’s biggest venues a testament to its unwavering appeal.

Without doubt the music of The Human League has inspired generations of fans and when they headline these huge shows at Uttoxeter Racecourse and Lingfield Park Resort next Summer it will continue in that great tradition. Consistently touring and headlining contemporary festivals across the world since the turn of the century, the band have earned a reputation for one of the most exciting shows in the biz and this is guaranteed to be an unmissable fixture.

Tickets will be available for O2 presale next Wednesday (22 Sept) via Ticketmaster, and for general sale the following Friday. A wide array of luxury hospitality packages are also available, for further details please head to: https://www.uttoxeter-racecourse.co.uk and https://www.lingfieldpark.co.uk

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

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Twitter – https://twitter.com/humanleaguehq
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/humanleaguehq/?hl=en

JUDGE JULES has announced a huge live show accompanied by his full live band, and an opening set from HOWARD DONALD at Newcastle Racecourse on 26th June 2021.

One of the scene’s most best-known names for more than three decades, Judge Jules has never shied away from pushing the boundaries in dance music. In 2019, for the first time ever, audiences will be able to experience the iconic tracks that have defined his career through a ten-piece live band with Judge Jules at the helm. This is Judge Jules: Live.

Jules’s in-depth involvement in many of the recent wave of “classical” dance events, including Gatecrasher, Colours, Club Class and 2019’s Ministry of Sound tour, inspired the decision to take the impact and emotion of the classical shows, but refine the feeling with a wholly new take on live dance music.

With complete creative free rein, Jules curated every element of the performance. Each track has been bespoke reinvented and reworked in a style unique to this live show, featuring a full ten-piece band, with brass, percussion, drums, bass guitar, lead guitar, keyboard, singers, and of course Judge Jules himself. A 90-minute show from start to finish, the music has been selected to represent the breadth and scale of his career.

“There is something about music being played live that never fails to send shivers down your spine – it doesn’t matter what the genre is, hearing a track performed by live musicians on stage is something you cannot replicate in the studio, or even on the best nightclub environment. So, I decided to create my own bespoke versions of my all-time favourite records with a specially selected band. It’s taken a long time to put together, but finally we look forward to taking the “Judge Jules Live” tour on the road. This truly is a new take on the ‘live dance music’ phenomenon and the tour bus starts rolling shortly.” – Judge Jules

This is not a show to sit down for – combining the energy of specially-chosen outstanding musicians with his own inimitable presence behind the decks, Jules will take the audience on a tailor-made journey through dance music with vocals, hands-in-the-air moments and plenty of basslines that’ll take you right back to your very first rave.

With audiences demanding more from dance music and newfound focus on a visual as well as a sonic spectacle, Judge Jules Live is a chance for dance fans to lose themselves in the moment with the kind of experience that you just can’t replicate with a solitary DJ.

Due to the ongoing situation with regards to Covid-19 we have been working away behind the scenes to continue to deliver our Live After Racing schedule of events for Summer 2021.

Due to Covid-19 and the resulting amendments to the racing program, the Kaiser Chiefs event scheduled for Friday 4th June at Bath Racecourse has been rescheduled for Friday 30th July 2021 and Saturday 29th May at Ffos Las Racecourse has been rescheduled for Friday 27th August 2021. The event on Saturday 26th June at Doncaster Racecourse will go ahead as scheduled.

Everyone at Live After Racing would like to thank Kaiser Chiefs and their team for their help and support under these difficult circumstances and are very much looking forward to what is sure to be a night to remember.

Tickets for the original dates remain valid and refunds are available from point of purchase should customers be unable to attend the rearranged date.

Due to the ongoing situation with regards to Covid-19 we have been working away behind the scenes to continue to deliver our Live After Racing schedule of events for Summer 2021.

In response to the Government’s recent release of their road map and as large scale events are not permitted until after 21st June, the Tom Walker Live After Racing event at Lingfield Park Resort scheduled for Saturday 5th June can no longer take place.

We are however delighted to announce that this event will now be rescheduled to Saturday 21st August.

Everyone at Live After Racing would like to thank Tom and his team for their help and support under these difficult circumstances and are very much looking forward to what is sure to be a night to remember.

Tickets for the original date remain valid and refunds are available from point of purchase should customers be unable to attend the rearranged date.