Legendary musician Nile Rodgers and his band Chic have announced a very exciting UK tour set for next summer. The disco pioneers will be performing 5 shows across the UK next year, kicking off their tour in June 2024.
Rodgers co-founded the group Chic with Bernard Edwards in the late 70’s and has since gone on to write, produce and perform on records that have sold more than 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide.
“Thrilled to announce we’re bringing the ‘Good Times’ back across England and Wales in 2024!” Rodgers shared in a social post on October 23. “Mark your calendars because we’re gonna light up the night, celebrate life, and dance like there’s no tomorrow.”
Thrilled to announce we’re bringing the ‘Good Times’ back across England and Wales in 2024! Mark your calendars because we’re gonna light up the night, celebrate life, and dance like there’s no tomorrow.
Tickets are on sale 9am Friday 27th October at https://t.co/JR5Yx4J5oA
— Nile Rodgers (@nilerodgers) October 23, 2023
In addition to Nile Rodgers and Chic, British Pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor and viral Pop band Deco will be supporting on the whole tour.
I’m so excited to announce that my band and I will be joining @nilerodgers and Chic as special guests on their Summer 2024 tour Ticket info: https://t.co/khh0P3yHW0 pic.twitter.com/ywUSdqkcn2
— Sophie Ellis-Bextor (@SophieEB) October 23, 2023
General sale tickets will become available this Friday (October 27th) at 9am BST. You can purchase tickets here. Presale tickets for all dates excluding July 13th (Dreamland, Margate) are available now and can be purchased here.
In other Nile Rodgers news, the musician recently featured on British New Wave band Duran Duran’s latest single “Black Moonlight”. This collaboration is not the first time Rodgers and Duran Duran have worked together, as the Chic co-founder also produced the “Hungry Like The Wolf” band’s 1986 album Notorious. When speaking of the collaboration, Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes said “Nile Rogers is a force of nature. When we get into a room, we start playing, and magic happens. Nile always says that CHIC is his first band, and Duran Duran is his second.”
Moreover, the band’s frontman Simon Le Bon added “‘Black Moonlight’ is this classic Duran Duran-Nile Rodgers collaboration. When Nile started playing his guitar in the studio, he really inspired everyone with his riff, and the song just kind of wrote itself.”
You can find dates for the upcoming Nile Rodgers and Chic 2024 UK tour below.
Tour dates:
16/06/2024 – The Piece Hall – Halifax
23/06 – Southampton Summer Session – Southampton
07/07 – Bedford Park – Bedford
11/07 – Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod – Llangollen
13/07 – Dreamland – Margate
