{"id":533364,"date":"2026-04-16T02:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533364\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:49:11","slug":"wet-wet-wet-to-bring-40th-anniversary-tour-to-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533364\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet Wet Wet to bring 40th anniversary tour to Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The British pop group will perform at Symphony Hall on Friday, October 15, 2027 as part of a 40-date UK tour celebrating four decades of their debut album, Popped In Souled Out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The multi-platinum record, released in 1987, spent more than 70 weeks on the UK Albums Chart and featured hit singles including Wishing I Was Lucky, Sweet Little Mystery, Angel Eyes, and Temptation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The band will perform tracks from the album alongside a selection of their best-known hits, which include chart-topping singles With A Little Help From My Friends, Goodnight Girl, and their cover of Love Is All Around.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The tour aims to honour both Wet Wet Wet&#8217;s beginnings and their continued success over the years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The current line-up features founding member Graeme Clark, long-time guitarist Graeme Duffin, and lead vocalist Kevin Simm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Clark said: &#8220;When we made Popped In Souled Out, I was just a young guy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Forty years later, those songs have taken on a life of their own, and this tour is about celebrating where it all began without forgetting what followed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It\u2019ll feel like stepping back into those original PISO shoes \u2013 only now with a lifetime of experience and with an audience who\u2019ve been with us through every twist and turn.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Simm said: &#8220;I\u2019m really excited to be going back out on tour in 2027 and celebrating 40 years of Popped In Souled Out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It\u2019s an absolute honour and a privilege as always to sing these iconic and timeless songs, and to perform them in so many venues across the UK to so many fans of the band is really a dream come true.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Duffin said: &#8220;I&#8217;d have been gobsmacked if anyone had told me 40 years ago that the tracks on Popped In Souled Out would still be loved by so many and that I&#8217;d still be performing them with the band after all that time.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tickets go on sale from 10am on Friday, April 17 via Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British pop group will perform at Symphony Hall on Friday, October 15, 2027 as part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-533364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}