BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A British rock band that was among the most commercially successful of the 1990s will perform at Wind Creek Event Center, it has been announced.
Bush, whose 1994 debut album “Sixteen Stone” sold six-times platinum and which sold 10 million copies of its first three albums, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20.
Tickets, at $55 for general admission standing and $95 for seated wings, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 5 at the event center website and at the box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.
Bush’s debut disc peaked at No. 4 on the overall chart and produced five Top 5 alternative hits: “Glycerine” and “Comedown,” which both hit No. 1; the No. 2 hit “Everything Zen”; and “Little Things” and “Machinehead,” both of which hit No. 4.
Continued success
The group’s sophomore disc, 1996’s “Razorblade Suitcase,” went three times platinum and topped the overall albums chart and produced two more alternative hits: the No. 1 “Swallowed” and the No. 2 “Greedy Fly.” A 1997 compilation album, “Deconstructed,” also sold gold.
It won the American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Group in 1998, and also that year was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance for “Swallowed.”
In all, Bush has had 17 songs hit Top 30 on various charts.
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Its third album, 1999’s “The Science of Things,” went platinum and peaked at No. 11, and added two more Top 5 alternative hits: the chart-topping “The Chemicals Between Us” and No. 4 “Letting the Cables Sleep.”
Bush disbanded in 2002, but vocalist/rhythm guitarist Gavin Rossdale and drummer Robin Goodridge reformed in 2010 and in 2011 released the album “The Sea of Memories,” which included the No. 1 alternative hit “The Sound of Winter.”
It has released five albums since. The latest, “I Beat Loneliness,” released July 18. It did not chart in the United States.
Goodridge left the band in 2019, leaving Rossdale as the only original member.
In all, Bush has had 17 songs hit Top 30 on various charts.
Bush also played at the event center, then called Sands Bethlehem Event Center, in 2017.
Bush headlined at Musikfest in 2016, and also played the Allentown Fair grandstand with Live in 2019.
The band sold out Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena in 1996.