Music fans can turn back the clock when some of the biggest names of the Seventies arrive at the First Direct Arena in Leeds.
The Osmonds, David Essex, Showaddywaddy and Les McKeown’s Legendary Bay City Rollers will all be hitting the stage at the £60m arena on June 21 next year.
Tickets for the show, entitled Once In A Lifetime - The Final Tour, go on sale this Friday, priced £42.50.
For more details, visit: www.firstdirectarena.com or ring 0844 248 1585.
Les McKeown will present the Bay City Rollers Story
Les McKeown
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Get up and close to Bay City Rollers’ Les Mckeown as he appears at the Camberley Theatre on Saturday October 19, at 7.30pm
Les McKeown became the lead singer of Scottish pop group the Bay City Rollers just a few days after his 18th birthday.
The band had already released their first single Keep On Dancing which achieved moderate success but they were in serious danger of becoming a one hit wonder.
However, with the addition of Les’s voice and personality, the Rollers were transformed into international superstars notching up nine UK top ten hits including two No1s and many reaching to the No1 spot all over the globe.
Massive hits such as Bye Bye Baby, Shang A Lang, Summer Love Sensation and Give A Little Love (to name just a few) propelled the band to world-wide superstardom and their trademark Scottish tartan was to be seen everywhere across the planet.
The Bay City Rollers Story is a celebration of those hectic days of hit songs, touring, TV shows and the behind the scenes pandemonium that followed the band everywhere they went.
Renewed, Les McKeown has come through the extreme highs and lows of life’s great road and he is here to tell us all about it.
All the hits songs are there and audiences are promised a fantastic night of fun and nostalgia as they take a trip back to those innocent days of growing up to the sounds of The Bay City Rollers.
Tickets cost £19.50, £17.50 Friends and concessions and are available from the box office on 01276 707 600.
World Scotch Pie Week got a little love to mark its 15th year when 1970s supergroup Bay City Rollers picked up a pie from the current champion’s shop.
Les McKeown visits Christie's
Lead singer Les McKeown and his band stocked up on pies from JB Christie in Airdrie. “We love a great pie and always stock up when we are on home ground. Touring non-stop around the world means we need to keep our strength up, so it has been great today to stock up on the best pie in the land and it really lives up to its reputation as a champ,” McKeown said.
Butchers and bakers from across Scotland will have the opportunity to be recognised for producing the highest-quality products if they enter the awards, which are supported by Scottish Bakers and the Scottish Federation of Meat Traders.
This year will be the first since the competition was created that a sweet treat round will be included, which will see judges decided the best apple pie.
Chief executive of Scottish Bakers Alan Clarke is delighted with the support that the Bay City Rollers are giving to the competition. He said: “They are an iconic Scottish Band and the Scotch Pie is an iconic Scottish product, we are delighted to announce that the band will join our group of professional judges this year to select the best pies in the land.”
Entry forms should be submitted by 1 November and products should be delivered to Carnegie Conference Centre, Halbeath Road, Dunfermline, KY11 8DY, between 9am and 11.30am on Wednesday, 13 November 2012.
