Scissor Sisters: US pop icons heading to Birmingham on reunion tour

The flamboyant pop-rockers shall be heading to Birmingham, set to carry out at The Utilita Enviornment on Could 25, 2025.

It is going to be the primary time in historical past that the trio of Jake Shears, Scott ‘Babydaddy’ Hoffman and Del Marquis will carry out the group’s debut self-titled album in full, in celebration of it’s twentieth anniversary.

The band has been on an indefinite hiatus since 2012 after they instructed a London viewers at Camden Roundhouse they have been going “on a pause”.

The group have mentioned that Ana Matronic, whose actual title is Ana Lynch, has “determined to not be a part of the tour as she has different initiatives she is specializing in proper now”, and one other singer shall be introduced at a later stage.

Talking on this announcement, Del Marquis mentioned: “We’ve spent loads of time collectively fascinated with what we are able to add to our present that isn’t a ‘alternative’ for Ana in any approach.

 “She’s a part of the spirit of this band and we wish to honour that.”

Jake Shears added: “It’s the twentieth anniversary of our debut album, so it actually seems like the correct time to revisit all the extraordinary pleasure of that second.

“I believe the impetus for this reunion was actually a YouTube screening of Scissor Sisters: Stay at The O2 that occurred throughout lockdown.

“I don’t assume I’d seen that present because it was filmed in 2007, however we have been all form of shocked by how nice it was.

“And chatting with followers through the screening actually introduced again what a particular second it was for all of us.”

The band, identified for hits corresponding to ‘I Can’t Determine’ and ‘I Don’t Really feel Like Dancin’ ’ have mentioned that many fan-favourites may even be on the set listing.

Babydaddy mentioned: “There’s one thing actually particular about us being a homosexual band, a queer band, who actually pushed into the mainstream with that album.

“We wish to revisit that as a result of there weren’t as many queer acts breaking by means of in that approach 20 years in the past.

“We do acknowledge that we did one thing fairly distinctive again then simply by placing ourselves on the market as queer individuals.

“We put queer tradition within the mainstream at a time when there wasn’t a lot of it there.”

They may kick off their tour in Nottingham on Could 16, earlier than heading to Glasgow, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Manchester, London, Leeds, Belfast and Dublin, in addition to Birmingham.

Tickets will go on sale subsequent Friday, November 8, at 9am.