Fairground Attraction's highly anticipated and in-demand brand new album Beautiful Happening after their 34-year split alongside the most recent single ‘Learning To Swim’ has just been released. In celebration, Fairground Attraction performed their first UK Live date in 34 years in Wolverhampton on Saturday 28th September which also kicks off the start of their UK headline tour.
Fairground Attraction will be performing at The Barbican, York on Tuesday 1st October 2024. Fairground Attraction - (yorkbarbican.co.uk)
Fairground Attraction’s first single, ‘Perfect’, came out on 21 March, 1988 and quickly went to Number One on the UK charts and in countries all around the world. Their debut album, The First Of A Million Kisses, earned triple-platinum sales status and the group won Brit Awards for Best Single and Best Album of 1988 – they were the first band to win both these coveted awards in the same year; only Blur, Coldplay and Adele have done it since.
While ‘Perfect’ has gone on to become regarded as a genuine pop classic, Fairground Attraction imploded on the first day of recording what should have been their second album, leaving fans, and the band themselves, wondering what might have been had they been able to continue. Founding members, vocalist Eddi Reader and songwriter/guitarist Mark Nevin went on to have varied and successful careers but, like an annoying mosquito, the ’what ifs’ persisted for 35 long years.
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