Hue And Cry, one of the 1980s’ most formative soul pop groups, have announced plans to celebrate their 40th anniversary throughout 2024, starting on Friday, January 12th. The ‘Labours Of Love’ celebration is a series of 12 releases in the form of 4-track EPs released on streaming platforms every 2nd Friday of the month, and a documentary series via YouTube releasing every 4th Friday of the month.
The ‘Labours Of Love’ series launches with the first EP and documentary episode titled Beginnings, which covers the period of 1984 – 1985. The inaugural EP includes 4 previously unheard demos of Close The Door, Love In Word, Dangerous Wreck, and I Refuse, whilst the first in the YouTube documentary series will look at how their beginnings in grey, workaday mid-80s Glasgow and how the core musical “DNA” for Hue And Cry was captured in early songs and persists right to the present.
The years’ worth of content is a backstage pass to every era of Hue And Cry; one for fans, collectors, historians, geeks, and the inquisitively minded. “Well doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?” comments Pat Kane. “Thanks to my brother Gregory’s careful & patient curation of thousands of items from our musical past, we can bring music lovers a panorama of 40 years of our creativity, in pop, soul, jazz, media, videos and much else. It’s an intriguing, looking over four decades, how much you change and how much you stay the same… Maybe listeners will have the same kind of rich memory trip as Gregory and I got, as we pulled this together.”
The documentary series, filmed, directed and produced by Greg, consists of 12×5 minute episodes that will reveal curios, photographs, videos, memorabilia, and lost footage, whilst the brothers talk through their experiences, as well as record their reactions looking at and listening to archived materials they re-discovered as part of the process of accumulating this archive.
40th Anniversary Full Band Tour Dates for 2024 (tickets via https://hueandcry.co.uk/live/)
10 October Aberdeen The Tivoli Theatre
11 October Hamilton The Town House
12 October Edinburgh The Queen’s Hall
17 October Greenock Beacon Arts Centre
18 October Stirling The Albert Halls
19 October Dundee Whitehall Theatre
24 October Perth Concert Hall
25 October Glasgow Pavilion Theatre (Sold Out)
26 October Glasgow Pavilion Theatre
01 November Gateshead Glasshouse Sage2 (Sold Out)
02 November Cardiff Tramshed
07 November Manchester RNCM Theatre
08 November Birmingham Town Hall
09 November London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
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