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With the summer season over most gigs will move inside and we all hope that the virus will be under control. So, check your local weekly publications for any on-stage action. All info on this page was correct at the time of writing. WORDS RIK FOXX
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nly one international known name is scheduled during October with the UK post-punk duo SLEAFORD MODS headlining the six-band Canelaween night at the Torremolinos Plaza de Toros on October 31. There are a few Spanish acts playing this month, check conciertos.club/ malaga for details. Malaga’s Teatro Cervantes most interesting concert this month is Sevilla’s O SISTER! on the 9th who recreate the golden age of vocal jazz, the popular music in the American 1920s/30’s speakeasies during prohibition. Ticket info and other concerts: teatrocervantes.com An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert starts its Las Vegas residency on October 26 and already has bookings up until next April, and a biopic, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, is being penned by the team behind 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody movie. Also, an AMY WHINEHOUSE
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hologram tour is on the cards. MADONNA has signed a new publishing deal with Warner Music Group and will reissue most of her old albums in deluxe editions, also a docufilm, Madame X, is out via Paramount+ on October 8, following her 2019 tour for the album of the same name. On the same day Justin Bieber: Our World lands on Amazon Prime and will focus on the lead-up to the stage return for his first performance in three years on the rooftop of the Beverly Hilton on December 31, 2020. In August, he broke Spotify’s streaming records becoming its most listened to artist racking up 88.3 million hits. As a taster for next month’s Disney+ The Beatles: Get Back documentaries, a DVD, The Beatles And India, features ‘rare archival footage, recordings and photographs bringing alive the fascinating journey from their high octane celebrity lives to a remote Himalayan ashram in search of spiritual
bliss’ and is available from October 29. On the same day ED SHEERAN drops his new album, = (Equals) which features the recent UK number one singles Bad Habits and Visiting Hours. All artists are steering clear of that date except for the SPICE GIRLS who are releasing unheard songs on the 25th-anniversary edition of Spice. Other notables this month: on the 1st, TONY BENNETT, who recently retired due to his Alzheimer’s condition, teams up again with GAGA on Love For Sale, THE SPECIALS release Protest Songs 1924-2012 and Irish rock popsters THE SCRIPT are back with Tales From The Script. On the 8th, New Zealander LADYHAWKE lands with Time Flies plus SAM FENDER has Seventeen Going Under; COLDPLAY return with Music of The Spheres on the 15th and ELTON JOHN invites MILEY CYRUS, NICKI MINAJ, STEVIE WONDER and STEVIE NICKS among others for The Lockdown Sessions on the 22nd.
