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 Following their successful performance at Cirque Royal in Brussels in June 2023, The iconic cult band Sparks is returning to the same venue on Saturday, June 28th, 2025, for a not to be missed concert! General ticket sale starts this Friday, February 7th at 10AM at www.gracialive.be Most people, with even a passing acquaintance with Sparks, will know the basics by now. How Californian brothers Ron and Russell Mael, both students at UCLA, began making music together in the late Sixties, originally under the name Halfnelson. How their Top Of The Pops debut with ‘This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us’ stunned a generation and scored them an all-time hit.
How their career moved through many phases, including (but not limited to) art rock, glam, big band swing, electro-disco, new wave and synthpop, taking in eclectic collaborations with Todd Rundgren, Les Rita Mitsouko, Tony Visconti, Franz Ferdinand and Giorgio Moroder. And how the influence of “the greatest band you've never heard of”, or “your favourite band's favourite band”, has been recognised by successive generations of artists from Joy Division to The Smiths to Duran Duran to Depeche Mode to Blur to Bjork. Their influence on music cannot be overstated - as super-producer Jack Antonoff recently declared: “all pop music is re-arranged Sparks”. Once more Top-10 regulars, with studio albums Hippopotamus (2017) A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (2020), The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte (2023) reaching No.7 in the UK and all receiving global acclaim, the lauded career-spanning documentary film The Sparks Brothers, directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver) and released in 2021, brought an awareness of Sparks to parts they previously hadn't reached. In 2024 they released their 27th studio album, the original 2013 recordings of Annette performed by Ron and Russell, with the soprano Rebecca Sjöwall taking the parts of Ann and Annette. Continuing their love for film as an artform, Ron and Russell have written a new musical epic, titled X-Crucior, that is in development with Focus Features and will be directed by John Woo. Opmerkingen zijn gesloten.
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