MUSIC and style icon Grace Jones turned up the heat in the sun-soaked Piece Hall courtyard with a spectacular show in the historic venue.
A dramatic stage presence in a gold skull mask trimmed with black feathers, the New York disco queen thrilled the crowd at the Halifax venue last night, in this highlight of the Piece Hall summer of concerts.
Bringing Studio 54 vibe to this corner of West Yorkshire, Miss Jones's slick set delivered crowd favourites Pull Up To The Bumper, Nightclubbing, Slave To The Rhythm, Private Life and Love Is The Drug, and fans kept the shape-shifting star on stage for an a capella rendition of La Vie en Rose.
Getting the evening under was a cracking opening set by Stone Foundation.
TK Maxx presents Live at The Piece Hall 2024 continues tonight (Sunday, June 23) with Bryan Adams, Placebo on Tuesday, Air on Wednesday, Michael Kiwanuka on Thursday and Underworld seeing in the weekend on Friday night.
Later in the month, acclaimed singer-songwriter Rae Morris will join her good friend Tom Odell when he headlines at The Piece Hall.
BRIT Award winner Odell heads to the stage on Sunday, June 30 and opening the show will be Rae Morris. A well talent well-known in her native North West, Morris signed her first management deal aged just 17.
Following a string of EPs, plus collaborations with Bombay Bicycle Club and Kaytranada, she received a prestigious BBC Sound Of nomination in January 2015 and scored a Top 10 album the same month with her tender debut, Unguarded. It was followed up by her second Top 20 LP Somone Out There. Third album Rachel@Fairyland, "both a homecoming and a rebirth", wowed both fans and critics.
Odell and Morris have appeared together before, perhaps most memorably when they performed a sensational duet of Odell’s Half As Good As You on TV.
With six Top 10 albums to date, including chart-topping debut Long Way Down, which included the hits Another Love, Can't Preened, Hold Me, Grow Old With Me and I Know, Odell is one of the UK’s most beloved performers.
A winner of BRIT and Ivor Novello Awards, his decade-long impressive career, has notched up four billion career streams.
TK Maxx presents Live at The Piece Hall 2024 has smashed box office records with more than 170,000 tickets already sold for this summer’s shows.
Here's the rest of the sensational summer line-up:
JUNE 23: Bryan Adams with Cassyette and Vivas
JUNE 25: Placebo with Friedberg
JUNE 26: Air
JUNE 27: Michael Kiwanuka with Joel Culpepper
JUNE 28: Underworld with Ela Minus
JUNE 30: Tom Odell with Rae Morris
JULY 7: Rick Astley with Lightning Seeds
JULY 9: Loyle Carner with Children of Zeus
JULY 12: Tom Jones with Germein and Storry
JULY 13: Idles with Springs and Angelica Garcia
JULY 27: Ministry of Sound with Ellie Sax & Friends - Ibiza Anthems
JULY 31: Bill Bailey
AUG 1: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds with Andrew Cushin
AUG 2: Richard Ashcroft with Apollo Junction
AUG 3: The Stranglers with Buzzcocks
AUG 8: Jess Glynne with Issey Cross and The Mercians
AUG 9: Korn with Loathe
AUG 10: Mc Fly with State of Error
AUG 13: Status Quo with The Alarm
AUG 18: Mc Fly with Noahfinnce
AUG 20: PJ Harvey with Mica Levi
AUG 21: Pixies with The Pale White
AUG 22: The Streets with Billy Nomates
AUG 23: Biffy Clyro with Witch Fever
AUG 24: Fatboy Slim
AUG 25: Jungle
AUG 26: Cian Ducrot
* For tickets go to ticketmaster.co.uk
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