There is big excitement at news that Sophie Ellis-Bextor is to headline this summer’s Mouth of the Tyne Festival in North Tyneside..
The Murder on the Dancefloor star will take top slot on the Sunday finale of the July 7-10 event which is making a return to Tynemouth following last year's postponement due to Covid. Tickets will go on sale this Thursday for her outdoor gig where she will be joined by singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner who shot to prominence following the release of his debut album Hand Built by Robots - a double platinum success - in 2007.
Ellis-Bextor meanwhile has been at the top of her game since her own solo debut album Read My Lips in 2001 which sold more than two million copies worldwide. It was her performance as a vocalist on Spiller's number one mega-hit Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) followed by Murder on the Dancefloor that made her name and she has continued to keep fans happy, including during lockdown when she produced videos, recorded by her husband, showing her performing Kitchen Discos at home with her five sons, which were viewed by an international audience of around 40 million.
