To celebrate next year’s 50th anniversary of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells , the multi-million-selling and multi-award-winning album will be performed live in concert for a celebratory UK tour, which will include a date on Tyneside.
Part of the fabric of popular culture, Tubular Bells is well-known as an integral section of the soundtrack to the horror film The Exorcist . Its legacy was cemented with Oldfield’s performance of the album’s main theme at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, one of the rare performances of the project he has given.
Tubular Bells: The 50th Anniversary Celebration will feature an expansive live group, conducted and arranged by Oldfield’s long-term collaborator Robin Smith. It will see Tubular Bells performed in full, along with further Oldfield compositions, touring across the UK and beginning at Cardiff’s St David’s Hall on February 3, right through until the end of March. The show stops off in our region at The Sage Gateshead on February 16, 2023.
