Wet We Wet bring new intimate acoustic tour to Scarborough Spa - here's when
Wet Wet Wet have announced a UK acoustic tour of intimate shows where the majority of venues are located in places that they have never played during their 40-year career, including a date in Scarborough.
An Intimate Acoustic Evening with Wet Wet Wet will see founding member Graeme Clark, long-standing guitarist Graeme Duffin, and lead singer Kevin Simm, who joined the band in 2018, perform a full set of reworked classics by the band – with anecdote sfrom the band’s history thrown in.
The idea for taking the new show on the road developed from the band’s run of successful tours, which have seen them perform to more than 75,000 people at their headline shows alone during the last couple of years, plus countless more at festivals around the world.
Every night, the trio perform a short set of three songs acoustically, in what has become a fan-favourite highlight of their live show.
The band’s founder and vocalist was Marti Pellow who was with the band from 1982 until 1997 and again from their reformation in 2004 to his departure in 2017.
Bassist Graeme Clark said “We love nothing more than performing our songs live, so to have the chance of presenting them in a slightly different way is very inspiring.
“By showcasing our best-known songs acoustically in these intimate surroundings, it’ll let us strip them down to their bones and reimagine them.
“This personal look into our beloved music catalogue will give the audience a real insight into their favourite songs in a unique way that we’ve never been able to do before.”
Guitarist Graeme Duffin said: “Having dipped our toes back into the waters of stripped-down acoustic performance on the recent tour, which went down incredibly well, it seemed like a natural progression to extend the set, take it on the road and visit some new places.
“The songs take on a very different character acoustically, presenting a unique opportunity to engage with the audience on a more personal level. When the music is much more exposed, there are far less places to hide.”
The stripped-back approach reworks songs from the group’s back catalogue and has inspired a new studio album released on CD and limited-edition coloured vinyl to coincide with the tour.
Lead singer Kevin Simm said: “I’m really excited to be going out on this acoustic tour with Graeme and Graeme, performing these great songs in an intimate atmosphere which will be something different for us and also fans of the band.
“It’s been a lot of fun recording the songs in a stripped-back style and I can’t wait to perform them live that way too. We’ll be playing the hits of course, but in a way that people won’t get the chance to see too often.”
The Strings Attached album contains reimagined versions of Wet Wet Wet’s biggest songs, plus a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain which has become a live favourite.
The songs have been rearranged and recorded in an acoustic style for the release using a plethora of instrumentation including guitar, bass, drums, double bass, accordion, mandolin, tambourine etc. along with a string section on certain tracks.
The acoustic tour will offer fans a chance to see and hear the trio play Wet Wet Wet’s hit songs – including Sweet Little Mystery, Angel Eyes, Temptation, Sweet Surrender and Love Is All Around – in an intimate setting and as they’ve never been performed before.
The tour comes to Scarborough Spa on Sunday May 17.