After live music was halted due to coronavirus restrictions, musicians are making up for it with hundreds of shows planned for later this year when, hopefully, lockdown rules will have eased sufficiently to allow crowds.With both new tours and rescheduled tours there is something for everyone, and with music nostalgia big business these days, a huge number of Eighties acts are heading out for a retro revival with shows in venues near Chesterfield.
Here are eight stars of the decade of shoulder pads, big phones and even bigger hair you can catch live this year…
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9. Wet Wet Wet
The quartet - now fronted by former Liberty X singer Kevin Simm after the departure of Marti Pellow - show to fame in the late 1980s with top-five songs such as Wishing I Was Lucky, Sweet Little Mystery, Angel Eyes (Home and Away) and the number one With a Little Help from My Friends. They bring their rescheduled Journey tour to Nottingham's on October 31. See wetwetwet.co.uk Photo: Wet Wet Wet