One of the primary live bands of the 70s and 80s Sad Café will play at St George’s Hall in Bradford for one night only on Friday, September 6 – the only Yorkshire date of their tour.

Now led by long-time members Ian Wilson, Dave Irving, Ashley Mulford and Des Tong and augmented by new vocalists, Steve Whalley (ex-Slade), Sue Quin and Simon Waggott, Sad Café are the band that brought the hits Everyday Hurts, My Oh My, Strange Little Girl, Nothing Left Toulouse and I’m in Love Again along with the big U.S. hits La-Di-Da and Run Home Girl. For a few years in the late 70s and early 80s, the Manchester-based band may just have been the best live band on the planet.

Everyday Hurts sold 600,000 copies and reached number three in the UK charts.

The band reunited in 2009 to work on an album (Chronicles) with former lead singer Paul Young (also of Mike and the Mechanics) by completing recordings that he had been working on at the time he was taken ill. He died in July, 2000.

Rediscovering old friendships led Sad Café to reform with new additions to the band and to tour the UK in Autumn 2012 and now throughout 2013 in a show which brings together the hits of the past with the matured musicianship of the present and a new vocal sound.

Tickets priced £16 and £17.50 are available from Bradford Theatres box office on (01274) 432000 or online at bradford-theatres.co.uk.