Tomorrow, Thursday 22 October, The Chameleons bring their post-punk sound to The Prospect Building on Feeder Road, in the north-east of Bristol. The Manchester band formed in Middleton in 1981 and made three studio albums in the 1980s, Script of the Bridge, What Does Anything Mean? Basically! and Strange Times, before splitting up in 1987. They came back in 2000 and released a few more records before stopping again in 2003. Since returning with Where Are You? in 2024, they have been recording again, and their latest album, Arctic Moon, came out on Metropolis Records in September 2025. It is their first full-length studio record in over two decades.
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The set mixes older songs with material from Arctic Moon, which includes tracks such as "Lady Strange", "Magnolia" and the long "David Bowie Takes My Hand". The current line-up has Vox (Mark Burgess) on vocals and bass, Reg Smithies and Stephen Rice on guitar, Todd Demma on drums and a keyboard player. The night also has a special guest. Lol Tolhurst, a founding member of The Cure who left the band in 1989, will be playing a set of early and seminal songs from The Cure's catalogue under the title "The Songs of The Cure".
Doors open at 19:00 and the show finishes at 23:00. General Admission standing tickets cost £37.76 including fees, with a face value of around £28.60, and each customer can buy up to six. The Prospect Building is a purpose-built cultural space with two rooms: the Main Room, which holds up to 3,000 people, and the smaller Crane, which takes up to 1,300. For this show, the venue offers a fast-track queuing system for disabled guests, a wheelchair-accessible viewing area and early entry through the Courtyard. Free tickets for carers are available on request.
The Bristol date is one of five UK shows in October, which run from Glasgow on 20 October through Leeds, Bristol and London's KOKO to Southampton's Engine Rooms on 24 October. The band has played Bristol before, most recently at Trinity in November 2025, so the city is already familiar territory for them. Tickets are available through the listings on Gigantic, and the venue's own page carries the full details of the evening.
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21 October 2026
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