Fly Me To The Moon - The Story of Swing

Gareth John and the SOS Big Band are at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre on Saturday 27 February 2027, with Fly Me To The Moon - The Story of Swing running through the decades of swing and big band music. It's a single-night staging, so this is the only time they'll be playing it in Eastbourne.

John leads the night as both vocalist and trumpet player, and he's not a newcomer to the stage. He's an award-winning singer and a world-class trumpet player, known for his showmanship and for having shared the stage with household names like The Beautiful South and The Specials. The SOS Big Band provides the full sound behind him, so it's a proper big band setup rather than a smaller ensemble.

The set runs from the classic hits of The Rat Pack — Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr — right through to more modern crooners like Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Matt Goss, Paul Anka and Harry Connick Jr. It's billed as taking audiences from Basie to Bublé, and that's a fair summary of the ground it covers: the early big band era and the mid-century crooners on one end, and the voices that've kept the style going into the 21st century on the other. The whole thing is delivered with the full sound of the SOS Big Band.

It starts at 7:30 pm at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre, 106-114 Seaside Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 3PF, and tickets are £27.50.