The Chameleons

The Chameleons play Southampton on Thursday 1 October, one date in a seven-show winter tour across the UK. They're a post-punk band from Middleton, and this is their third major UK tour in three years, following a run of packed-house performances.

They're not coming alone. Special guest Lol Tolhurst, a founding member of The Cure, will be performing The Songs of The Cure, a set that revisits the early, seminal songs from The Cure's catalogue. Those are the tracks that helped shape the post-punk and goth-era sound before he left the band, so it's a look back at the early years rather than a career overview.

Between the two, the night sits firmly in that post-punk territory. The Chameleons bring their own Middleton-born sound, and Tolhurst brings the early Cure material that helped define the whole scene. It's a double bill that keeps to one side of the record, with the early Cure songs acting as a companion to the main set.

The Southampton date follows Glasgow on 20 October, with Leeds, Bristol and London also on the tour. The venue hasn't been announced yet, so keep an eye out for that.