Shed Seven - Shedcember X

Shed Seven are back at Victoria Hall on Tuesday 8 December, a one-night-only show in Stoke. It's part of Shedcember X, the tenth edition of their winter tour, which they've run as a tradition for a decade now. They describe it as a career-spanning night of warm beer, bright lights and familiar crowd faces.

It's a wide-reaching set. They're celebrating 30 years of A Maximum High and Chasing Rainbows, the two albums that put them on the map, but they're drawing from the whole run. The York band burst onto the Britpop scene in 1994 and have since put out four Top 20 albums and fifteen Top 40 singles, with 'Going For Gold', 'Chasing Rainbows', 'Disco Down' and 'On Standby' among them. In January 2024 they hit a new high with A Matter of Time, their first ever UK number one album, followed by Liquid Gold.

Opening the night are The Academic, an indie-rock band formed in Ireland by school friends Craig Fitzgerald, Dean Gavin, Matthew and Stephen Murtagh. Their 2018 debut Tales From The Backseat hit number one on the Irish album chart.

It's a single night at Victoria Hall on Bagnall Street in Hanley, with the show starting at 7:00 PM. Tickets start from £48.