Foster & Allen Celebrating 50 years, Regent Centre, Christchurch
CELEBRATING 50 years in the music industry, Foster & Allen will play a golden anniversary concert at Christchurch’s Regent Centre on Saturday 2nd November.
The popular easy-listening duo have released almost 50 albums together, and have worked with many other musicians ranging from Irish choirs to X Factor contestants.
During the celebration concert, the duo will perform hit singles including Bunch of Thyme, Old Flames, Maggie, After All These Years, We Owe it All to You, I Will Love You All My Life, and Just for Old Time’s Sake. They will also perform new recordings from their latest album We’ll Meet Again.
The story of Foster & Allen began in the 1970s when Mick Foster and Tony Allen were playing in country music bands around Ireland. In 1975 they formed a small group and travelled over to the UK to work the Irish music venues on a short tour.
Mick and Tony then decided to work together as a duo, playing easy listening music with a touch of traditional Irish instrumentals. When their UK tour ended they decided to let the band return to Ireland while they stayed behind to try out the duo on the public.
They played several venues in London and received positive feedback, so Foster & Allen was formed. Their first single, The Rambles of Spring, was well received in Ireland. Their first top-selling single in Ireland was A Bunch of Thyme, which was released in 1978. It stayed on the Irish charts for 40 weeks and was released in the UK in 1982.
Mick Foster said: “From the opening title track, the evergreen, We’ll Meet Again, to our rendition of popular classics such as Grace, The Cliffs of Dooneen, and Cotton Fields Back Home, Foster & Allen are well and truly back in stride.”
Foster & Allen 50 Years of Hits will be at Christchurch’s Regent Centre on Saturday 2nd November at 7.30pm. Tickets are £29 each. For information and bookings visit regentcentre.co.uk or call the box office on 01202 499199.
For your chance to win a pair of tickets in this week’s What’s On competition, pick up your A&T this coming Friday.
