Sophie Ellis Bextor is predicting lots of tears ahead of her 2021 tour.
After being forced off the road in 2020 amid the pandemic, the Take Me Home (A Girl Like Me) singer is looking forward to returning to her happy place and entertaining fans in person once again.
Discussing her May 2021 gigs during an interview with The Sun, she admits: “I’ll probably cry every night on stage… We just want to get back to live events. I think it will be emotional when we’re back.”
The singer is planning to perform classic tracks from her six studio albums plus cover versions she premiered during her Kitchen Disco Instagram Live series, including Crying at the Discotheque – the lead single from her latest greatest hits album, Songs From The Kitchen Disco
The set features all of the star’s most popular releases from her 20-year solo career – including Murder on the Dance Floor, Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer) and Bittersweet, plus covers including New Order’s True Faith and a new recording of her classic Spiller collaboration, Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love).
“I wanted to pay tribute to what the kitchen disco meant for us and it’s why I wanted to do the tour,” she says of the LP.
“For my family, the impact and the emotional importance of the Kitchen Disco will take a long time to unpick.”
The tour comes after Sophie became the first singer to be unveiled on the second season of The Masked Singer UK, during which she performed a cover of Dua Lipa’s Don’t Start Now under the guise of Alien.
In our review of Songs from the Kitchen Disco, Retro Pop called Sophie a “brilliant pop star and one of Britain’s premier songwriters,” noting that “20 years into her career, her music is as wonderful as ever”.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor will be touring the UK and Ireland from May 2021 – tickets are available here. Her greatest hits album, Songs from the Kitchen Disco, is out now.
