Wet Wet Wet celebrate 40th anniversary of iconic debut album with UK tour including Blackpool Opera House date
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“I’m really excited to be going back out on tour.”
Wet Wet Wet will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their iconic debut album with a 2027 UK tour, including a date at Blackpool Opera House.
The band will perform at the Blackpool venue on Friday, February 26, as part of more than 40 shows across two UK touring runs in February and October 2027. The tour will celebrate Popped In Souled Out, the 1987 album that introduced Wet Wet Wet to a national and global audience.
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The record reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and featured hit singles including “Wishing I Was Lucky”, “Sweet Little Mystery”, “Angel Eyes” and “Temptation”. It went multi-platinum in the UK and spent more than 70 weeks on the UK albums chart.
The album helped establish Wet Wet Wet as one of Britain’s key acts of the late 1980s, while also breaking into the Billboard Charts in the USA. The band will perform songs from the debut album alongside hits from throughout their career, including the number one singles “With A Little Help From My Friends”, “Goodnight Girl” and “Love Is All Around”.
Wet Wet Wet’s current line-up features founding member Graeme Clark, long-standing guitarist Graeme Duffin and lead vocalist Kevin Simm. Special guests on selected dates will include Roachford, Nick Heyward, Rebecca Ferguson, Heather Small, Johnny Hates Jazz, The Christians and The South.
Graeme Clark said: “When we made Popped In Souled Out, I was just a young guy. Forty years later, those songs have taken on a life of their own, and this tour is about celebrating where it all began without forgetting what followed.
“It’ll feel like stepping back into those original PISO shoes - only now with a lifetime of experience and with an audience who’ve been with us through every twist and turn.”
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Kevin Simm said: “I’m really excited to be going back out on tour in 2027 and celebrating 40 years of Popped In Souled Out. It’s an absolute honour and a privilege as always to sing these iconic and timeless songs, and to perform them in so many venues across the UK to so many fans of the band is really a dream come true.”
Graeme Duffin said: “I’d have been gobsmacked if anyone had told me 40 years ago that the tracks on Popped In Souled Out would still be loved by so many and that I’d still be performing them with the band after all that time. These shows are going to be a blast, and I know that fans are going to enjoy the shows just as much as us when we hit the road again next year.”
The announcement follows the band’s first European headline tour in more than 25 years in May 2026, which was followed by a run of intimate acoustic shows in the UK.