Simply weeks after making an unlikely U.S. chart debut, Sophie Ellis-Bextor is taking her present on the highway for a first-ever headline tour of North America.
The British pop star units a seven-date stretch, beginning March 30 at San Francisco’s August Corridor, adopted by dates in San Diego, CA; Washington, DC, Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA; New York, NY; and wrapping June 8 at Danforth Music Corridor in Toronto, ON.
The New York present at Webster Corridor “bought out in a day,” she writes on social media. “My band and I are coming for you! Tremendous excited. Come and dance with me.”
Ellis-Bextor is, after all, flying excessive along with her 2001 hit “Homicide on the Dancefloor,” which is synced to the ultimate sequence within the hit darkish drama Saltburn.
The scene, during which the movie’s lead Barry Keoghan dances nude to the music, kicked off a dance development on TikTok – and noticed the music energy into charts around the globe.
Final month, “Homicide” cracked the Billboard Scorching 100 for the primary time, at No. 98, then lifted to No. 51, its new peak.
In her homeland, “Homicide” just lately returned to its all-time peak place of No. 2 on the Official U.Okay. Singles Chart, and is certainly one of her six prime 10 hits there. She additionally boasts a No. 1 hit because the uncredited singer on Spiller’s 2000’s launch “Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)”. The observe has additionally reentered the highest 10 on Australia’s ARIA Chart.
“It truly feels actually magical, and if I’m sincere, I don’t suppose I’ve fully processed it actually,” Ellis-Bextor informed the BBC following the revival for “Homicide”. “It’s a music I’ve been singing for over 20 years. I nonetheless love singing it. I really like the way in which folks react once I do it reside. However for brand new folks to be discovering it, for it to be making new recollections with folks, is sort of stunning.”
Forward of her North America jaunt, Ellis-Bextor has strutted her stuff on nationwide TV, performing the music on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon and for the BBC’s protection of the BAFTAs.
The English artist kicks off a tour of Continental Europe subsequent month, beginning in Groningen, Netherlands on March 1. Extra live shows are locked in throughout the U.Okay. and Europe later within the 12 months.
