Marc Almond returns to play live in Italy after sixteen years for a single date

Sixteen years after his last performance in our country, Marc Almond is finally set to meet Italian audiences again with an event show scheduled for Sunday, September 27 at the Auditorium Paganini in Parma, as part of the Il Rumore del Lutto festival.

An unmistakable voice and the absolute leading figure of the synth-pop scene with Soft Cell, Almond left an indelible mark on music in the Eighties before embarking on a solo career rich in experimentation. Over the decades he has moved through electronic music, chanson, cabaret, folk and musical theatre, building an original artistic path that continues to influence musicians of different generations.
His return to Italy comes just days after the release of “Danceteria”, the sixth and final Soft Cell album, due out on September 25, two days before the Parma show.
Marc Almond's last performance in our country dates back to 2010. Tickets for the concert will be available from 1pm on Tuesday, July 7 on TicketOne.

A little over a year after the death of Dave Ball, the veteran multi-instrumentalist and creative other half of the British duo, Marc Almond has announced the release of “Danceteria”, due out on September 25. The album will stand as the final chapter in the career of the British act that topped international charts in 1981 with “Tainted Love”. It has been preceded by the title-track single, offering a first taste of a project conceived as a definitive farewell to the Soft Cell story.
In a statement, Almond explained the meaning behind the title and the record: “‘Danceteria’ is a love letter to early 80s New York. The time we spent in New York, where we recorded our first three albums, shaped us both as artists and as people. Celebrating that period is a fitting farewell to Dave Ball and to Soft Cell's final studio album”.
The singer also made clear there is no possibility of continuing the project without his lifelong partner: “There can be no more Soft Cell recordings without Dave, it would be impossible. The sad reality is that Dave Ball was half of Soft Cell, and regardless of any live shows, I cannot write Soft Cell songs without him”.

The album, which will feature 12 previously unreleased tracks (plus 2 bonus tracks on the CD edition), is in effect a tribute to Dave Ball himself, who completed it just two days before his death.
With “Danceteria”, one of the most influential chapters in British synth-pop thus comes to a close, a story that began in the late Seventies and became a reference point for electronic music thanks to hits like “Tainted Love”, “Bedsitter” and “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye”, and to their landmark LP “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret“.

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