Marc Almond

Monday 13th May 2019

location_city Glasshouse International Centre, Gateshead

Marc Almond

Marc Almond is an English torch-singer and pop songwriter, best known as the lead singer with Soft Cell.

As well as Soft Cell, he has recorded as Marc and the Mambas and Marc Almond with The Willing Sinners.

Solo singles include "The Days of Pearly Spencer", "Jacky", "Tears Run Rings" and the #1 "Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart" (with Gene Pitney).

He released his debut album, "Vermin in Ermine" in 1984, followed by: "Stories of Johnny" (1985), "Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters" (1987), "The Stars We Are" (1988), "Jacques" (1989), "Enchanted" (1990), "Tenement Symphony" (1991), "Absinthe" (1993), "Fantastic Star" (1996), "Open All Night" (1999), "Stranger Things" (2001), "Heart on Snow" (2003), "Stardom Road" (2007), "Orpheus in Exile" (2009), "Varieté" (2010), "Feasting with Panthers" (2011), "The Tyburn Tree" (2014), "The Dancing Marquis" (2014), "Ten Plagues - A Song Cycle" (2014), "The Velvet Trail" (2015), "Against Nature" (2015), "Silver City Ride" (2016), "Shadows and Reflections" (2017), "A Lovely Life to Live" (2018, with Jools Holland), "Chaos and a Dancing Star" (2020), plus 2024's: "I'm Not Anyone".