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Soft Cell is currently touring across 4 countries and has 6 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, after that they'll be at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock.

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The music and voice were great! Marc's voice is still holding up well and the production worked well, musically.

Marc could work on his stage presence and moves. He seemed a bit awkward at the mic.

I still totally recommend seeing Marc and the new Soft Cell. I still remember getting the 10" Bedsitter record and wearing it out. :)

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In the immortal words of Alan Partridge, “ruddy hell, it’s Soft Cell!” The synthpop duo are probably open to accusations of being one hit wonders - I’m sure there’s plenty of people who’d struggle to name more than one of their songs, after ‘Tainted Love’ - but back in the early eighties, they were a real force, brewing up pop hits and constant controversy in pretty much equal measure. Their close association with the evolving drug culture in nightclubs during their heyday made them a popular target for the press, but it was something that the band were happy to play up to, with their debut record Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - which reached number five in the UK charts - dealing with squalid lyrical themes. After reforming in the early noughties - they fizzled out, originally, in 1984 - they toured Europe in 2002 and played a short run of dates in the U.S. a year later. The shows were far from the kind of gaudy affairs you might have expected from the band in their prime, though, with a shadowy, minimal light show putting the focus squarely on the music - an extended, ten minute rendition of ‘Tainted Love’ included. Since singer Marc Almond’s near-fatal motorcycle accident in 2004, he’s performed solo, but not with Soft Cell; the band haven’t officially been dissolved again, though, so further shows remain a possibility.

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Soft Cell released their first new song in 15 years in 2018, in conjunction with their “farewell” show, but the duo has announced a new album and a tour.

They revealed plans for a new album―their first in 20 years―and today they’ve officially announced the album. It’s called *Happiness Not Included , and it’s due in spring 2022 via BMG. Artwork, tracklist, and a teaser video with a clip of new music have all been released. Additionally, the group announced a tour, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret .

Marc Almond says, “In this album I wanted to look at us as a society: a place where we have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality and decency, food before the rights of animals, fanaticism before fairness and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others. But in the album, there is also a belief that there is a utopia if we can peel back the layers and understand what really matters.”

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And Dave Ball adds, “Recorded remotely during a world pandemic. Science fiction stories for the 21st century.”

The idea of a new Soft Cell album also comes as a surprise to fans who attended what was supposed to be their final gig at London’s O2 Arena in 2018. Speaking to the Daily Star’s Wired column, Ball said: “Before the O2 show, Marc [Almond] and I hadn’t seen each other in about 15 years. In the years between, we’ve started to sound mature. The new songs are still catchy, but a lot more worldly-wise.”

Opening up on what fans can expect from the record, which is set to arrive in 2022, Ball said: “We haven’t tried to write another ‘Tainted Love.’ Maybe we should!”

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Soft Cell is finally heading back to California.

The acclaimed English synth-pop duo, consisting of Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball, is bringing its first North American tour in nearly 20 years to the Masonic in San Francisco on Aug. 26. Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets are $39.50-$175, livenation.com .

Soft Cell will be performing its best-known album — the smash 1981 debut “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” — in its entirety during each of the six dates of the tour . And, yes, that’s the album that gave the world the group’s classic new wave cover of “Tainted Love,” a song that was originally recorded by R&B vocalist Gloria Jones in 1964.

It’s one of three California dates. The other two are Aug. 23 at the Magnolia in El Cajon and Aug. 24 at YouTube Theater in Los Angeles. See  softcell.co.uk  for more details.

The band says it will also be offering up other longtime fan favorites — which hopefully will translate to “Where the Heart Is,” “Soul Inside” and “Down in the Subway” making the set list — as well as material from the recently released “Happiness Not Included,” the first new Soft Cell album since 2002’s “Cruelty Without Beauty.”

I recently had the chance to interview Almond about the long-awaited North American tour.

Q:  What are your memories of visiting the states?

A: America has been such a part of my whole career. Those first albums recorded in New York in the ‘80s, the people who were so engaging and uplifting, the changing cultural landscape, the horror of the AIDS crisis and then onwards seeing the America I knew transform itself. This has fed into and through so much of our work.

We were so influenced by American underground music like Suicide. Visiting and playing in San Francisco and Los Angeles is always special — the audiences are really warm and generous, and many of the age, like myself, who have really lived life and love it still.

Q: Why did you decide to hit the North American concert trail in 2022?

A: The offer came through and we were out promoting the new album, and celebrating 40 years since “Non Stop.” We have a great show around that album so it seemed like a good thing to do.

Q: You’re not staying long on this side of the pond. Why so few dates? Does that mean there may be a second leg?

A: The concert days are so few because Dave has not been in great health, and there was less pressure on him as the show stands up with the music and visuals.

Phil Larsen who produced the album plays Dave’s role in the show if Dave is not able to attend, so we kept it to a few dates. But no, this will be it in the U.S. as far as Soft Cell are concerned.

Q: What are your thoughts on ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’ turning 40?

A: It stands up well. It is, of course, our seminal album but the songs are strong, and it has so many hits on it. Certainly I think it has lasted the test of time, and of course “Tainted Love” came from that album.

Q:  Why do you think that album remains so beloved?

A: The songs, the timing, the changing mood of the ‘80s. It embraced the new synth sound of the time, and held such a special place in many people’s hearts as they were growing up, older and through such a turbulent time.

Like so much great pop, the hook is the mismatch of the cold synth, the personal lyrics and my voice. And it said something about something, which so often pop music fails to do. And it went against the grain of so much glossy manufactured pop there was at that time.

Q:  What were your original ambitions when you and David Ball first got together? Did you hope that we’d still be talking Soft Cell nearly a half century later?

A: We didn’t have ambitions of pop fame. I suppose we hoped to make our own music and enough people would like it for us to make a living.

None of us could or dared to hope beyond that.

We thought we would be more of a cult underground band. We never expected to get the string of hits we had across the world. And “Tainted Love” made the Guinness Book of Record for the longest time in the Billboard Top 100.

So much is down to serendipity that it is almost out of our hands. We just got lucky.

Q: Do you ever get tired of “Tainted Love” — or maybe want to take a break from it?

A: I did for a while, but not anymore. I came to realize that one song has made so much possible for us both. It changed everything irreversibly and for that I will always be grateful and lucky. There is that word again, lucky — never underestimate it.

Q: What’s it like playing that album in its entirety at these concerts?

A: It is fantastic, and the show, with the brilliant visuals created by the company StuFish, is remarkable. I love performing it. It has made me re-evaluate the album. There is a narrative that runs through it akin to a song cycle.

Q: Why was the time right to finally record a new album?

A: I found myself with time on my hands and in the bizarre dystopian world of COVID and panic, real tragedy and sadness, coupled with everyone going crazy, I think Dave and I thought, hell, why not do another album?

It all felt creatively much more Soft Cell than my solo work would have, I think we fed creatively into the atmosphere of the time. So Dave would send me ideas and tunes, and then I write lyrics and record vocals, and send them back. We have always worked like that. Dave and I have drifted creatively towards each other over the years, written some great songs, and not always for Soft Cell. I just keep returning to these two worlds, pre-COVID and post, and now it seems to me that all bets are off. And in truth, I had not worked in two years, like most people, and Soft Cell offered a better opportunity than my solo career.

Q: How much of the new album will fans get to hear in concert?

A: A selection of tracks in the first half, but accompanied with hits and fan favorites. The “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” show lends itself to that — it exists now in its own right.

Q: How well do the new songs mix with the “Non-Stop” material?

A: Better than I had dared to imagine. The critics and the fans have been unbelievably generous in their praise and I am really proud of it. And to have a No. 1 song with “Purple Zone” was an unbelievable achievement.

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Marc Almond and Soft Cell have just five concerts left on their 2022 tour calendar. Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP

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You’ve been humming “Tainted Love” for years.

Now, you can finally sing along live with Soft Cell , the group that brought the ‘80s classic to the world.

However, you will need to hurry.

The English new wave duo, comprised of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball, have just five concerts left on their 2022 North American tour .

That includes shows in El Cajon, California (Aug. 23), Inglewood, California (Aug. 24), San Francisco, California (Aug. 26), Chicago (Aug. 28) and New York City (Aug. 30).

Tickets for all shows are available on sites like StubHub , Vivid Seats , TicketNetwork , Ticketmaster and TicketCity .

First-time Vivid Seats users can save $20 off ticket orders over $200  with promo code  NJ20  at checkout.

On TicketCity, save $15 on orders over $400  using promo code  TCITYSAVE15  at checkout.

A complete calendar featuring all venues, show start times and links to buy tickets can be found here .

According to setlist.fm , these upcoming concerts will be Soft Cell’s first in North America since Dec. 2022.

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We’ve got the windy city covered., marc almond spreads four decades of soft cell’s irresistible “tainted love” around house of blues.

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The project that put English synth pop stars Soft Cell on the international map, “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret,” just turned 40 and vocalist Marc Almond is marking the occasion with an extremely limited run of a mere five dates across the States (originally slated to be with fellow co-founding keyboardist David Ball, who is sitting out due to a fractured vertebrae).

Actually, it’s been at least half that long since the group previously visited Chicago’s Metro, and thankfully the House Of Blues made the cut this round as well with Grammy-winning producer/frequent collaborator Philip Larsen standing in for Ball, attracting fans of practically all ages, who literally flew in from all over America.

Those current cuts intersected with several older ones (“Torch,” “Heat,” “The Art Of Falling Apart”), but no matter the era, everything sounded fresh and fantastic courtesy of the primary singer, his substitute partner, a saxophone/flute player and three background vocalists.

The true test came when revisiting the entire “Cabaret” collection, though Almond and company were already well on the way to passing from the start of “Frustration” and sealed the deal after everyone chanted along to the massive “Tainted Love.”

As it progressed, “Seedy Films,” “Chips On My Shoulder” and “Bedsitter” were amongst the many that were at the forefront of electronic exploration, while simultaneously sewing the earliest seeds of what would eventually become the techno explosion.

For the encore, a reprise of “Tainted Love” was bridged with “Where Did Our Love Go,” as was often customary in the clubs, ending on a truly euphoric note, especially if this winds up being the last time these irresistible tunes ever come to town.

For additional information on Soft Cell, visit SoftCell.co.uk .

Upcoming concert highlights at House Of Blues include Calum Scott (Aug. 31); The Fixx (Sept. 6); Stick To Your Guns (Sept. 8); Grits & Biscuits (Sept. 9); House Of Burlesque (Sept. 10); C-Kan, MC Davo and Dharius (Sept. 11); Pi’erre Bourne (Sept. 16); Emo Night Brooklyn (Sept. 17); Caifanes (Sept. 18); Joyner Lucas (Sept. 19); Omah Lay (Sept. 20); In Flames (Sept. 22); Here Come The Mummies (Sept. 23); Aleman (Sept. 28); Daoi Freyr (Sept. 29) and Mark Hubbard & The Voices (Sept. 30). For additional details, visit LiveNation.com .

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Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

• Frustration
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Soft Cell: Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go

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• Loving You Hating Me
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