The Hour

Spandau Ballet, leading purveyors of the New Romantic sound, well and truly conquered the 80s achieving ten Top Ten singles and four Top Ten UK albums in that most decadent of decades.

They split after the release of Heart Like a Sky, which failed to make a real impact on the charts, and went their separate ways. 

But now with a new album being recorded and a sell-out stadium tour about to begin the Spandau Ballet boys are back.

“It took a long time, from the first inkling it took four years before we sat down, had a pint and asked – do you think we can make this work?  We had a few words and said let’s put this stuff behind us and let’s be grown up about it.”

Fans may think this reunion has been long overdue but front man Tony Hadley, who after leaving the band went solo, explains the band came together again naturally, when the timing felt right.

“We’re actually getting on fabulously well.  We’ve just been in the studio recording a new album together, having breakfast lunch and dinner together; and I think we’re getting on better now than we ever did.  There’s a lot more respect for each other and we’ve all been through such a lot individually…and life’s too short.”

So what can die-hard fans and eager Spandau Ballet acolytes expect from the new recordings and the reunion tour?

“On the album their will be some of the hits acoustically rearranged…and a couple of new tracks that sound really fantastic.”  The tour, explains Hadley, will be what many fans have been holding out for all these years.  “We go on road this October and it’s going to be a greatest hits tour…it’s the tour we should have done back at the end of the 80s.”