Name: Average White Band
Start: 2024-05-06T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Tyne Theatre and Opera House

The Average White Band, one of the best soul and funk bands of all-time, have announced their farewell tour for 2024.
The group will perform their biggest hits and fan favourites, such as ‘Let’s Go Round Again’, ‘Cut The Cake’, ‘Queen of My Soul’ and US Number 1 ‘Pick Up The Pieces’.
Formed in London in 1972, the six-piece band somewhat incongruously, given their Scottish roots, took the influences of their R&B heroes such as Marvin Gaye, James Brown and Donny Hathaway and developed their own authentic sound which was eagerly adopted by black audiences in the US and elsewhere. The group’s consistently accomplished song-writing helped them to achieve several Gold-selling albums and multiple Grammy nominations for the legendary Atlantic Records.
In addition to the band’s hit singles, many of their album tracks such as ‘Schoolboy Crush’ and ‘Person to Person’, amongst many others, have been heavily sampled by the likes of the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest and Arrested Development – so much so that the AWB are one of the top 15 sampled acts of all all-time.
Having remained a perennial fixture at top music venues across the world for over 50 years, the Average White Band’s farewell tour is the not-to-be-missed last chance for multiple generations of fans to experience the musical energy and trademark sound of one of the truly great soul bands.