A key 1980s electro-pop act, Soft Cell are back for “One Night – One Final Time”, as the posters have it. There’s huge anticipation in the sold-out O2. They did farewell gigs at the Hammersmith Palais ...

“Forty years, and back where it all started!” Marc Almond calls to the rafters early on, arms aloft, dressed in all black and topped with ink-shaded aviators. It’s been more than forty years since ...

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Some farewells are not quite as final as they seem. Three years after waving goodbye with what was billed as their last UK concert, Soft Cell are back on the road, with a new album to follow next year ...

The PR said that the synth pop pioneers would reunite for one last time at the o2 in London in 2018 - in their first UK show for 15 years. It appears to be a big fib. Because tonight in another o2, ...

“SUCCESSION, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Kominsky Method, Call My Agent, writing the new Soft Cell album . . . ” Marc Almond is listing what got him through lockdown and how he and Dave Ball wrote the ...

The Soft Cell story is one of wild, hedonistic success. Here, Marc Almond and Dave Ball confess all – about controversial performance art, New York’s depraved club scene, the perils of having hit ...

Synth player and producer had huge success with Tainted Love and other Soft Cell hits, and later returned to UK Top 10 with dance project the Grid Dave Ball, who as one half of Soft Cell brought dark, ...

With a deft twist of one of his best-loved lyrics, Marc Almond, resplendent in indoor shades and strong, if not always stable, of voice, proclaimed “we’ve been involved for 40 years now” from his ...