Jeff Lynne’s ELO announces more definitive dates ever

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Earlier this month Jeff Lynne’s ELO announced their last show ever, planning a performance in London’s Hyde Park on July 13 next year as part of BST’s annual series of outdoor shows.

Now the band has added two more shows to the Over and Out UK Tour. They play a hometown show at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena on July 5, before heading to Manchester’s Co-Op Live on July 9, while the Hyde Park show takes place on July 13.

A presale for both new shows starts tomorrow (October 30) at 10am local time, with general sales starting at the same time on Friday.

Announcing the Hyde Park show, Lynne said: “My return to touring began in Hyde Park in 2014. It seems like the perfect place to do our final show. We couldn’t be more excited to share this special evening in London with our British fans. As the song goes, ‘we’re gonna do it again!'”

The only other artist announced for next year’s BST shows is American country singer-songwriter Zach Bryan, who will perform on June 28.

The first Electric light orchestra The show was on April 16, 1972 at the Greyhound pub in South London. Lynne ended the band in 1986 and revived them in 2000, before returning to the Hyde Park stage in 2014, a show that sold out in 15 minutes.

The US leg of the Over and Out Tour concludes tonight (October 29) at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, AZ. Tickets are available.