Marti magic as Pellow pops into Fife for live show
The group’s lead singer and established solo artist Marti Pellow is currently celebrating 30 years in the industry by heading out on the road with his Private Collection Tour.
And he is bringing it to the Alhambra Theatre in Dunfermline on June 9 at 7pm.
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Hide AdFormed in 1982, Wet Wet Wet had a number of big hits during the eighties and nineties and their debut album, Popped in Souled Out went to the top of the charts. The group’s most popular singles included Wishing I Was Lucky; Sweet Little Mystery; Temptation, Angel Eyes, Goodnight Girl and probably the Wet’s biggest chart topper, Love Is All Around which was at number one for 15 weeks in 1994.
But the BRIT and Ivor Novello award-winning singer songwriter has proved there is more to his musical repertoire than just his hits with the band as Marti has also had huge success in musical theatre performing from Broadway to Tokyo and the West End in hit shows such as Chicago and Blood Brothers.
Next month he is performing in Fife and he told the Press what audiences can expect from the concert: “Last year I did a couple of shows under the title of ‘The Private Collection’ and sometimes you meet people in the street and they say ‘hey Marti that song ‘Goodnight Girl’ reminds me of when my daughter was born’, or ‘it reminds me of my first dance’,” he said.
“I have songs like that in my life – I can hear a song on the radio and it reminds me of a holiday or of a certain part of my life because music is so important to me, I want to sing songs that give me more back and that bring back memories for people, so on the night it will be a bunch of songs like that, that people will know – new