With a great line-up already confirmed for Saturday night with Reef and The Stranglers headlining – plus the world’s premier Elton John and Thin Lizzy tribute acts performing ahead of The Boomtown Rats on Friday – fans of seventies, eighties and nineties music are in for a memorable weekend at the Home of British Motor Racing. Even more so as public admittance to both concerts is totally free for all those with tickets to the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival.
The Boomtown Rats (top) had stand-out number one hits in the late seventies with ‘Rat Trap’ and ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ but disbanded in the mid-eighties while frontman Bob Geldof concentrated on his charity work and a solo career. The Irish new wave band, however, reformed in 2013 when in Geldof’s own words, he felt it was the right time to ‘re-Rat, go back to Boomtown and start doing all those great songs once again’. It’s a magical musical treat Silverstone Classic visitors can savour in July.
Revving up the crowd for The Boomtown Rats on Friday will be Ultimate Elton (below top left) who performs many of Elton John’s hits and Limehouse Lizzy (below top right), which is keeping alive the great compositions of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy.
“With The Boomtown Rats, Reef and The Stranglers pumping out their terrific back catalogue of unforgettable hits, we’re in for two five star nights of high octane live music at this year’s Silverstone Classic,” enthused Nick Wigley, CEO of event organiser Goose Live Events. “It’s clear from the growing demand for weekend tickets that more and more visitors are turning the Classic into a full three-day summer festival. With so much nostalgic racing on the full grand prix circuit, so much fantastic family entertainment on the in-field and now a full bill of outstanding live music line-ups on both Friday and Saturday evenings, one day really isn’t enough!”
Great value weekend tickets are available for those wishing to revel in the sounds of The Boomtown Rats and The Stranglers, plus the equally evocative music of flat out V8 and V12 engines. Moreover, those booking before the end of March can take advantage of Early Bird tickets which offer significant savings of up to 17 per cent.
There is even an all-new Family ticket this year, encouraging more parents to experience the non-stop ‘Rocking and Racing’ weekend with their children. The Family ticket includes camping for two adults and two children across the whole weekend and gives a discount of more than 20 per cent on advance tickets bought individually.
Full details of all tickets (which must be purchased in advance) – as well as hospitality packages and weekend festival camping – can be found on the event website at:
www.silverstoneclassic.co
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