Trentham Live 2026 - The Human League
- Sunday, august 23
- 4:00 PM-7:00 PM
- The Trentham Estate Stone Road, Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent ST4, United Kingdom
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On 23 August 2026, The Human League headline at The Trentham Estate, Stone Road, Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent ST4, with Haircut 100 on the bill. Formed in Sheffield, The Human League moved from late‑70s experimental electronics to a more melodic synth-pop steered by Philip Oakey alongside Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley. Their catalogue, from Reproduction and Travelogue to Dare, Hysteria, Crash and Romantic?, Octopus, Secrets and Credo, mixes synthetic textures, mechanical rhythms and club‑inspired vocal harmonies. In concert, the trio revisits this trajectory relying on drum machines, sequencers and concise choruses.
Haircut 100 represents the other side of early‑80s British music: guitar-driven pop informed by jazz‑funk and Brit‑funk. Around Nick Heyward, Les Nemes, Graham Jones and Blair Cunningham, the band made its mark with a string of singles in 1981–82 and the album Pelican West in 1982. Since reuniting in 2023, they have been performing a repertoire in which bright guitars, supple bass, saxophone and percussion bring added depth to songs written for movement.
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The Trentham Estate
Stone Road, Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent ST4, United Kingdom