Sophie Ellis Bextor to headline ‘Live At Tileyard North’
Sophie Ellis-Bextor has been announced as the latest headliner for Live at Tileyard North – a new series of outdoor concerts taking place in Wakefield next summer,
Since her collaboration with Italian DJ Spinner, 2000’s ‘Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)’, which reached Number 1 in the charts and became one of the best-selling vinyl singles of the millennium, Sophie Ellis-Bextor has been a pop music mainstay.
Her subsequent debut album, 2001’s Read My Lips sold 1.5 million copies and featured the anthemic single Murder on the Dancefloor which reportedly became one of the most-played songs of the year in Europe and established Ellis-Bextor as a creative force in her own right.
Her eighth studio album, Perimenopop, was released this September to widespread critical acclaim and became her highest-charting release in over a decade, with singles likes Freedom of the Night, Relentless Love and Taste reframing and reaffirming her distinctly English disco-pop artistry.
The celebrated singer-songwriter will be performing in the city on Thursday, August 27, 2026 and joins recently announced Live at Tileyard North headliners the Vaccines, who will be performing their critically acclaimed 2011 debut album What Did You Expect From the Vaccines? on Sunday, August 30.
Live at Tileyard North will bring Wakefield’s first outdoor concert series to life with two weeks of incredible outdoor live music experiences in the courtyard of the impressive Tileyard North developme