Founding member of Beautiful South, Dave Hemingway, brings his new band, Sunbirds, to The Buttermarket in Shrewsbury on Friday 14 April.

Tickets, which go on sale on Wednesday 4 January, start from £15 and can be booked here.

Having retired from the live scene at the back end of 2016, Dave has been keeping busy together with former South colleague, guitarist/songwriter Phil Barton, new discovery singer/violinist Laura Wilcockson and drummer Marc Parnell.

Single Cool To Be Kind was released in November 2020, on the independent label Nectar Records  signalling the arrival of Sunbirds with new songs and a new sound.

Although born and bred in England, the band's sound predominantly features the instrumentation of traditional American roots music combined with the occasional outburst of guitar heavy melody more associated with Seattle in the late 80s and early 90s.