Mike Oldfield News

The BBC Proms will feature debut appearances from Elbow's Guy Garvey, ELP drummer Carl Palmer, Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys, and Weyes Blood, alongside a first-ever Prog Rock Prom and regional concerts across the UK.

Senbla will present THE BEST OF TUBULAR BELLS I, II & III on a UK autumn tour, featuring Robin Smith leading a live group through Tubular Bells I in full, plus extended sections of II and III and hit single Moonlight Shadow.

The BBC Proms returns in summer 2026, presenting eight weeks of world-class music from an array of leading orchestras, conductors and soloists from across the UK and around the world.

Tubular Bells in Concert will head to Australia in June 2026 as part of the 50th Anniversary World Tour celebration. Mike Oldfield’s work will be performed by an expansive live group, led and arranged by Oldfield’s long-term collaborator, Robin A Smith.  

Following on from the hugely successful extended 50th anniversary celebrations of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, The Best of Tubular Bells I, II & III will tour across the UK throughout February and March 2026.

Riverside Theatres will present the exclusive final Sydney performance of the internationally acclaimed show, Tubular Bells for Two.  Learn more about the upcoming performance here!

Milton Keynes Theatre has enjoyed a fabulous season so far this year with smash- hit musicals, stunning dance, thrilling drama and sublime opera and the lineup for the autumn season is just as spectacular.

Following its successful sell-out run earlier this year, further dates have been announced around the UK for the Tubular Bells 50th The Anniversary Celebration before it heads to Europe.

To celebrate next year's 50th anniversary of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, the multi-million-selling and multi-award-winning album will be performed live in concert for a celebratory UK tour. 

Internationally acclaimed pianist and singer Dominic Ferris returns to Crazy Coqs in London with his solo show: ME AND MY PIANO on Wednesday 10 November 2021 at 7pm. Dominic will be welcoming two brand new guest artistes: Joanna Forest and Robert Levey. 

Unstoppable! Circa presents Tubular Bells at London's Royal Festival Hall, another groundbreaking new work created during COVID

The spectacle marks the 50th anniversary of Tubular Bells, the debut studio album by English multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter Mike Oldfield. Oldfield, who was just 17 years old when he started composing the music, recorded and played almost all of the instruments on the album.

The world-acclaimed contemporary circus arts company Circa this week premiered the sixth of the remarkable ten new works created during COVID, with a production of Astor Piazzolla's tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires with Opera Lyon opening at the prestigious Les Nuits de Fourvière, the first festival to re-open in France.

This is a fine piece of cinema from writer/director, Pablo Berger.

A new Southbank Centre exhibition, Concrete Dreams, is announced today, bringing to life the creative spirit of iconic arts venues, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room and celebrating their public reopening after two years of extensive restoration and redesign.

A new Southbank Centre exhibition, Concrete Dreams, is announced today, bringing to life the creative spirit of iconic arts venues, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room and celebrating their public reopening after two years of extensive restoration and redesign.

MusicWorks today announced that it would be presenting 11 classic folk and rock concerts in Palm Beach County during the first four months of 2018.

MusicWorks today announced that it would be presenting 11 classic folk and rock concerts in Palm Beach County during the first four months of 2018.

Drum legend & producer extraordinaire Simon Phillips will be releasing Protocol 4 on October 27th on Phantom Recordings, distributed by AMPED. Simon Phillips is by far one of the world's most renowned and respected drummers, whose style not only reflects his technical gift but also his distinct musical sensibility.

Blues vocalist Sari Schorr is back in the studio this week to record the follow-up album to her critically acclaimed debut album 'A Force of Nature". Before embarking on her UK tour on Wednesday 15th March, Sari is currently recording her new studio album in Bath.