Starsailor With Strings

Starsailor are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their critically acclaimed, multi-platinum debut album Love Is Here with a special tour featuring a string ensemble arranged and conducted by Joe Duddell – and they’ll be bringing the show to Bexhill next October.

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The album will be played in full during the six-date Starsailor with Strings: Love is Here 25th Anniversary UK Tour, beginning at the historic London Palladium on Friday 2 October 2026, which marks the band’s latest collaboration with Duddell.

The release of Love is Here on 8 October 2001 secured Starsailor’s reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting new bands. NME described it as “a debut album of real emotional depth… a lyrically deft record… partly thanks to James Walsh’s remarkable tuning fork of a voice”, and Rolling Stone commended it for its “irresistible, expansive melodies”. Q Magazine was among those to name it as one of their albums of the year. It reached #2 on the UK Album Chart and sold over a million copies worldwide – including more than 500,000 in the UK alone. The album has also been streamed over 56 million times on Spotify alone to date.

“The response to the Starsailor with Strings: Live from Liverpool gigs and, more recently, the album release has been incredible, so it made sense to continue working with Joe as we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Love is Here,” said Starsailor lead singer and guitarist James Walsh.

“Fans continue to tell us how much our debut album means to them, so we’re excited to be playing it in full for them next year, this time with the added power and emotion of the strings!”