Performing the album ‘The Lexicon of Love 'in its entirety 27 years after its debut release
at Sheffield City Hall this December.

"Hands down, the gig of year so far" ***** The Daily Telegraph

After the resounding success and critical acclaim of ABC's performance at London Royal Albert Hall in April, Martin Fry along with ABC and a 50 piece orchestra due to overwhelming public demand will be performing debut album "The Lexicon of Love" in its entirety at Sheffield City Hall.

Once more the shows will be conducted by critically acclaimed musician and multi-talented arranger and composer, Anne Dudley.

ABC were one of those groups who come along once a decade to effect a paradigm shift in the way music is heard and made, one of those groups who move the music forward, alerting us to the possibilities of strange combinations, employing radical ideas yet never confusing arrogance with ambition. They ‘kick-started' the eighties with their own brand of pop for the ‘new decade'.

Fusing dance floor finesse with a post-punk attitude they released their first single, ‘Tears Are Not Enough', in the autumn of 1981. More hits followed in rapid succession. ‘Poison Arrow', ‘The Look Of Love' and ‘All Of My Heart'. On its release in May 1982 their debut album ‘The Lexicon of Love' crashed straight into the album charts at number one.

Mercury Records repackaged and re-released ‘The Lexicon of Love' in 2004 to critical acclaim, and the album was acknowledged as the greatest British pop LP of the decade, and remains one of the 10 best of all time.