Pretenders

The Pretenders will be spending their summer on the road in support of their latest studio album Relentless. The headlining run, making more than a dozen stops throughout North America in July and August, will overlap with the band’s appearances as special guests at select shows on Foo Fighters’ upcoming stadium tour. The Pretenders will kick off their summer run on July 13 in Red Bank, New Jersey at the Count Basie Center for the Art. The tour will make stops in Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, Chicago, Austin,…

The Pretenders have postponed their upcoming headline UK tour, originally scheduled for February and March. The tour will now take place in October 2024, beginning on 11th October at Portsmouth’s Guildhall before closing at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall on 28th October. The tour will take in thirteen performances across the country, including four new dates at Portsmouth’s Guildhall (11th October), Hull’s Connexin Live (19th October), a third night at London’s Palladium (24th October), and a show at Ipswich’s Regent…

The continuation of BST Hyde Park on Friday brought with it a rock n’ roll lineup featuring the legendary Guns ’N’ Roses as the headline act with support from Pretenders, The Darkness, Larkin Poe and more. Throughout the month of July, Take That, BLACKPINK, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Billy Joel and Lana Del Ray are all set to take the main stage as well making it another fantastic summer of music in the capital. The weather was more overcast on Friday as a good amount of the 60,000 strong crowd hurried…

‘We don’t have to get fat / We don’t have to get old / We don’t have to fade to black,” Chrissie Hynde told the crowd in her idiosyncratic smooth roar. It’s off the new album, Relentless. “I like the definition,” she told NME last month, “showing no abatement of intensity. It’s the life of the artist. You never retire. You become relentless.” While this is very much the spirit of the 2023 line-up – never retire, never surrender – Hynde is peculiarly unchanged in her every particular, from the sinewy rock sprite look to…

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The Pretenders will release new album ‘Relentless’ on 1st September 2023 via Parlophone.The band’s 14th studio album, ‘Relentless’ is being introduced with new single ‘Let the Sun Come In’, which was premiered on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Breakfast Show.Credit: ParlophoneSpeaking about the album title, Chrissie Hynde said, “I enjoy seeing the various meanings and origins of a word. And I liked the definition: “showing no abatement of intensity”. It’s the life of the artist. You never retire. You become…

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“All my old favourites seem tired and old,” sings Chrissie Hynde, performing the Pretenders’ new song Losing Sense for the very first time. As far as opening salvos go, it amounts to a manifesto of what not to be – and during the 80 minutes that follow, they sound and look anything but worn out or jaded. Hynde is 71, but with her piled up hair, trademark kohl eyeliner, black faux leather waistcoat and guitar strapped on like a rifle, she’s still the epitome of an iconic rock star, a visible role model to the young women…