Phil Bates - Up Close & Personal

Name: Phil Bates - Up Close & Personal
Start: 2025-10-11T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Two Sisters Arts Centre

Schedule

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Two Sisters Arts Centre | Felixstowe, EN

Tickets £15 01394 279613 or www.ticketsource.co.uk/two-sisters-arts-centre
Phil Bates connection with ELO began when his band Trickster signed with ELO's record label, Jet Records and being managed by the infamous Don Arden ( Father of Sharon Osbourne). The band featured as support band on ELO's ground-breaking and spectacular 1978 Spaceship world tour. When Jeff Lynne decided he no longer wanted to tour with ELO, drummer Bev Bevan formed ELO Part 11. In 1993, Phil Bates joined ELO Part II, replacing Pete Haycock and Neil Lockwood. ELO Part II took the music of ELO around the world, often playing with symphony orchestras in large venues around the globe. After leaving ELO Part II, Bates became a member of the Eleanor Rigby Experience for a short while along with Martin Allcock of Fairport Convention fame and Jethro Tull drummer Clive Bunker along with Tina McBain, and Andy Bole. The Eleanor Rigby Experience released one self titled CD and toured extensively in the UK. He has often appeared live on German, Swiss and Polish TV playing ELO songs. These days in this country he plays as a solo artist playing songs from his own repertoire his set consists of his own compositions a little bit of blues a touch of Beatles and of course lots of those classic Jeff Lynne songs that made ELO one of the biggest and most successful bands in the world