SOS Band

Name: SOS Band
Start: 2025-08-01T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Park Lane, CR9 1DG Croydon, United Kingdom

Schedule

Fri, 01 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Park Lane, CR9 1DG Croydon, United Kingdom | Croydon, EN

For the South London 80’s soul boys and girls there were new bands emerging every week – some enjoyed a single dance floor classic single before disappearing into obscurity. However, others became legendary through the constant release of classic track after classic track and on August 1 2025 for the first time in 40 years, one legendary band returns to Fairfield Halls Croydon.
From Atlanta Georgia USA, the talented SOS Band celebrate the 45th anniversary of their debut USA release ‘Take Your Time, Do It Right’. In the United States, it reached the number one spot on the Billboard R&B singles chart and number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in mid 1980. On the Billboard dance chart, it went to number one for four non-consecutive weeks.
45 years on and the group enjoy iconic status amongst UK soul fans with their subsequent hit singles ‘Just Be Good To Me’, ‘Just the Way You Like It’, ‘Weekend Girl’, ‘High Hopes’, ‘Borrowed Love’ and the #1 hit single ‘The Finest’.
Special guests on the night will be the UK’s very own Loose Ends playing a full band show. In 2025 the band celebrate the 40th anniversary of their biggest release ‘Hanging on a String’, which reached #13 in the British chart. 'Hanging on a String' also reached #1 on the US Billboard R&B chart, making Loose Ends the first African-British band to top that chart. Subsequent singles such as ‘Magic Touch’, ’Stay a Little While Child’, the massive #1 single in the USA ‘Slow Down’ and ‘Gonna Make You Mine’ established Loose Ends as the UK soul band, taken to heart by all the suburban soul boys and girls around the UK. Indeed, it could be said that the band paved the way for artistes such as Soul II Soul, Gabrielle and others to follow in the next decade.
This show is a rare opportunity to see the band perform as a full live outfit. Even at the peak of their fame in the mid 80’s, performing with a full band was difficult due to logistics and finances. However, anyone who recently saw the band supporting USA outfit Change will attain to the power of a Loose Ends full band performance.