Short Biography
Start up your Big Red Car and get ready to Wiggle because Australia's No. 1 export and most popular children's entertainers, The Wiggles, are coming back to the UK with a brand new live show!

Joining Anthony, Murray, Sam and Jeff will be their friends Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog and Henry the Octopus, singing and dancing along to Wiggles favourites such as ‘Hot Potato' and ‘Rock A Bye Your Bear'.

The Wiggles' interactive song and dance has been capturing audiences' imaginations for 17 years. They have sold in excess of 22.5 million videos/DVDs and 7 million CDs worldwide, and have been twice named Australia's Export of the Year. The W...

Short Biography
Start up your Big Red Car and get ready to Wiggle because Australia's No. 1 export and most popular children's entertainers, The Wiggles, are coming back to the UK with a brand new live show!

Joining Anthony, Murray, Sam and Jeff will be their friends Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog and Henry the Octopus, singing and dancing along to Wiggles favourites such as ‘Hot Potato' and ‘Rock A Bye Your Bear'.

The Wiggles' interactive song and dance has been capturing audiences' imaginations for 17 years. They have sold in excess of 22.5 million videos/DVDs and 7 million CDs worldwide, and have been twice named Australia's Export of the Year. The Wiggles are the most awarded children's act in Australia.

The Wiggles can count Robert De Niro, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Donna Air, Alex James, Mariella Frostrup and Sophie Ellis Bextor among their many celebrity fans.

Last year The Wiggles performed in front of over one million fans worldwide, so join in the fun this summer with The Wiggles on their only UK tour this year!

In-depth Biography
Playing feel-good rock and R&B music proved successful for the Cockroaches; they even scored a Top Ten hit during the 12 years they spent together. But when the band broke up in 1991, bandmembers Tony Field and Jeff Fatt decided to form a children's band that would prove far more successful than anything they had previously experienced. Calling themselves the Wiggles, Field and Fatt joined forces with Murray Cook (bass) and Greg Page (vocals). All four were qualified preschool teachers and the Wiggles, with their distinctive colorful skivvies, quickly earned a reputation for writing well-crafted children's songs. Children immediately took to their storytelling, singing, and dancing, and such characters as Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, Captain Feathersword, and Wags the Dog helped launch a range of Wiggles merchandise.

Their debut album, The Wiggles, sold 70,000 copies, while its single, "Here Comes a Song," sold 35,000 copies alone. The follow-up albums Here Comes a Song (1992), Yummy Yummy (1993), Big Red Car (1995), and Wiggly Wiggly Christmas (1996) also achieved similar success. Also, the Wiggles won two Australian Performing Right Association (APRA) songwriting awards for Best Children's Song of 1994, 1995, and 1996. Big Red Car, Wake Up Jeff!, and Toot Toot! also won Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Awards for Best Children's Release in 1995, 1996, and 1998, respectively.

Videos such as Wiggle Time, Yummy Yummy, and Big Red Car all achieved double-platinum status while the band's fourth video, Wake Up Jeff!, sold over 200,000 copies in 1996. With the release of The Wiggledance in 1997, the Wiggles had sold almost one million videos and their two books, -Let's Wiggle and -Dorothy the Dinosaur's Picture Book, were in multiple editions. The Wiggles released their first film, Dorothy the Dinosaur, in 1997 and have toured New Zealand and the U.K. twice, as well as the U.S. six times. ~ Brendan Swift, All Music Guide