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Rating: 4.8 out of 5 based on 69 reviews

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Pioneers in the UK's new wave movement

The Human League were formed in 1977 by synth duo Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh. Following a short stint as The Future, and joined by Philip Oakley and Adrian Wright, The Human League released their debut Being Boiled single in 1978. After a tour alongside Siouxsie & The Banshees and an instrumental EP, the band unveiled their full-length debut Reproduction and follow-up Travelogue before both founding members Ware and Marsh departed the band citing creative differences.

With Wright and Oakley remaining, they enlisted bassist Ian Burden alongside vocalists Susan Ann Sully and Joanne Catherall. Although Burden would go on to depart the band in 1987, that period would see The Human League release Dare, their defining 1981 record that spawned the new wave staple Don't You Want Me, alongside fellow UK top ten singles Love Action (I Believe In Love) and Open Your Heart.

Hitting No.1 on the UK album chart and going triple Platinum, Dare led the way for The Human League's synth domination of the '80s. The band went on to release Hysteria in 1984 and Crash in 1986. Both their sound and aesthetic heavily influenced the electronic scene, acting as catalysts for the growth of club culture for years to come. During a short hiatus from the band, Oakley also recorded a collaborative LP with producer Giorgio Moroder which included the track Together In Electric Dreams.

With Burden no longer part of The Human League, Oakley, Sully and Catherall released Romantic? in 1990, their final album on longtime label Virgin. Octopus came out on EastWest in 1995, marking their return to the top ten on the UK album chart and securing Gold certification. Two more studio albums followed; 2001's Secrets (inspired by the reemergence of synth in popular music), and Credo a full decade later. The Human League also released a number of compilation, live and rarity albums, cementing their legacy well into the the millennium with high profile tours and festival appearances.

In 2020, The Human League announced a 40 year anniversary tour for Dare, joined on the road by Altered Image and Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins, and promising a performance of the album in its entirety alongside select hits from across their catalogue.

Setlists

    1. 1Hard Times
    2. 2Love Action (I Believe in Love)
    3. 3Mirror Man
    4. 4Heart Like a Wheel
    5. 5Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra cover)
    6. 6Life on Your Own
    7. 7The Lebanon
    8. 8One Man in My Heart
    9. 9The Path of Least Resistance
    10. 10Empire State Human
    11. 11Louise
    12. 12Soundtrack to a Generation
    13. 13All I Ever Wanted
    14. 14Open Your Heart
    15. 15The Sound of the Crowd
    16. 16Tell Me When
    17. 17(Keep Feeling) Fascination (Included Artist & Musician Introductions)
    18. 18Don't You Want Me

  2. Encore

    1. 19Good-Bye Bad Times (Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder cover)
    2. 20Together in Electric Dreams (Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder cover)
    1. 1Hard Times
    2. 2Love Action (I Believe in Love)
    3. 3Mirror Man
    4. 4Heart Like a Wheel
    5. 5Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra cover)
    6. 6Life on Your Own
    7. 7The Lebanon
    8. 8One Man in My Heart
    9. 9The Path of Least Resistance
    10. 10Empire State Human
    11. 11Louise
    12. 12Soundtrack to a Generation
    13. 13Open Your Heart
    14. 14All I Ever Wanted
    15. 15The Sound of the Crowd
    16. 16Tell Me When
    17. 17(Keep Feeling) Fascination
    18. 18Don't You Want Me

  2. Encore

    1. 19Good-Bye Bad Times (Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder cover)
    2. 20Together in Electric Dreams (Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder cover)
    1. 1Mirror Man
    2. 2Heart Like a Wheel
    3. 3The Sound of the Crowd
    4. 4Soundtrack to a Generation
    5. 5Open Your Heart
    6. 6Seconds
    7. 7The Lebanon
    8. 8One Man in My Heart
    9. 9Human
    10. 10Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra cover)
    11. 11Tell Me When
    12. 12(Keep Feeling) Fascination
    13. 13Don't You Want Me

  2. Encore

    1. 14Being Boiled
    2. 15Together in Electric Dreams (Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder cover)
    1. 1Mirror Man
    2. 2Heart Like a Wheel
    3. 3The Sound of the Crowd
    4. 4Soundtrack to a Generation
    5. 5Open Your Heart
    6. 6Seconds
    7. 7The Lebanon
    8. 8One Man in My Heart
    9. 9Human
    10. 10Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra cover)
    11. 11Love Action (I Believe in Love)
    12. 12Tell Me When
    13. 13(Keep Feeling) Fascination
    14. 14Don't You Want Me

  2. Encore

    1. 15Being Boiled
    2. 16Together in Electric Dreams (Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder cover)
    1. 1Mirror Man
    2. 2Heart Like a Wheel
    3. 3The Sound of the Crowd
    4. 4Open Your Heart
    5. 5Seconds
    6. 6The Lebanon
    7. 7Human
    8. 8Love Action (I Believe in Love)
    9. 9Tell Me When
    10. 10(Keep Feeling) Fascination
    11. 11Together in Electric Dreams (Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder cover)
    12. 12Don't You Want Me

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FAQS

The Human League will celebrate 40 years of Dare in the following UK towns and cities:

  • Leeds
  • Birmingham
  • Hull
  • Newcastle
  • Glasgow
  • Manchester
  • London
  • Nottingham
  • Swindon
  • Brighton
  • Cardiff
  • Bournemouth

The Human League announced the Dare 40 tour, performing across the UK in December 2021.

The Human League will be supported by Altered Image and Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins on select dates. Please check individual listings.

As of 2020, The Human League are:

  • Philip Oakley
  • Joanne Catherall
  • Susan Ann Sulley

The Human League's songs include:

  • Don't You Want Me
  • Love Action
  • The Sound Of The Crowd
  • Open Your Heart
  • The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
  • Human
  • The Lebanon
  • Mirror Man
  • (Keep Feeling) Fascination

Reviews

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 based on 69 reviews
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  • Absolutely brilliant

    by Skrimmers on 15/12/2024OVO Arena, Wembley - LondonRating: 5 out of 5

    What a fabulous evening! The support bands were fantastic and The Human League just superb!

  • Great Concert in Leeds

    by V&C on 15/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    Human League were just as good as ever. Had forgotten how many great songs they had. Support acts brilliant - T'Pau and Sophie Ellis-Bexter. The only thing I would say is Leeds First Direct Arena needs to have big side screens for 14k. The support act would have been difficult as not lit up that well and black curtain behind them. If curtain lifted they could have made use of screen there light they did for Human League. Leeds Arena need to improve this. I prefer Nottingham Arena personally but Human League were not going there on this tour.

  • Brilliant night

    by HJ on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    Top class concert , just like being back in the 80's

  • Christmas Fun with Human League

    by SandPen on 14/12/2024OVO Hydro - GlasgowRating: 4 out of 5

    Excellent seats with a great view. Both support acts and Human League gave 100% on the night.

  • FABULOUS ENTS.

    by Rachey from Sheff. on 14/12/2024Rating: 5 out of 5

    I had such a good time and was surprised by the quality support bands b4 HL.I enjoyed reminissing my 1980s nightclub dancing songs from The Human League who i ve always loved n bought DARE too when it was released in 1980s.The band are amazing live and all 3 still brill voices n amazingly gorgeous beings.Thks for a fab night,loved the new musisians too adding a brill techno sound to all the songs.It was overall much better than i expected and loved that you cud see the fab 3 up on the big screens too as i ws at the back.Keep on keeping on,theyre getting better with age.Very grateful.Will go see them again.

  • Human League

    by Jo on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    Amazing Amazing Amazing nothing like being taken back to their glory days and fabulous music

  • Thumping night

    by Moi on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 4 out of 5

    Great Friday night. Human League excellent with great music and songs. The base was banging and the whole place rocked. Sophie Ellis-Bextor also fantastic…. Bundle of energy ….. electric. Partially spoiled by 2 women behind who have talked (shouted) over the music despite being shushed….. why do they come!

  • Good night out

    by A sound from the crowd on 14/12/2024OVO Hydro - GlasgowRating: 4 out of 5

    Almost didn't get to the gig because the Ticketmaster app was continually crashing. T'Pau were very good CD's voice is still really powerful. SEB was fantastic, she really owned the stage and worked the crowd. The Human League put on a good, professional show but didn't really engage with the crowd.

  • Brilliant

    by Sparky on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    Fantastic performance from The Human League, we really enjoyed the concert, great venue!

  • Amazing gig

    by Mc on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    The whole performance was excellent. Lighting sound and staging were amazing

  • Phenomenal performance

    by Von on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    Absolutely brilliant enjoyed Sophie Ellis Bexter she did a great warm up prior to the Human League who were exceptional as always will keep supporting them

  • Human league tour leeds

    by Sue N on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 4 out of 5

    I was sat in block 328 Row P seat 1 This is quite high up and did have a quite a good view of the stage but I was disappointed as they didn't use the side projector screen to be able to fully see all the Acts on before human league and they only use the back part of the staging set to enlarge some visuals when humans league was peeforming Sound quality was really good and the set design graphics were too

  • Great bands

    by Lynn T on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 4 out of 5

    Great evening of music Sophie Ellis Bextor was a revelation. The Human League did not disappoint. The only issue I have is with the number of people who arrive late, drunk, in and out of their seat to get more booze. Spilling it everywhere. The poor stewards were up and down the stairs mopping split alcohol all night. That said it was a fantastic show

  • A night we'll worth waiting for

    by One Happy Chappy on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    Everything was awesome. If I had two criticism to make The seats were not very comfortable and unfortunately when the guy in front of you gets up to take pics, my view was blocked. But that's ti be expected lol

  • Memorable night

    by Ken on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 4 out of 5

    Sophie Ellis Bextor warm up performance was excellent, crowd pleaser. Human league stage set was very dramatic and impressive. Show was good but would have preferred more well known songs, not much audience participation between opening and closing couple of songs. Saw Human League in York and enjoyed the set there more.

  • Absolutely fantastic, just fabulous

    by Suehs on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    Phil Oakey has such great stage presence, great evening out. Loved it. A blast from the past.

  • Amazing!!!

    by Vicky on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    I've been so excited about the show and I wasn't disappointed. Absolutely amazing! Access and entry to the venue was seamless - I was worried about big queues and bottlenecks but not at all! T'Pau and Sophie Ellis Bextor were fantastic- I'll definitely be looking for tickets for them in future - especially Sophie Ellis Bextor. The human League were just awesome! The set, playlist, costumes, band- just everything was so much more than I could have expected! Just a note about Ticketmaster- I was worried about using the platform because I've heard some horror stories, but honestly- the experience couldn't have been smoother. The site and app were so easy to use, there was loads of comms prior to the event and I feel really confident about using the service in future.

  • Great - The Human League, Sophie EB and T'Pau were great

    by Limekiln on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    Fabulous show - T'Pau was a great warm and S-E-B had everyone up dancing! The HL playlist and stage were very good - all the hits. The centre screen really made it better so you could see the band and screen together!

  • Human League a mixed story.

    by Scrufty on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 2 out of 5

    They are a class act as we're the support and paid top dollar to be as close to the front as possible sat in row B. However event was ruined by people standing up and dancing in row A. For a seated event not one steward asked them to be seated. If people want to dance then they should buy a ticket in the right zone were dancing is permitted and not be so selfish and inconsiderate. So great band, but sadly a naff and ill disciplined venue.

  • Leeds 2024, fantastic

    by Electric Dreams on 14/12/2024First Direct Arena - LeedsRating: 5 out of 5

    Fantastic concert, could not fault any of the performance or the staging. Close your eyes and you are transported back to the Eighties. Simply class.