Marc Almond in Parma

Marc Almond is an English singer and songwriter, born in Southport in 1957. He first became known as the vocalist of Soft Cell, the synth-pop duo he formed with Dave Ball in Leeds in 1977. Their album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret produced “Tainted Love” and “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye”; his solo catalogue includes “The Days of Pearly Spencer” and the Gene Pitney duet “Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart.” In 2001, Marc Almond returned to the stage with Dave Ball for Soft Cell reunion concerts, followed by touring around the album Cruelty Without Beauty. His other stage work has included Ten Plagues, the Mark Ravenhill and Conor Mitchell song cycle premiered at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre in 2011. In 2018, he and Ball brought Soft Cell’s farewell concert, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, to London’s O2 Arena.