FANS of 60s psychedelia will welcome the return of one of the classic bands of the era when Love featuring Johnny Echols return to Merseyside. 

The band have a deep infinity with the region and played a three night residency at Birkenhead's Future Yard in 2022. 

This time around they play Liverpool's O2 Academy on Saturday, July 13. 

This tour will see Arthur Lee’s longest serving band return to the UK to perform classic songs from Love’s first three albums Love, Da Capo, Four Sail and of course Forever Changes as well as some special deep cuts. 

Following their farewell tour in 2019 the band hadn’t anticipated a return, but in 2022 the band did just that, as founding member and guitarist Echols said: “The unprecedented times in which we found ourselves made us realise more than ever that what the world needs now is LOVE. How could we turn down the opportunity to come back and do it again? We have missed playing for our fans in the UK whom we dearly love.”

In what has now turned into an annual UK tour, Love is set to return in summer 2024.

Echols said: “I so look forward to our trips across the pond and performing LOVE’s extraordinary music for our friends in the UK. We will, of course, be performing much of Forever Changes, as well as favourites from our extensive catalogue… as well as a few surprises. Don’t miss the LOVE-Boat!”

Joining Echols on stage is Baby Lemonade who from 1993 until Lee’s death in 2006 performed as his band and became an essential part of the renaissance of Love’s music. This iteration of Love saw many sold-out tours, as well as back-to-back Glastonbury performances and an appearance on Later with Jools Holland.

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