50-year-old Alfie, who was born in Blackpool and grew up in Fleetwood, is heading back out on a UK tour this summer, following a run of sold-out dates last year. In March, the former Cardinal Allen Catholic High School pupil also added five extra dates to the tour due to popular demand, one of which will take place in Blackpool. Alfie is now set to bring his show ‘Encore’ to the Blackpool Opera House on Friday, July 5- and it will even be the finale event to the tour.
” Alfie: “Encore is sort of a spinoff from my previous tour, which was open arms. Encore means come back on and sing another song so there'll be a few changes to the set. I want to incorporate more songs that reflect my childhood growing up in the northwest. I want to sing some cool old classic songs that my dad used to play. It was real fun stuff that he used to put on the record player, like cool old country songs and things like that.