The Chameleons Announce “Home Is Where The Heart Is: Resurrection” Show & Additional UK Tour Dates

This December The Chameleons will take fans back-to-the-future with a huge gig for the ages, The Chameleons: Home Is Where The Heart Is…2022: Resurrection – The Academy Set From June 2000. With demand to see the pre-Christmas homecoming of the cult Manchester outfit at an all-time high, The Chameleons have revealed some spectacular plans for what will be the seventh edition of Home Is Where The Heart Is. Few bands are granted a second shot to return to their career peaks, but on Saturday 17th December 2022 The Chameleons will do just that as they headline the major stage of Manchester Academy for the first time in over 2 decades. The Chameleons will also be appearing at an extensive run of UK tour dates throughout December and have already announced shows in 2023, including a unique show at The Devil’s Arse Cave on July 7th.

There are some gigs in every band’s career that simply stand out from the pack. Ask any Chameleons die-hard fan and they’ll tell you that the band’s show at Manchester Academy in the blazing hot summer of June 2000 was precisely one of those. With the 2000 plus crowd baying for “more” long after the lights went up after a blistering second encore of Don’t Fall and a deafening, feedback-skewered cover of Alternative TV‘s Splitting In Two; 20 years later, those calls will be answered. The Chameleons now look to recapture the magic of another of their seminal performances. This December, The Chameleons will perform a Resurrection show that will take the Manchester Academy audience back in time to June 2000, as they recreate one of their most legendary sets in it’s full and complete glory. 

For some the Academy gig will be a second chance to relive one of their favourite ever performances, for others a redemptive opportunity to finally say “I Was There” too. From the reverberating bars of set-opener Swamp Thing, to the hurricane force of A Person Isn’t Safe Anywhere These Days, expect to be blown away as the band unfurl the enigmatic majesties of their greatest tracks heightened with tempestuous live versions: through Second Skin, to Soul In Isolation, to Perfume Garden. As a tantalising added bonus, the forthcoming Academy show will also see founding guitarist Reg Smithies resuming position alongside long-standing Chameleons Vox custodian Mark Burgess.

Every year, the Home Is Where The Heart Is… series has seen the influential frontman of digging deep into the cult band’s coveted back-catalogue to unearth forgotten gems and glittering rarities to perform live to an audience that is growing exponentially year on year. Following shows in Manchester Academy and the O2 Ritz, in 2022 Mark and co. will truly return home to where the heart is. As in previous years, the annual winter shindig will see The Chameleons invite their allies new and old to perform as part of the line up. This year, revellers can look forward to sets from Theatre Of Hate and cult new wave band B-Movie as both acts round off their 2022 tours at this fixture.