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MIKE OLDFIELD’S TUBULAR BELLS IN CONCERT show already in March in Prague! Enjoy the cult album live in concert.
Mike Oldfield’s iconic album – Tubular Bells will be heard in the O2 universum already on 23.3. 2025 under the baton of the author’s friend and collaborator, Robin Smith. Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells in Concert will also feature other iconic songs such as Moonlight Shadow, Summit Day, Family Man and Ommadawn.
Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells in Concert show is conducted by Robin Smith, who is a keen collaborator of Mike Oldfield and has loved the Tubular Bells album since he first heard it in 1973. Smith then collaborated with Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells 2 and 3, including live performances at Edinburgh Castle, Horseguards Parade in London, The Millennium Bell in Berlin or in 2012 in London.
“Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells in Concert premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in London in August 2021 to great success. It’s a celebration and tribute to Mike Oldfield, who in my opinion is one of the greatest English composers of the last century. For me personally, as well as for other fellow musicians, it is a real privilege to play this extraordinary work. The album is as fresh and relevant today as when Mike created it in 1971. And I love the opportunity to introduce it to new audiences as well as those who, like me, have been completely enthralled for decades whenever they hear this piece,” Robin Smith enthuses about Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells in Concert show.
Mike Oldfield is a British composer, multi-instrumentalist and musical visionary who laid the foundations of world electronic music. He became famous as a composer and producer with his debut studio album Tubular Bells, which was praised by critics and loved by listeners. Although Oldfield is primarily a guitarist, he plays a number of other instruments such as keyboards and percussion, including tubular bells, i.e. 12 chrome tube bells, whose monumental sound gave the album a unique sound. During his career, Mike Oldfield has gone across many musical styles and genres from progressive rock to world music, folk, and especially electronic, ambient and new age music.
Tubular Bells was first released in 1973 and became the best-selling instrumental album of all time. Mike Oldfield composed it two years earlier and recorded all the instruments himself. The Tubular Bells album gained worldwide popularity thanks to the movie The Exorcist, in which the first part of this album was used. In the UK alone, Tubular Bells have sold almost 3 million.
“Tubular Bells never seem to get old, and that’s amazing. It takes you on a journey through progressive rock and electronica, blues, folk, jazz and classical, evoking melodic beauty and drama. We’ve had so many tears of emotion from audiences and so many amazing stories since the very first Tubular Bells shows,” adds Robin Smith about a track that was perhaps destined to send waves of emotion through people.
Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells in Concert music show also features other works by Mike Oldfield including Moonlight Shadow, Summit Day, Family Man and Ommadawn. The show will be presented to Czech viewers in the popular venue O2 universum as early as March 23, 2025.