BRITs Week Together With O2 2020 Shows Announced

Bastille, Catfish and The Bottlemen, Bombay Bicycle Club, YUNGBLUD, Sigrid, Tom Walker, Louis Tomlinson, Jack Savoretti, Gang of Youths, Tom Grennan, Nothing But Thieves and Declan McKenna announced to play exclusive shows for BRITs Week Together With O2 For War Child. 

Prize draw is open now to win tickets* - Priority Tickets for O2 customers available from  9am Wednesday 15th Jan. General on sale from 9am Friday 17th Jan https://britsweekwarchild.co.uk/  

BRITs Week Together With O2 For War Child returns for its 6th year and another incredible series of gigs, giving fans the opportunity to see the biggest names in music in intimate venues across London – all whilst raising money for children whose lives have been torn apart by war. War Child UK raised an estimated £502,000 through BRITs Week shows last year. BRITs Week is produced by AEG Presents, BPI and War Child, the charity for children affected by conflict. The event series is sponsored by O2.   

  Amazon Music will be joining this year’s BRITs Week series as Official Digital Music Partner, as an extension of their partnership with the BRIT Awards 2020. You can check out the official BRIT Awards 2020 playlist on Amazon Music now.  

Multi-platinum selling BRIT Award winners Bastille will be performing their acclaimed Reorchestrated show with a six strong choir and nineteen piece orchestra at The London Palladium, while BRIT-winning live sensation Catfish and The Bottlemen play the first ever show at West London’s newest venue Exhibition London. Alongside this, returning indie chart-toppers Bombay Bicycle Club, Yorkshire’s genre-bending showman YUNGBLUD, Scandi-pop superstar Sigrid, 2019 BRITs British Breakthrough winner Tom Walker and English-Italian troubadour Jack Savoretti will all be performing in intimate and special venues across the capital. They’re joined on the bill by global megastar Louis Tomlinson, Aussie indie-rockers Gang of Youths, breakthrough singer-songwriter Tom Grennan, Southend’s alt-rock heroes Nothing But Thieves and London-born musician Declan McKenna.  

  The prize draw is open now and closes at 23:59 pm, Monday 3rd February. To enter the prize draw and win tickets to see the artist of their choice music fans can make a £5 donation to War Child at www.britsweekwarchild.co.uk. To maximise the chance of winning, fans can enter as many times as they like. There will also be a limited number of tickets for sale from 9am on Friday 17th January.   

  *For the Bastille and Catfish and The Bottlemen shows the prize draw will open once the limited tickets have sold out.  

  Tickets for some of the shows will be available to buy exclusively to O2 customers via Priority Tickets from 9am Wednesday 15th January.   

  BRITs Week will be partnering with Twickets across all shows as their ethical resale partner to ensure tickets for the shows can only be sold at face value.  

Rich Clarke, Head of Music at War Child added, “We’re over the moon to announce BRITs Week together with O2 for 2020, it’s an amazing series with the strongest line up yet. We’re so grateful for the support from the music industry – artists, managers, agents, labels as well as our incredible partners O2, the BPI and AEG to deliver these unique shows and create moments that will stay with the fans forever. This is our flagship fundraising series of live shows and the funds raised will change the lives of hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable children.”  

Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive BPI & BRIT Awards, said: “Looking back at some of the amazing acts that have performed in BRITs Week to raise money for War Child - including Coldplay, Florence + The Machine, Ed Sheeran, Jess Glynne, The 1975, Elbow, Mabel and Mahalia - you realise what an important celebration of the UK’s diverse music talent it has become. It is a fundamental element of the build up to the BRIT Awards with Mastercard, and with our partners AEG, O2 and War Child we are thrilled to announce the 2020 edition of BRITs Week, which also marks the 40th BRIT Awards show.”  

  Simon Jones, Senior Vice President of Live Music International, AEG Presents comments, “It’s great to have BRITs Week together with O2 back again for 2020, and we’re so pleased with the incredible calibre of acts that have agreed to be part of the series this year.  It again highlights amazing new talent, and it gives fans the opportunity to see huge established acts in small rooms, in the process raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for children in conflict with War Child.  Thanks to all the artists, managers, and labels for coming together and working with BPI, AEG, O2 and War Child to make it possible for BRITs Week to continue being an important industry fixture around the BRIT Awards, raising a huge amount of money for charity in the process.”  

  Gareth Griffiths, Head of Sponsorship at O2, comments, “We’re really proud to continue our longstanding partnership with The BPI and War Child to help drive meaningful change through the power of live music. Not only do these shows offer access to incredible artists in such intimate venues, but more importantly the funds support War Child’s invaluable work to help children all over the world who have been affected by war. O2 customers can buy Priority Tickets for the shows 48 hours before general release, helping raise money for this vital cause.”   

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BRITs Week Together With O2 For War Child  

BRITs Week Together With O2 For War Child is a joint partnership between War Child, BPI and AEG, one of the world’s leading live music promoters and owner of The O2, London.  O2 are the headline sponsor, promoting the series of shows to their customer base.  

About War Child UK                                  

War Child is striving for a world where children’s lives are no longer torn apart by war.  

 We protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children caught up in conflict. We aim to reach children as early as possible when conflict breaks out and stay to support them through their recovery - helping to keep them safe, give them an education, and equip them with skills for the future.  

 We understand children’s needs, respect their rights, and put them at the centre of the solution - from supporting Syrian children to access education, to reintegrating child soldiers in the Central African Republic and promoting justice for young people in detention in Afghanistan. Together with our partners we work in 15 countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and Latin America.  

 We also work with children and young people to change systems and practices that affect them – campaigning on the root causes of conflict and demanding that children are at the centre of humanitarian response.  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warchilduk/  

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarChildUK  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/warchilduk/  

Charity number: 1071659  

About The BRIT Awards – British Record Industry Trust  

The BRIT (British Record Industry Trust) Awards are organised by the BPI – the UK record labels’ association that promotes British music. The BPI’s membership is made up of over 430 independent labels as well as the UK’s three major record companies – collectively they account for around 85 per cent of the music consumed in the UK and around one in nine of all the artist albums sold around the world.  

The BRIT Awards 2020 with Mastercard will be the 40th BRIT Awards show, which, along with other music industry events, has raised over £25m for The BRIT Trust charity, whose main beneficiaries include The BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology www.brit.croydon.sch.uk, music therapy charity Nordoff-Robbins www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk, Mind www.mind.org.uk and other selected charities which promote education and wellbeing through music.  

 Over 8,000 young people have been given free education and the opportunity to enter the BRIT School since its opening in 1991 and more than 10,000 children and adults have been helped by the extraordinary music therapy work carried out by Nordoff-Robbins.  

About AEG  

AEG is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world. AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Anschutz Company, owns or controls a collection of companies including facilities such as STAPLES Center, StubHub Center, Sprint Center, Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE, Best Buy Theater Times Square and London’s The O2; sports franchises including the Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings (NHL), two Major League Soccer franchises, two hockey franchises operated in Europe, management of privately held shares of the Los Angeles Lakers and the Amgen Tour of California cycling road race; AEG Live, the organization's live-entertainment division, is a collection of companies dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performance, touring and a variety of programming and multi-media production while AEG Facilities operates or consults with an international network of more than 100 elite venues and AEG Global Partnerships, responsible for worldwide sales and servicing of sponsorships naming rights and other strategic partnerships.  

 For more information, visit AEG today at www.aegworldwide.com  

AEG’s European headquarters are located in London.  

About Telefónica UK / O2   

O2 is a mobile network operator and the principal commercial brand of Telefónica UK Limited, which is part of the global telecommunications group Telefónica S.A, headquartered in Spain and operating in Europe, and North, Central and South America.  

 O2 was awarded Best Network Coverage in 2019 by uSwitch, for a second year in a row, and with over 34 million connections to the network, it runs 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G services across the UK, as well as operating its nationwide O2 Wifi service.  

  The company is the network of choice for mobile virtual network operators such as giffgaff, Sky Mobile and Lyca Mobile as well as managing a 50:50 joint venture with Tesco for Tesco Mobile.  

O2 has around 6,700 employees and over 450 retail stores and sponsors England Rugby, The O2 and 20 O2 Academy music venues across the UK. Through a comprehensive sustainability strategy O2 is also creating work experience opportunities for 16-24 year olds via its GoThinkBig platform, enabling customers to reduce their impact on the environment by recycling their old devices through O2 Recycle and, in partnership with the NSPCC, helping parents to keep their children safe online.  

 O2 is the only mobile operator in the 2019 Social Mobility Employer Index and was named as one of the best places to work in the 2019 Glassdoor Employee’s Choice Award.  

Telefónica UK Limited is registered in England and Wales. Registration number: 1743099.  Its registered office is at: 260 Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4DX, United Kingdom.  

About Amazon Music  

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