Michael Ball & Alfie Boe

Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are back on tour, and this time it’s personal. Together At Home, the pair’s sixth studio album, marks their 10th year making music together and is the much-loved collaborators’ hymn to the people and places that mean the most to them – and to their army of fans. They will be joined on tour by The Conjurors.

The chart-topping, arena-filling, multi-million-selling duo’s first taste arrives in the shape of ‘Proud’ - the timeless 2000 debut solo single from former M People singer Heather Small.
 
“It's a song that was used for the 2012 London Olympics,” begins Ball. “We’re proud of where we're from. Proud of this country, of being British and welcoming people home. And welcoming people into our home,” Boe adds pointedly, “is something that I think is important.”

Each singer is long used to being away on tour for months on end, so, when it came to selecting songs for the new album, for each of them, certain songs were immediate no-brainers. Considerably less of a familiar standard was one of Boe’s first suggestions. Trawling through Spotify, he stumbled across a song titled ‘Welcome Home’ by a little known band actually called The Welcome Home, from the college town of Athens, Georgia. With the feel of a modern, secular hymn, or Coldplay-gone-Deep South, it immediately spoke to Boe.

Together At Home follows the phenomenal success of the duo’s previous five duet albums; Their debut Together, became the UK’s best-selling album of 2016, beating The Rolling Stones to the Christmas No.1 spot.