A must-see concert tribute to the world’s greatest instrumental group takes place at Paignton’s Palace Theatre on June 8.

The Bootleg Shadows offer an outstanding tribute for a night of foot tapping classics, celebrating the music of The Shadows and Cliff Richard, with plenty of humour to make it a night out to remember.

In June 1960 Hank B Marvin, Bruce Welch, Jet Harris and Tony Meehan recorded Apache. This charted in July and became the monster hit that launched the Shadows instrumental career and founded a nation of bespectacled guitarists dreaming of acquiring their very own Fender Stratocaster and stepping out into the glaring spotlight of stardom.

With their immaculate appearance, synchronised dance movements and clean, pure melodic sound, the Shadows chalked up 35 hits of their own (not counting another 33 hits with Cliff Richard), giving them more hits than any other British group and securing them a unique place in the annals of popular music.

The Shadows no longer tour but the Bootleg Shadows keep their ‘live’ sound and spirit going by performing concerts that encompasses the Shadows amazing career from 1960 up until the early 80s. The audiences will be invited to relive such fantastic hits such as Foot Tapper, Dance On, Atlantis, Wonderful Land, The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt Don’t Cry for Me Argentina, FBI plus many more.

In the company of Geoff, Howard, Nathan, Tim and Binks the audience will be taken on a tour of the Shadows musical career, as well as some hit songs from “Cliff” as well as some fabulous “wild cards.”

For anyone who loves the sounds and nostalgia of this time – and enjoys a few laughs on the way –the band perform a unique tribute that has audiences humming the tunes and doing the Shadows famous ‘walk’ long after they have left the theatre.

Tickets for the gig can be booked at www.palacetheatrepaignton.co.uk.