Charity Teenage Cancer Trust’s historic annual Royal Albert Hall concert series returns for a momentous year, celebrating the work of its founder and curator, rock legend Roger Daltrey, as he bows out as the driving force of these very special concerts.
18 - 24 March 2024
Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 12 January HERE
Show Dates:
March 2024:
Mon 18 - The Who with Orchestra, with special guests Squeeze
Tue 19 - Evening Of Comedy - line-up to be announced
Weds 20 - The Who with Orchestra, with very special guests Squeeze
Thurs 21 - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, with very special guests Blossoms
Fri 22 - Young Fathers plus special guests
Sat 23 - The Chemical Brothers
Sun 24 - ‘Ovation’ - A Celebration of 24 Years of Gigs For Teenage Cancer Trust with:
Roger Daltrey, Kelly Jones, Robert Plant with Saving Grace, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder, Paul Weller
The Who singer, who will continue as a Teenage Cancer Trust Honorary Patron, has tirelessly fundraised and advocated for the charity for nearly a quarter of a century. A key part of this has been Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall, the now iconic, annual concert series taking place at one of the world’s most prestigious concert venues.
For 22 editions, Roger has persuaded some of the greatest artists on the planet to perform unique, one night only gigs to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust, generating over £32 million from ticket sales alone and spreading word of this extraordinary charity far and wide. That money is enough to pay for over a million hours of specialist care from Teenage Cancer Trust nurses, or 13 Teenage Cancer Trust hospital units. In 2000, when the gigs began, Teenage Cancer Trust was a much smaller organisation with only 5 hospital units across the whole of the UK and far fewer nurses and youth support workers.
Roger Daltrey says simply, "The £32 million raised from these concerts has been the foundation for the 28 specialised units within the NHS, as well as specialist nurses and youth workers to be there for a young person when cancer has turned their world upside down."
From 2025, Teenage Cancer Trust will be working with a series of guest curators to take the shows forward and into the future, continuing the vital work and once in a lifetime nights.
And for his 22nd year as the boss, we can today announce an extraordinary line up of some of the biggest and most acclaimed artists around. Tickets go on sale at 9am Friday January 12th and are expected to sell very quickly. For a chance to be in the room for these iconic nights and support this fantastic charity, music fans will need to get online as soon as they can.
This includes three nights of celebrations of Roger himself. First with his band The Who, returning on Monday 18 March and Wednesday 20 March with an orchestra to mark how the concert series started in 2000, alongside very special guests, new wave rock legends, Squeeze, who are themselves celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.
Also ‘Ovation’- A Celebration of 24 Years of Gigs For Teenage Cancer Trust on Sunday 24 March - featuring Roger’s friends and fans, many of those who helped establish these gigs as a celebrated annual event - Roger himself, with Kelly Jones, Robert Plant with Saving Grace, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder and Paul Weller.
This incredible week of performances from 18 to 24 of March will also see Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Young Fathers and Chemical Brothers take to the Royal Albert Hall stage, as well as the legendary Night Of Comedy - full line-up to be announced soon but, as ever, expect the most in demand stars of the comedy scene all in one night.