Scouting For Girls Join Sophie Ellis-Bextor at The Piece Hall in 2027
The Piece Hall has booked a double dose of British pop for next summer: Sophie Ellis-Bextor will headline the Halifax courtyard on Friday 2 July 2027, with Scouting For Girls joining her as special guests.
It is a pairing built for a crowd that likes its choruses big and its dancing unashamed. Ellis-Bextor brings a catalogue that runs from the early-2000s disco-pop of Murder on the Dancefloor to her Kitchen Disco era; Scouting For Girls arrive with She’s So Lovely, Heartbeat, Elvis Ain’t Dead and the number-one single This Ain’t a Love Song in their armoury.
For Monkey readers, the Scouting For Girls booking gives the announcement an extra local pull. The band’s relationship with Huddersfield audiences goes back through Red Cape and HuddsFest history, while The Piece Hall is close enough to turn a summer Friday into a proper West Yorkshire night out.
A return to Halifax — this time at the top of the bill
Sophie Ellis-Bextor has already played The Piece Hall as a guest of Nile Rodgers & CHIC. In July she returns as the headliner, with the scale of the courtyard now matched to a catalogue that has found more than one generation of listeners.
Murder on the Dancefloor originally reached number two in 2001, then climbed back to the same peak in early 2024 after its Saltburn-powered revival. Official Charts later named it the biggest song of 2024 by a British female artist — a rare second life that has made an already familiar encore feel current again.
The Piece Hall announcement promises Ellis-Bextor’s disco-pop sound in the open-air courtyard, while the practical set-up points to a full summer production rather than a quick festival appearance: doors open at 6pm, last entry is 8pm and the show is due to finish at approximately 10.30pm.
Scouting For Girls bring the singalongs
Scouting For Girls are listed as special guests, not a token early support. Roy Stride, Greg Churchouse and Peter Ellard have spent nearly two decades refining the sort of live set where the audience becomes the fourth member before the first chorus is over.
Their self-titled debut reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, while This Ain’t a Love Song spent two weeks at number one in 2010. She’s So Lovely, Elvis Ain’t Dead and Heartbeat all reached the UK Top 10, which gives a support slot plenty of familiar material without leaning on just one song.
That makes the running order unusually well matched. Scouting For Girls can warm the courtyard with guitar-and-piano pop built for communal singing; Ellis-Bextor can turn the same space into an outdoor disco as the light drops over Halifax.
The Piece Hall’s 2027 season keeps growing
The booking joins a 2027 programme that already includes Kraftwerk and an ’80s bill led by Bananarama, Tony Hadley and Altered Images. It follows a record 2026 season in which The Piece Hall reported 42 headline shows, 225,000 tickets sold and 28 sell-outs.
That scale is important, but the setting remains the selling point. The Georgian cloth hall’s courtyard can hold a major touring production without feeling like an anonymous arena, and the surrounding colonnades give even a mainstream pop show a recognisably Yorkshire frame.
Monkey has already covered the venue’s Kraftwerk announcement and its Bananarama, Tony Hadley and Altered Images show. This new date shifts the mood from electronic precision and ’80s nostalgia to a broad, family-spanning pop night.
Tickets and essential information
Sophie Ellis-Bextor with special guests Scouting For Girls plays The Piece Hall, Blackledge, Halifax HX1 1RE, on Friday 2 July 2027. Doors open at 6pm, last entry is 8pm and the event is expected to finish by 10.30pm.
Under-14s must be accompanied by an adult and children under six are not permitted. The show will be BSL interpreted. General admission, balcony and Live at Lounge options are listed through the official Piece Hall event page; booking fees apply. Tickets are now on general sale.
Monkey Supporter spotlight: Scapegoat at Weavers Shed
Closer to home and sooner in the diary, paying Monkey Supporter venue Weavers Shed in Golcar has Scapegoat York live on Saturday 14 November. The band’s own event listing gives an 8pm start at 86 Knowl Road, Huddersfield HD7 4AN.
It is exactly the sort of local room the GigsList exists to back: a named band, a confirmed date and a supporter venue putting live music in front of its weekend crowd. See the Scapegoat event listing and check with the venue for any late changes.
Sources and photo credit
Event details: The Piece Hall and Live Nation. Chart references: Official Charts — Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Official Charts — Scouting For Girls.
Cover and body photograph: Sophie Ellis-Bextor performing beneath orange stage lights. Official promotional image supplied through The Piece Hall event page; no individual photographer is named by the venue.