Eddie Vedder joined The Who on stage during the band’s Teenage Cancer Trust show in London last night (March 20) –
The Who and Vedder have teamed up numerous times previously, including at a private cancer benefit show in Los Angeles in 2022 and a charity event in Chicago in 2015.
The group played their second orchestral show of the week at the historic Royal Albert Hall after kicking off the 2024 TCT concert series on Monday (March 18).
Watch the Who opening night videos HERE
Noel Gallagher, The Chemical Brothers also to play 2024 Teenage Cancer Trust gigs.
On the line-up for the final show will be Daltrey, Kelly Jones, Robert Plant with Saving Grace, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder and Paul Weller.
This year’s edition of the charity’s annual run of concerts – curated by The Who’s Roger Daltrey – is due to take place at the Royal Albert Hall between March 18 and March 24.
Daltrey and The Who they opened the series with two gigs on March 18 and 20, with an evening of comedy in between the two shows. Gallagher will be supported by Blossoms for his gig on March 21, before gigs from The Chemical Brothers and Young Fathers on the following two nights.
“I didn’t know we were going to be playing Tommy,” Pete Townshend gripes at his sole remaining Who bandmate Roger Daltrey, bickering over the setlist like two old dears over a bingo bar tab. “I’ve got a list, but I can’t see it,” Daltrey replies, more genial grandpa than golden god at 80. As Daltrey fumbles the odd microphone twirl and Townshend misses his guitar entirely mid-windmill and complains that someone in the audience is remotely adjusting his app-controlled hearing aids, you wouldn’t trust The Who with their own pension books, let alone a computerised cold call.
The week kicks off on Monday 18 March with The Who plus orchestra headlining the first night with their special guests the fabulous Squeeze. And both bands will be back on Wednesday 20 March to play a second night!
Wednesday 20 March sees The Who plus orchestra and their special guests Squeeze appearing for their second night.
Thursday 21 March will be a return to the TCT week of shows at the Royal Albert Hall from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds with their special guests, Stockport indie band Blossoms.
Friday night 22 March sees the amazing trio, Young Fathers on stage at the Albert Hall.
Saturday 23 March opens the weekend up with The Chemical Brothers and DJ James Holroyd.
Roger Daltrey has today announced that after 24 years of hosting the Teenage Cancer Trust shows he is to step down as curator. To mark and celebrate those incredible 24 years, this glorious week of TCT shows at the Royal Albert Hall will close on Sunday 24 March with ‘Ovation’, a Celebration of 24 Years of Gigs for TCT with an unbelievable line up of Roger Daltrey, Kelly Jones, Robert Plant with Saving Grace, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder and Paul Weller!
The Who’s Roger Daltrey stepping down as curator of Teenage Cancer Trust gigs.
The Who star Daltrey has driven every show since his band kickstarted the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series back in 2000.
The Who’s Roger Daltrey & Pete Townshend Teen Cancer America gets new song from John Oates.
Oates said he wrote the breezy tune during the Covid-19 pandemic when he was searching for “any positive vibe I could up with.” He began sketching the song on GarageBand, but as it came together, he “decided to really produce the track the way I would have in a professional recording studio.”
“ The band members were in the midst of recording their Quadrophenia LP when we received a call from Joanna Lumley,the actress. -Townshend recalls - She invited to meet her in London, So I declined, but I offered to send one of the bandmates instead — and Moon volunteered because he was very much hoping that it would lead to something sexual”.
“ Moon's meeting with Lumley it turned out that what she’d done is invited him to the very, very first women’s refuge in the world (also named as [the domestic violence shelter) Chiswick’s Women’s Aid, founded in 1971. And Joanna got him cleaning toilets. He came back in tears. And he said, ‘Pete, we’ve got to do something for these women!’"
Moon's conversion took on added meaning for Townshend later, after he realized Moon had been guilty of "real violent outbursts against his wife" during moments when he suspected her of infidelity — sadly ironic because, as Townshend pointed out, "in fact, it was the other way around." In seeing the error of his ways and spurring the band to action, Moon helped spark a lifetime of efforts on behalf of others.
"We started to do shows for the woman who started [the refuge]. And that’s how charity work began for me and for the band. And we’ve gone on from there," added Townshend. "Anyway, that was a great moment. And it was one of the nicest stories about Keith, I think: that something had touched his heart, because usually he would turn everything into a gag."
