Leo Sayer returns to Mandurah Performing Arts Centre for first solo Aussie tour in six years

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Leo Sayer is coming to Mandurah for his first Australian tour in six years.
Leo Sayer is coming to Mandurah for his first Australian tour in six years. Credit: John Eaden
After his latest sold-out UK and Ireland tour, music legend Leo Sayer's Still Feel Like Dancing! Australia tour will hit the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre stage on September 11.
As an international chart-topper throughout the late 70s and 80s, the British-born singer has called Australia home for most of the millennium and said he was excited to perform in intimate theatres nationwide for the first time since 2019.
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The British-born 80s icon will come to Mandurah Performing Arts Centre on September 11.
Credit: John Eaden
'We intentionally choose smaller scale venues because it feels nice to perform intimate theatres,' he said.
'I'm very happy doing these places because there's a real shared experience between the audience and the band. There's no clever tricks, no backing tracks, no dancers, just the interplay of the musicians which is nice for audiences to come up close and see.'
Sayer said concerts today were very different to how the icons of the 70s and 80s used to do it.
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Sayer said he's excited to strip things back for an intimate performance with his band.
Credit: John Eaden
'Not to sound critical but I think technology has come in and changed a lot; there's great artists out there today whose shows are more manufactured than what we were doing,' he said.
'There's so much between you and an audience at a big show and sometimes it's too much.
'The efforts have to come from the acts themselves and for us it's time standing still; we're still doing the things we did all those years ago and it's nice that it hasn't evolved.'
Performing top hits like Thunder In My Heart, More Than I Can Say and tour namesake You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, Sayer promised a hit-packed, high-energy evening not to miss.
Tickets are available on the Leo Sayer website or the MPAC website.