Portman Road is set to stage its first concerts in four years next summer, TWTD has learned, with Barry Manilow amongst those in line to appear.

Veteran American singer-songwriter Manilow, 70, is touring next year, having already confirmed some US dates, and we understand Portman Road is one of the venues pencilled in for the UK leg.

P!nk’s 2010 concert was the last gig staged at Town, while REM, Rod Stewart, Status Quo, Neil Diamond and Elton John are amongst those to have previously played at Portman Road.

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itfchorry added 22:36 - Aug 27 Are we all ready ? Clegg has gone..... Could it be majic now !
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itfchorry added 22:45 - Aug 27 Even magic !
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soclopath added 23:26 - Aug 27 Club are looking for a local company to sponsor his Mobility Scooter.
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harlingblue added 00:42 - Aug 28 Wouldn't have been my choice as a return to Music at Portman Road...but he is a top liner, our own Ed Sheeran would be a great crowd puller? But great to see us getting back on the right track, and even the chance of an U21 International game?
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BrettenhamBlue added 07:02 - Aug 28 Hopefully we will be singing "Looks like we made it" as we score a last-minute winner against Wednesday on the last day of the season which keeps us up....
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MVBlue added 07:02 - Aug 28 Enough of the pop, there should be more rock and alternative, Blur, Stone Roses, Muse, Oasis reunion, Kasabian, U2. Get them in.
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brittaniaman added 08:08 - Aug 28 It will not be this season we will see him lads ???????
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kiwiblue added 10:21 - Aug 28 aimed at the oldies with the most disposable income........ widen the emergency exits for zimmer frames ambulance entrance and the mass of wheelchairs and mobility scooters. surely not a crowd puller? grab a Granny night.....
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Popeye added 11:44 - Aug 28 What position does he play?
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Guru_of_Ipswich added 12:11 - Aug 28 Where's Clegg when you need him?
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BlueVelvet added 12:43 - Aug 28 says a lot about Ipswich, suffolk and east anglia these days. when I was a kid acts like The Stranglers, Thin Lizzy etc would come to town, now its just ancient stadia stars
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BlueVelvet added 12:49 - Aug 28 melbournevicblue - I like the idea of the roses coming, saw them when they were a young band at Spike island Widnes in 1990 in the madchester days - brilliant
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PeekFreans added 13:42 - Aug 28 BlueVelvet......the Gaumont days were a right of passage weren't they....I saw so many bands there. Barry Manilow? Really?
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BlueVelvet added 13:29 - Aug 29 peekfreans - only access kids get today to big bands are at big city venues or annual middle class festivals with ray bans, wellies, moshing and sitting on shoulders and mouthing pretending to know the words to songs
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h32 added 22:15 - Aug 29 ..... hope he brings his boots - if he can score goals (or even one) - sign him up. It would have to be 'on loan' tho' - we couldn't afford to buy him ! - or anyone else, it appears. Happy Days !!
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h32 added 22:16 - Aug 29 ....... after all he is only 70 ...... !!
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