Fans of Stranger Things will soon be able to see the music from the show performed as part of an immersive concert tour.
The hit Netflix series came to a conclusion with its two-hour season five finale on New Year’s Eve, in which the heroic group of friends came together one final time to defeat the evil Vecna.
Now, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, the two men behind the show’s Emmy-winning original score who are also one half of the Texas-based band Survive, have announced that they will be playing a live celebration of the entire saga of the show’s music on stage in the coming months.
The show will span all five seasons of the show, from its 2016 opening theme to the climax of the season five finale, and they will be playing in Prague, Brussels and Berlin before arriving in the UK for shows in Belfast and Birmingham and then London’s Roundhouse on June 21. They will then round off the run in Italy on June 26.
Tickets for the show are on sale now and you can find yours here.
Dixon and Stein have partnered with visual artist MFO, aka Marcel Weber, for the shows, and it will feature customised light and fog effects to recreate the show’s distinctive aesthetic.
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein will play:
APRIL
25 – Prague, Prague Composers Summit
JUNE
10 – Brussels, Ancienne Belgique
15 – Berlin, Theater Des Westens
17 – Belfast, Waterfront Hall
19 – Birmingham, Symphony Hall
21 – London, Roundhouse
26 – Fiastra, Italy, Fiastrapalooza
The show’s final episode proved to be controversial, with some fans disappointed that Millie Bobby Brown’s character Eleven’s fate remained ambiguous, while others subscribed to the now-debunked Conformity Gate theory, which speculated that a surprise final ninth episode was in the works to undo some of the revelations of the finale.
The final episode also made waves musically, with streams of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ and ‘When Doves Cry’ more than doubling on Spotify after their inclusion in the episode. Iron Maiden have since celebrated their track ‘The Trooper’ being included, while David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ also saw a huge streaming surge.
There are two spinoff series currently in the works in the Stranger Things universe. One is a live-action show that the Duffer brothers have described as exploring “new characters and a new mythology”, but without the characters from the main show. The other is a separate animated spinoff coming, titled Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85, which will be out in April.
The complete Stranger Things collection will also be released on physical media for the first time in July as a Blu-ray and 4K UHD box set.