ORIGINALLY formed in 1991 to celebrate guitarist Tom McGuinness’ 50th birthday, The Manfreds show no sign of stopping.

Made up of four members of the original Manfred Mann, who had hits with Mighty Quinn, Pretty Flamingo and Do Wah Diddy Diddy among many others.

Guitarist Tom McGuinness, keyboard player Mike Hugg (who formed the Mann Hugg Blues Brothers in 1962 with Manfred Mann), and original singer Paul Jones, are all part of the band today – along with Marcus Cliffe on bass, Simon Currie on sax and flute plus Rob Townshend on drums.

The Manfreds will be bringing their hits, jazz & blues show to The Forum 28, Barrow, on September 13.

For the tour, the band has had to make some changes, as Paul explains.

“We have a couple of new things," he said. "There’s a feature tune from sax player Simon Currie from his new album, and bassist Marcus will be featured on a song from his new album – a Curtis Mayfield song called People Get Ready.”

“How Lucky Can One Man Be is a song from Tom McGuinness’s latest album and there’ll be one from my current album Straighten Up And Fly Right which was written by Nat ‘King’ Cole.

“The rest will be pretty much all Manfred Mann songs, but probably a few more obscure EP and album tracks as well as the hits.”

The Portsmouth-born singer is looking forward to the UK dates.

“We shall attack them with gusto and some musical expertise.

“Don’t miss this. Firstly because it’s a line-up you may never hear again and we fire off each other.”

Tickets from 01229 820000.