Tubular Bells | Celebrating the visionary music of Mike Oldfield

Name: Tubular Bells | Celebrating the visionary music of Mike Oldfield
Start: 2026-09-07T20:15:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-07T20:15:00+02:00
Location: de Doelen

took place · 7 Sep 2026

de Doelen, Rotterdam

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A concert at de Doelen, Rotterdam, paying tribute to the music of Mike Oldfield. The programme centres on Tubular Bells and Oldfield's broader contribution to progressive rock.

About: Mike Oldfield

At nineteen, Mike Oldfield rewrote the rules of British rock with Tubular Bells - an album that spent five years in the UK charts and bankrolled the early years of Virgin Records. His catalogue of twenty-five studio albums and a Grammy Award continues to draw audiences to concert halls around the world.

2.2M

monthly listeners on Spotify

15M+

worldwide sales of Tubular Bells

studio albums released

position of Tubular Bells in the British album chart

What's new

2025-06
Grammy-nominated conductor Robin Smith announced a new UK tour for February and March 2026, featuring music from all three Tubular Bells albums performed live.
2023-05
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Tubular Bells, a commemorative edition was released on double vinyl, CD and Blu-ray, including the previously unreleased demo Tubular Bells 4 Intro from 2017.
2023-05
The eight-minute demo Tubular Bells 4 Intro, which was recorded in 2017 but never completed, is expected to be Olfield's last studio recording.

Tracks

Tubular BellsDebut album from 1973, sold worldwide approximately 15 million copies, Grammy winner 1975

Moonlight ShadowBiggest hit single from 1983, from the album Crises

OmmadawnThird studio album (1975), number 4 in the UK and number 2 in the Netherlands

Tubular Bells IISequel from 1992, produced with Trevor Horn, number 1 in the UK

Return to OmmadawnLatest studio album (2017), return to the atmosphere of the original

Tubular Bells | Celebrating the visionary music of Mike Oldfield

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