HEAVEN 17: THE LAST TEMPTATION

LONDON PREMIERE

As Heaven 17 approaches its 50th anniversary, the band’s shows still deliver, but inevitably the years are catching up on performers and audience alike. Across four UK gigs, we meet devoted fans of the Sheffield electro pioneers and witness Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory, lifelong partners in creativity, musing on their legacy, wisecracking in the back of a tour van, visiting their childhood streets and teenage hangouts, and reckoning with what comes next. But this is a band built on a split. Ware was famously kicked out of The Human League, the band he founded, just before they became global stars, and he and former bandmate Phil Oakey haven't spoken in three decades. Now, Martyn decides to reach out. Warm, wry, reflective and wise, this part-tour film, part-reconciliation story captures a band at a crossroads, and asks whether old wounds can heal and whether this is really the end.

James Strong|UK|2026| 74’

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