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Thousands of Ghost fans queue to enter the Utilita Arena on April 20, 2025(Image: Kirsty Bosley)<\/p>\nTobias Forge is spending a couple of days in the city after Ghost’s successful Utilita Arena gig – including a stop in Dale EndThousands of Ghost fans queue to enter the Utilita Arena on April 20, 2025(Image: Kirsty Bosley)<\/p>\n
A musician whose band attracted ‘never seen before’ queues<\/a> at the Utilita Arena on Easter Sunday is to return to Birmingham<\/a> for a special ‘congregation’ in Dale End.<\/p>\n Tobias Forge, the frontman of Swedish rock band Ghost, is to appear at the HMV Vault in Dale End on Friday, July 4 for a hosted ‘in conversation’ event talking about the band’s latest album, Skeleta.<\/p>\n Fans of Ghost queued in their thousands to see the performers<\/a> at the Utilita Arena on Sunday, April 20 for a five-star, phone-free performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more: Ghost Utilita Arena Birmingham review: ‘All that’s left to do is repent’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Read more: I fled Birmingham at midnight on a ‘doomed’ A38 mission to the past<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n A week later, dozens rushed to Lichfield<\/a> for a midnight launch of the band’s sixth album, surprising an independent record seller<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now Tobias will visit Dale End for a hosted ‘congregation’ event talking about the new record, scheduled to take place at 4pm.<\/p>\n The HMV Vault store is one of the last remaining businesses operating in Dale End following the sudden closure of Priory Square at the start of April<\/a>.<\/p>\n The appearance comes the night before Tobias is expected to appear at Black Sabbath’s final gig at Villa Park Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n Back To The Beginning will be Ozzy Osbourne’s final performance and a huge line-up of stars is expected to appear.<\/p>\n Tobias performs as a Pope-like character on stage with Ghost, changing guises for every new album with the band masked and anonymous.<\/p>\n The latest version of Tobias’ character is called Papa V Perpetua and the introduction of the latest iteration was made through announcement of the final Black Sabbath show.<\/p>\n Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne revealed Papa V Perpetua would be joining the likes of Slayer, Anthrax and Metallica on stage for the all-day Villa Park event.<\/p>\n The show will be hosted by Hollywood star Jason Momoa<\/a> and you can see the extensive line-up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tickets to see Tobias Forge in conversation sold out within minutes of HMV announcing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tobias Forge is spending a couple of days in the city after Ghost’s successful Utilita Arena gig –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,983,748,37252,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-75551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-centre","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-dale-end","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}