30th August 2024 - 5th January 2025
Blackpool Illuminations 2024 Details
2024 Switch On
The annual Blackpool Illuminations Switch-On event, one of the biggest in Blackpool’s calendar, has been staged indoors for the last few years but it's back to the Tower Headland for the 2024 Switch ON! This year will be a little different to traditional Switch On's! 2024 will again be a FREE non ticket event!! The 2024 event starts at 5pm on Friday 30th August with Upbeat Rock Academy and House of Wingz till 6:30pm.
The at 6:30pm to 7pm Hits Radio Music Video Show will be entertaining the crowd.
The main celebrations on the Tower Headland will commence at 7pm running to 9pm. Amongst the performers will be Massaoke Band (RockStar Weekend), Kimberly Wyatt and Ella Henderson.
The 2024 Switch On celebrity is Mel B from the Spice Girls. She will throw the switch for the 2024 Switch ON.
Mel B:
Melanie Janine Brown MBE - is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress. She rose to fame in the mid 1990s as a member of the pop girl group the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Scary Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide,[2] the group became the best-selling female group of all time. But did you know one of here first professional performing jobs was actuallly as a dancer in the Mystique show at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach?
Massaoke Band - RockStar Weekend:
Turn the spandex up to 11. The band behind MASSAOKE have toured the world, rocked stadiums and performed to zillions. And now the party superheroes are back – with a new name, the riffs of Led Zep, the costumes of Ziggy Stardust and the swagger of The Spice Girls.A ROCKSTAR WEEKEND show is a euphoric, spandex-clad journey through the greatest smash hits of all time, with mash-ups, megamixes, MASSAOKE and more. A dazzling, high-energy live experience supercharged by videos on massive screens, giant lyrics, confetti blasters, rockstar poses and face-melting guitar solos.
Kimberly Wyatt:
is an American, British-based singer, dancer, actress, and television personality. She is a former member of the girl group and dance ensemble The Pussycat Dolls.
Ella Henderson:
is a singer and songwriter. She competed in the 9th series of The X Factor in 2012, being the 8th contestant eliminated despite being a strong favourite to win. She signed with Syco Music shortly after, and released her debut studio album, Chapter One in 2014, which reached number one in the UK. The album spawned the chart-topping single "Ghost", as well as the top 20 singles "Glow" and "Yours". She went on a four-year hiatus in 2015, and released her second studio album, Everything I Didn't Say, in 2022.Celebrity Switch On stars have included:
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2024 Mel B
2023 Sophie Ellis Bexter
2022 Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen
2021 Shirley Ballas
2020 Corona Heroes
2019 Lucy Fallon
2018 Alfie Boe
2017 Star Trek - Discovery & Diversity
2016 Barbara Windsor
2015 Tim Burton
2014 Peter Kay
2013 Jonathan Ross
2012 Olympic medal winners - Beth Tweddle, Karina Bryant, Luke Campbell, Sophie Hosking, Max Whitlock, Steven Burke & Smooth/Real Radio
2011 Keith Lemon & Smooth/Real Radio
2010 Robbie Williams & Smooth/Real Radio
2009 Alan Carr & Radio Two
2008 BBC Top Gear Team & Radio Two
2007 BBC Dr Who - David Tennant & Radio Two
2006 Dale Winton & Radio Two
2005 Chris Evans & Radio Two
2004 Geri Halliwell & Radio Two
2003 Blue & Radio Two
2002 Ronan Keating & Radio Two
2001 Steps & Radio Two
2000 Westlife & Radio Two
1999 Gary Barlow & Radio Two
1998 Chris De Burgh & Radio Two
1997 Michael Ball & Radio Two
1996 Eternal & Radio One
1995 Bee Gees & Radio One
1994 Shirley Bassey
1993 Status Quo & Radio One
1992 Lisa Stansfield
1991 Derek Jameson and Judith Chalmers
1990 Bet & Alec Gilroy "Coronation Street" (Julie Goodyear & Roy Barraclough)
1989 Frank Bruno
1988 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman
1987 Frank Bough, Ann Gregg & Kathy Tayler, BBC "Holiday" programme
1986 Les Dawson
1985 Joanna Lumley, BBC "Children in Need"
1984 Johannes Rau (Minister-President, North Rhine Westphalia & David Waddington, QC, MP (Minister of State, Home Office)
1983 Cast of "Coronation Street" (Doris Speed aka Annie Walke)
1982 Rear Admiral "Sandy" Woodward
1981 Earl & Countess Spencer
1980 Cannon and Ball
1979 Kermit the Frog and the Muppets
1978 Terry Wogan
1977 Red Rum
1976 Carol Ann Grant (Miss United Kingdom)
1975 Tom Baker (Dr Who)
1974 Wendy Craig
1973 Gordon Banks
1972 Danny La Rue
1971 Cast of "Dad´s Army"
1970 Tony Blackburn
1969 Canberra Bomber
1968 Sir Matt Busby
1967 Dr. Horace King (Speaker)
1966 Ken Dodd
1965 David Tomlinson
1964 Gracie Fields
1963 Cliff Michelmore
1962 Shirley Ann Field
1961 Violet Carson
1960 Janet Munro
1959 Jayne Mansfield
1958 A E ´Matt´ Matthews
1957 John H Whitney (American Ambassador)
1956 Reginald Dixon
1955 Jacob Malik (Russian Ambassador)
1954 Gilbert Harding
1953 George Formby
1952 Valerie Hobson
1951 Stanley Mathews
1950 Wilfred Pickles
1949 Anna Neagle
1939 Cancelled when war broke out, no display during War years or indeed until 1949
1938 Councillor Mrs Quayle
1937 Alderman Ashton and the Duke of Kent
1936 Sir Josiah Stamp
1935 Audrey Mossom (Railway Queen)
1934 Lord Derby
The concert during which the guest will throw the switch marks the start of Blackpool´s Big Switch On Weekend. We hope that thousands of fans of the celebrity, and of Blackpool, will join us in the celebrations and that they stay to enjoy all the free events Blackpool will be hosting throughout the weekend and indeed during the Illuminations Season.
