BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The former lead singer of a band that in the 2000s sold more than 3 ½ million copies of its albums and produced 11 Top 40 alternative songs will play a solo acoustic show at a new Monroe County music venue, it was announced.
Brett Scallions, who fronted the band Fuel for more than 25 years, will perform July 13 at Signature Event Center, 137 Erin Lane, Brodheadsville.Concert announcement
Brett Scallions, who fronted the band Fuel for more than 25 years, will perform Saturday, July 13, at Signature Event Center, 137 Erin Lane, Brodheadsville.
Tickets for general assignment and table seating go on sale at 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 3. Prices and methods of purchase will be announced.
Fuel has a special connection to the Lehigh Valley.
In 2001, it became the only music act ever to headline two shows in the same year at Musikfest when it added a second show to replace Sheryl Crow, who canceled.
One show sold out and the other came close, setting a still-standing record of more than 12,000 headline stage tickets sold in one year.
Fuel first hit the charts in 1998 with its platinum debut album “Sunburn.” The disc produced four Top 40 Alternative hits: The title track, “Bittersweet,” “Jesus or a Gun” and “Shimmer,” which peaked at No. 2.
The band’s sophomore disc, 2000’s “Something Like Human,” sold double platinum and had the No. 1 hit "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)," the No. 4 hit “Innocent” and the No. 12 hit “Bad Day.”
Fuel’s third album, 2003’s “Natural Selection,” was its highest-charting, at No. 15, but had only one Top 30 hit, “Falls on Me.”
Scallions left the band in 2006, and it broke up in 2010, but Scallions revived the band in 2011 with him as the only original member.
That lineup released just one album, 2014’s “Puppet Strings,” with the Top 30 song “Soul to Preach To,” but it continued to tour until 2020.
Scallions again left the band in 2020 when original guitarist Carl Bell and drummer Kevin Miller returned, and Fuel continues to tour with the Bell-Miller lineup.
Scallions last December released a single, “This World’s on Fire,” with a new band, RadioBot, and has continued to play solo shows.
