Lulu has announced a surprise ‘one night only’ show in a clip shared to Instagram on Saturday after she revealed her battle with alcoholism last year.
The Eurovision star, 76, who is best known for her 1964 single Shout, revealed that her charity trust is putting on a concert.
Taking to her social media, the blonde beauty encouraged her fans to book plans for the new year and buy a ticket to her gig in June.
She confessed that she would be joined by a special guest, but decided to keep the act a secret.
In the clip, she said: ‘I know that January can be a big come down, I mean, I’m actually preempting it.
‘It can be a come down after the holidays and all the celebrations and the excitement and all the rest of it.
Lulu, 76, has announced a surprise ‘one night only’ show in a clip shared to Instagram on Saturday after she revealed her battle with alcoholism last year
The Eurovision star, who is best known for her 1964 single Shout, revealed that her charity trust is putting on a concert
‘It’s almost good to have something to look forward to, I think, don’t you? How about the first of June?
‘The Royal Albert Hall. A one-night-only, Lulu’s charity trust, we’re doing a concert. All the proceeds go to the charity.
‘And you know what? You might be surprised to see who comes up on stage with me. It’s going to be fun. Something to look forward to. What can I tell you? See you there.’
Alongside the clip, she penned: ‘Beat the January blues and get something in your diary to look forward to!’Â
The show announcement comes after Lulu opened up about her battle with alcoholism in her latest memoir, If Only You Knew, and revealed what led her to have her last ever drink back in November 2013.
In an interview on This Morning last year, she discussed her past addiction and confessed how ‘sad’ she feels that her dad didn’t have the same amount of help she did.
Cat pointed out: ‘Considering the history you have as well, the way you were brought up, the family you lived in, you’d seen this before, really?’
Lulu replied: ‘My father. They would say, ‘Oh, Eddie likes a good drink’.
Taking to her social media, the blonde beauty encouraged her fans to book plans for the new year and buy a ticket to her gig in June
She confessed that she would be joined by a special guest, but decided to keep the act a secret
‘They would never say…’
‘Back in that day they didn’t have the tools to be able to help themselves,’ Cat pointed out.
With tears filling her eyes, Lulu replied: ‘It really makes me sad when I think that my parents didn’t have the help that I have today.
‘My sister is a psychotherapist. She knew not to bring it up until I brought it up.’
Lulu’s parents are Betty McDonald and Eddie Lawrie.
The Shout singer previously confessed during the interview: ‘I had this secretive, but actually shame-filled, full of shame about being an alcoholic like my dad, full of shame about a lot of things that happened in my childhood, a lot of things I’d done.’
Presenter Ben wanted to know why she decided to have her last drink all those years ago.
Lulu explained: ‘I don’t think I decided, sometimes things are decided for us.
‘I struggled, struggled, struggled for years, secretly. Nobody knew I was an alcoholic.’
The presenter went on to ask how bad it was, to which she replied: ‘It was bad.
‘It was never bad because I was a fall-down drunk, nobody ever saw me, my son didn’t know I was an alcoholic even when I went to rehab and I called him.’
The star said that she was ‘secretive’ about it all, would go out and go home and have ‘another drink’, and she couldn’t stop drinking.
Despite keeping it to herself, her sister knew all along what was going on with her.
Lulu said: ‘I had a birthday party, everybody left, except my sister and her kids, two of them lived with me.
‘In the conversation around the table with a cup of tea, although I probably had a glass of wine, but I might have had a cup of tea…
‘My niece said ‘You know so and so, he’s hanging on by his fingernails’, talking about his problem with alcohol.
‘And I said, I don’t know where it came from, ‘He’s not the only one.’
‘It was silent. My sister looked at me and said very kindly, she said: ‘I know. I’ve known for quite some time.’
‘The cat was out of the bag. It was as if somebody up there likes me, I know have to share it.
‘I couldn’t ask for help before, but at that moment, I looked at my sister and said: ‘I have to go to rehab?’ She said: ‘I think so’.
‘I was there the next day.’
