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Blue Planet II: How to get tickets for live concert

Key moments will be shown on a 200 square metre-sized 4K Ultra HD state-of-the-art screen.

Jacob Stolworthy

Tuesday 05 June 2018 08:24 BST

Blue Planet shows mourning whales whose newborn may have been killed by plastic

BBC nature series Blue Planet II is being turned into a live concert show with tickets set to be released later this week.

Key moments from episodes of the critically-acclaimed documentary show, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, will be screened accompanied by a live symphony orchestra performing the soundtrack which was composed by Bleeding Fingers Music, a company co-founded by Hans Zimmer (Inception).

Blue Planet II: Live in Concert will begin in March 2019 travelling around numerous cities including Bournemouth, Cardiff, London and Sheffield.

Memorable moments from the series, which scored huge ratings on BBC One in 2017, will be shown on a 200 square metre-sized 4K Ultra HD state-of-the-art screen.

Mat Way, global director of live entertainment at BBC Studios, said: “We are delighted to partner with FKP Scorpio for Blue Planet II: Live in Concert. It is an incredible concept bringing the BBC's groundbreaking footage from a BAFTA award-winning series to the UK arena stage for fans to enjoy.”

Blue Planet II arrived 16 years after the first series and provided insight into coral reefs, sea pollution and the bobbit (never forget)>

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Blue Planet II – in pictures

Broadclub cuttlefish

"A broadclub cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus) in Indonesia. Its skin contains millions of pigment cells with which it can create ever-changing colours and patterns to apparently mesmerise their prey."

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Blue Planet II – in pictures

Coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

"Once a year, responding to cues from the cycle of the moon and the temperature of the water, corals simultaneously release their eggs and sperm into the ocean. Tiny coral larvae drift in the ocean currents, some for days, some for weeks, before sinking back down to the ocean floor and settling to become new corals."

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Blue Planet II – in pictures

An aggregation of marbled grouper (Epinephelus polyphekadion), French Polynesia

"Thousands of groupers gather here in one of the few pristine spawning aggregations for this species remaining in the world. By taking up the position closest to a female, the male stands the best chance of fertilising her eggs."

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Blue Planet II – in pictures

Saddleback clownfish (Amphiprion polymnus)

"A male saddleback clownfish uses all the strength it can muster to push a coconut shell to its anemone in Borneo. Unlike their reef relatives, saddleback clownfish live around anemones that are found in the sand, far away from the solid structure of the coral reef. Male saddleback clownfish must use their ingenuity to find a hard substrate upon which the females can lay their eggs."

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Blue Planet II – in pictures

Peters' monocle breams (Scolopsis affinis)

"A group of Peters' monocle breams blow water-jets onto a hiding bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) to expose its ferocious jaws. In so doing, they alert other fish to the worm's location, ruining the predator’s chance of a surprise attack. This new behaviour was published for the first time by Jose Lachat and Daniel Haag-Wackernagel in 2016."

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Blue Planet II – in pictures

Green turtles (Chelonia mydas)

Green turtles in Sipadan, Borneo, jostling for their place at a cleaning station. Here, turtles are serviced by blennies and surgeonfish who rid them of algal growth, parasites and dead skin. In return, these fish receive a nutritious meal.

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Blue Planet II – in pictures

Bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum)

"Bumphead parrotfish feeding on coral and algae in Borneo. These parrotfish use their large forehead to ram corals, thereby breaking them into pieces that are more easily ingested. Each fish ingests over 5 tons of structural reef carbonates per year and after they digest the edible portions from the rock, they excrete it as sand, helping to create small islands and the sandy beaches."

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Blue Planet II – in pictures

Coral garden

"A fish's-eye view of a coral garden on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. New underwater probe lenses, developed for Blue Planet II, allow the viewer to immerse themselves into the coral reef city like never before."

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Blue Planet II – in pictures

A coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus)

"A coral grouper on the Great Barrier Reef in Northern Australia. Groupers use a gesture dubbed the ‘headstand signal’ to reach across the vertebrate-invertebrate divide and encourage another species to help it hunt. Gestures such as this are thought to only occur in the largest-brained species. The discovery of this behaviour in groupers indicates that some fish are able to think flexibly to achieve their goals."

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Blue Planet II – in pictures

Bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus)

"A school of Bigeye trevally gather at the outer edge of the reef wall in Sipadan, Borneo. These trevally are a schooling species, widespread in the tropics and usually found in large- slow moving schools during the day. They eat a variety of smaller fish, crustaceans and marine invertebrates."

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You can find the full list of 2019 tour dates below;

March 13 – Bournemouth International Centre

March 14 – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena

March 15 – Nottingham Motorpoint Arena

March 16 – Birmingham Genting Arena

March 17 – London The O2 Arena

March 19 – Leeds First Direct Arena

March 20 – Newcastle Metro Radio Arena

March 21 – Glasgow The SSE Hydro

March 23 – Belfast SSE Arena

March 24 – Dublin 3Arena

March 26 – Liverpool Echo Arena

March 27 – Manchester Arena

March 28 – Sheffield FlyDSA Arena

Advance tickets can be booked from Wednesday (6 June) ahead of general release on Friday (8 June)

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