Special performance of Just For One Day announced to mark the 40th anniversary of Live Aid
New West End show Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical has confirmed the release date for its cast album and dropped the first track.
Following an acclaimed run at The Old Vic Theatre last year, Just For One Day is coming to the West End’s Shaftesbury Theatre this month, from 15 May 2025. The show is booking to 10 January 2026.
The cast album for Just For One Day will be released by Small Change Records on 11 June 2025. Get a first-listen of track “Message in a Bottle” from the show.
The cast album was first announced by The Old Vic back in March 2024. See the track list for the album, below. The cast recording will be released on streaming and digital download, double CD, and double vinyl. You can pre-order from Amazon.
First listen: Just For One Day – Message in a Bottle
See all photos and videos from Just For One Day – here
The album is produced by Olivier Award-nominated arranger Matthew Brind and Jon Bath, and engineered by Grammy-nominated Jeremy Murphy. The album promises to feature a modern, expansive sound while staying true to the energy and emotion of the originals, even featuring new lyrics penned by Sir Bob Geldof himself.
At a launch event for the show today, 1 May 2025, Bob Geldof told PA News that staging another Live Aid event ever again was unlikely, saying, “I think it’s very much of its time, we didn’t even expect this to be a thing. From my point of view, rock and roll turned out to be almost a 50-year pop, which ended, conveniently for us, with the summing up at Live Aid, then that was subsumed by social media, so whatever’s going to happen now will happen through social media. Unfortunately, social media seems to be a sort of isolating type medium. So could the same thing happen again? Unlikely, in my view unfortunately.”
It was also announced today that a special performance of Just For One Day will take place at the Shaftesbury Theatre on Sunday 13 July 2025, to mark the 40th anniversary of Live Aid. The special performance of the show will be followed by an exclusive after-party with surprise special guest performances at Koko in Camden.
The Just For One Day cast are back in London after performing in the North American premiere of Just For One Day at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto.
The show stars Craige Els (Doctor Who, Matilda The Musical) as Bob Geldof, with Kelly Agbowu as Marsha; Julie Atherton as Margaret Thatcher; Jason Battersby as David; Jordan Cambridge-Taylor as Stevie; Eloise Davies as Maria; James Hameed as Khalil; Fayth Ifil as Jemma; Melissa Jacques as Suzanne; Hope Kenna as Young Suzanne; AJ Lewis as Kai; Freddie Love as Skye; Tim Mahendran as Harvey Goldsmith; Rhianne-Louise McCaulsky as Amara; Jack Michael Stacey as Tim; Emily Ooi as Ellie; Ashley Samuels as Jim; Sadie-Jean Shirley as Onstage Swing (Willow) / Assistant Dance Captain; Jake Small as John Kennedy; Tamara Tare as Alicia; George Ure as Midge Ure; Kerry Enright as Offstage Swing (Bella); Evan Fox Harrison as Offstage Swing (Archie); Esme Laudat as Offstage Swing (Seraphina); Eddie Mann as Bob Walking Understudy; Jaye Marshall as Offstage Swing (Rhianne) / Dance Captain; Lukin Simmonds as Offstage Swing (Vill); and Dyd Wynford as Offstage Swing (Malcolm).
On 13 July 1985, music united the world. Live Aid, organised by Rock stars Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the Ethiopian famine crisis, was an unprecedented global music event that brought 1.5 billion people together, and they all have a story to tell about ‘the day rock ‘n’ roll changed the world’.
This exhilarating show features hit songs by Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Who, U2, Queen, Madonna, The Police, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Diana Ross and more of the iconic artists who made history at simultaneous charitable concerts in London and Philadelphia.
2025 marks 40 years since the iconic Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia, and 10% from the sale of all tickets will be donated directly to The Band Aid Charitable Trust.
The musical was a box-office success last year at The Old Vic, playing to a record-breaking 99% full houses across the run. Read a round-up of reviews from The Old Vic production.
This new musical is written by John O’Farrell (Mrs. Doubtfire, Something Rotten!) and directed by Luke Sheppard (& Juliet, Starlight Express, Paddington The Musical).
The creative team also includes Musical Supervision, Arrangements & Orchestration by Matthew Brind, Choreography by Ebony Molina, Set by Soutra Gilmour, Costume by Fay Fullerton, Lighting by Howard Hudson, Sound by Gareth Owen, Video & Projection by Andrzej Goulding and Casting by Stuart Burt CDG.
Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical is produced by Jamie Wilson Productions, Kevin McCollum, Sonia Friedman Productions, Gavin Kalin Productions, Kenny Wax Ltd, The Ambassador Theatre Group, Mirvish Productions, Nederlander Theatres, No Guarantees, Burnt Umber Productions, Stephen C Byrd, Willette & Manny Klausner and The Old Vic by permission of The Band Aid Charitable Trust.
Jamie Wilson, Producer of Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical said in a statement:“As we approach the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, it’s an incredible honour to bring Just For One Day to the stage—a celebration of the people, the passion, and the power of music to change the world. This musical is not only a tribute to one of the most extraordinary days in music history, but a reminder of what we can achieve when we come together for a common cause.”
Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical is playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre from 15 May 2025 to 10 January 2026.
Book tickets to Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London
Just For One Day: The Live Aid Musical – Track List
Track list for the double CD. Digital download, and double vinyl also available
Disc 1:
1. Overture
2. Heroes
3. Rat Trap (featuring Craige Els)
4. Drive (featuring Abiona Omonua)
5. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (featuring Jack Shalloo)
6. Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Feed The World)
7. Radio Ga Ga
8. Stop Your Sobbing (featuring Julie Atherton)
9. We Are The Champions (featuring Collette Guitart & Jo Foster)
10. We Are The World
11. You’re The Best Thing (featuring Emily Ooi)
12. I’m Still Standing (featuring Craige Els & Julie Atherton)
13. Bad
14. Message In A Bottle
15. Pinball Wizard (featuring Joel Montague)
16. Dancing In The Streets (featuring Danielle Steers & Ashley Campbell)
Disc 2:
17. Summer of ’69 (featuring Collette Guitart)
18. Blowing In The Wind
19. Reach Out And Touch (Somebody’s Hand) (featuring Julie Atherton)
20. In The Air Tonight / We Can’t We Live Together (featuring James Hameed, Danielle Steers & Ashley Campbell)
21. We Will Rock You / King Of Rock (featuring Olly Dobson & Tamara Tare)
22. Rockin’ All Over The World (featuring Olly Dobson)
23. Vienna (featuring Jack Shalloo)
24. I Don’t Like Mondays (featuring Craige Els)
25. All You Need Is Love (featuring Jason Battersby)
26. Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) (featuring Joel Montague)
27. Rebel Rebel / Don’t You (Forget About Me) / Into The Grove (featuring Jo Foster, Rhys Wilkinson and Tamara Tare)
28. Bohemian Rhapsody (featuring Freddie Love)
29. My Generation (featuring Naomi Katiyo)
30. Let It Be
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