TICKETS are selling fast for Michael Ball's three concerts in the south this summer.

The West End legend plays two shows at the Bournemouth Pavilion on June 18 and 27 with a concert at the Portsmouth Guildhall in between on June 22.

The 21-date UK tour starts on May 29 at the Blackpool Opera House.

The tour will feature Michael singing some of his best known songs like Love Changes Everything, the song which gave him his first number one, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard and Tell Me On A Sunday.

He'll also be performing some of his personal favourites, such as If Tomorrow Never Comes and That's What Love Is For.

Since his auspicious West End debut as Marius in Les Miserables in 1985, Michael Ball has enjoyed an enormously successful career as the UK's top male musical theatre star, million-selling recording artist (he's sold more than three million albums in the UK alone) and live concert performer.

Michael has been performing all over the UK for more than ten years and the shows always sell out, whether they're staged at traditional theatres, stately homes or castles, royal parks or festivals.

As well as a stack of gold and platinum discs, Michael has also received numerous awards in recognition of his extraordinarily successful career, including the Variety Club of Great Britain's Recording Artiste of the Year. The Theatregoers' Club of Great Britain voted him the Most Popular Musical Actor of the last 20 years.

Michael is currently appearing as Count Fosco in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Woman In White at the Cambridge Theatre in London.

Tickets for his concerts cost from £24.50. Call 0870 400 0688 for details.