WET Wet Wet return to Liverpool for a concert as part of their current tour later this month.

The Glaswegian band – whose many hits included With A Little Help From My Friends, Goodnight Girl and Love Is All Around – is at the Echo Arena as part of The Big Picture Tour on February 27.

The tour coincides with the 20th anniversary re-release of their album Picture This and the group has also been in the studio recording new material.

Guitarist Graeme Clark told the Globe: "We're looking forward to coming back to Liverpool; it's a fantastic place which holds a lot of special memories for us. It's been good to us.

"We worked in a recording studio there in the 1980s and signed our first record deal there.

"Liverpool is very similar to Glasgow in some ways; the humour is the same and it's a dock city like Glasgow."

The group – which also features frontman Marti Pellow, Tommy Cunningham and Neil Mitchell - formed in 1982 and has sold more than 15 million singles and albums to date.

They featured in the UK official singles and album charts for an immense 510 weeks, and have played to more than four million people in over 25 countries around the world.

They set a record by playing ten sold out shows at Glasgow's SECC in 1995, when they were officially the most popular live act in the UK – even out-selling the Rolling Stones who were also on tour that year.

Their first single Wishing I Was Lucky was released in 1987 which quickly entered the charts, starting a phenomenal run of 27 Top 40 hits.

The debut album Popped in Souled Out followed and it too burst into the charts hitting No.1.

The singles and albums flowed with their recording success being punctuated by a string of awards all over the world.

Graeme Clark reflected: "Picture This was our best album, it was released during a pretty heady time for us and led to Love Is All Around being number one."

Tour by tour, the band achieved a reputation as one of the best live acts produced by the UK.

On their first major tour in 1988, they played to more than 500,000 people in 40 days throughout the UK, Europe and Japan.

In 2013, their album Step By Step – The Greatest Hits, with the title track being one of three new songs that proudly sat alongside some classics from the band’s vast armoury of hits.

Looking back on their success, Graeme said: "There have been many highlights; for example, working with different producers like Nile Rodgers. This was an amazing thing to do."

Recalling making their break in the music business, Graeme said: “We were young, running as fast as we could and for as long as we could.

“We came from the west of Scotland, with the negative attitude of ‘we won’t last long in this business. But that attitude changed as we got older.

“When we went back into the studio, in a weird way it didn’t seem like 20 years since we had last done that.

“When you physically see each other in a room after all that time it’s a much more human experience.”

Tickets for their concert at the Echo Arena are from the box office on 0844 8000 400.