Originally written by Sean Adams · 10 August 2003
For all those folks who find the Coopers' non-danceable tracks too noizy, all those girls who swoon over Tim Burgess, and boys who long for the Verve to reform; well wait no more, cos The Boxer Rebellion are here. Their debut single 'Watermelon' is out on Alan McGee's Poptones label on October 6th.
Anyhoo, don't take our word for 'em being great, check 'em out for yourselves at the following dates...
AUGUST 28th London Metro
SEPTEMBER 9th London Barfly 18th Coventry Colosseum 19th Leicester Sumo 20th Whitehaven Civic Hall 21st Liverpool Barfly 23rd Cambridge Boatrace 24th Sheffield Casbah 25th Colchester Soundhaus 26th Cardiff Barfly 28th Newcastle Cluny 29th Hull Adelphi 30th Glasgow King Tuts
OCTOBER 1st Aberdeen Lava 3rd Wolverhampton Little Civic 4th Tunbridge Wells Forum 5th Brighton Pressure Point 7th Bristol Louisiana 8th London Metro 9th Northampton Soundhaus 10th Aldershot West End Centre
DiScuss: Is 'indie' officially back? Any idea who's supporting on any of these dates?