Originally written by [redacted] · 4 August 2003
Dexy's Midnight Runners: as previously announced, Kevin Rowland, Lucy Morgan, Pete Williams and "others" are taking Dexy's on the road for the first time in years. Tickets cost around £20 + booking fee. Meep!
OCTOBER 21st - Portsmouth Guildhall 23rd - Wolverhampton Civic Hall 25th - Leeds Grand 26th - Basingstoke The Anvil 28th - Bristol Colston Hall 29th - Cambridge Corn Exchange 31st - Guildford Civic Hall
NOVEMBER 2nd - Aberdeen Music Hall 3rd - Glasgow Pavilion 4th - Newcastle Opera House 6th - Manchester Academy 7th - Liverpool Royal Court 8th - Northampton Derngate 10th - London Royal Festival Hall **SOLD OUT 11th - Milton Keynes Stables 12th - Plymouth Pavilions 14th - Coventry Warwick Arts Centre 16th - Belfast Waterfront 18th - Leicester De Montfort Hall
Inpsiral Carpets: back on the road after a hugely successful jaunt round the country in spring, and pretty much every festival they could blag onto the bill for... Moo!
AUGUST 16th - V2003 Shaffordshire, Weston Park 17th - V2003 Chelmsford, Hylands Park 22nd - Canterbury Fayre
NOVEMBER 30th - Nottingham Rock City
DECEMBER 1st - Glasgow Academy 2nd - York Barbican 5th - London Shepherds Bush Empire 6th - Manchester Apollo
Jim Bob: back doing his solo 'thang' as acoustic troubadour, playing his own tunes, stuff from Carter USM days and maybe one or two from Jim's Super Stereoworld toooooo.
OCTOBER 16th - Birmingham Glee Club 17th - Glasgow 13th Note Café 18th - Frome St John's Hall 19th - Winchester Railway 22nd - Northampton The Soundhaus 23rd - London Lock 17 (formerly Dingwalls) 24th - Worcester Marrs Bar 25th - Ivybridge Rugby Club 26th - Cheltenham Playhouse Theatre 28th - Manchester Night & Day 29th - Nottingham Maze 30th - Sheffield Casbah
Abdoujaparov: Fruitbat's post-Carter USM project in the form of punk rock played by men old enough to know better.;-)
AUGUST 8th - London Underworld (with Katastrophy Wife, Bernard and Go Rimbaud)
OCTOBER (other tour dates tbc) 2nd - Sheffield Casbah 3rd - London Metro 9th - Worcester Marrs Bar