Originally written by Mike Diver · 30 November 2005
Oooooh, they're back! And they're still not pretty! Well, be they ugly or otherwise in your blinkered eyes, one fact can not be ignored: The Strokes are touring, lock up your daughters. (You know mothers, the ones that stabbed the eyes out of all the pictures of Drew Barrymore in your celebrity magazines...)
Of course, Julian Casawhatsit and company aren't touring for no dang good reason: they've a record coming our way by the name of First Impressions Of Earth on Jauary 2nd. Equally obviously, these tickets, which go on sale on Friday at 9am, will disappear quicker than the strawberry chocolates from a Christmas box of Quality Street. In my house, anyway.
January 19 Belfast Ulster Hall 20 Dublin The Point 24 London Shepherds Bush Empire 25 Bristol Colston Hall 27 Nottingham Ice Arena 28 Doncaster Dome 31 Manchester Apollo