Santa Clause is coming to town

Oh no, it's his brother, "Cooper Temple" Clause...

You've missed a couple of dates, this schedule got caught up in the ether, but there's probably still time to catch The Cooper Temple Clause when they come to your town...

The debut EP "The Hardware EP" is out on Monday (the 19th) and will be available as a double gatefold vinyl (check out the review and tracklisting here: http://www.popex.com/boards/2/0/9/1/1/7/) limited to only 500 copies)...

Here's the full schedule:

FEBRUARY

Sat 10th PORTSMOUTH - Wedgewood Rooms

Wed 14th EXETER - Cavern

Thurs 15th FALMOUTH - Pirates Inn

Fri 16th SALISBURY - Black Pig

Sat 17th SOUTHAMPTON - Joiners

Mon 19th OXFORD - Bullington Arms

Tues 20th BRISTOL - Louisianas

Thurs 22nd LONDON - Bar Fly @ The Monarch

Fri 23rd ALDERSHOT - West End Centre

Sat 24th HASTINGS - The Crypt

Mon 26th CAMBRIDGE - Anglia University

Tues 27th CHELMSFORD - Army & Navy

Wed 28th NORTHAMPTON - Roadmenders

MARCH

Thurs 1st PETERBOROUGH - Park

Fri 2nd HARLOW - Square

Sat 3rd BEDFORD - Esquires

Mon 5th YORK - Fibbers

Tues 6th MANCHESTER - Life Café

Wed 7th GLASGOW - King Tuts

Thurs 8th ABERDEEN - University

Fri 9th FALKIRK - Engine Room

Sun 11th NEWCASTLE - Arts Centre

Mon 12th HULL - Adelphi

Wed 14th SHEFFIELD - Casbah

Thurs 15th WREXHAM - Central Station

Fri 16th ASHTON UNDER LYME - Witchwood

Sat 17th COVENTRY - Colosseum

Pauly :: 2001 :: Comment / reply

Differ'nt Strokes

Trail of Dead tour, The Strokes support and have a new single...

The Strokes, are five New Yorkers, and they've just sent a CD with a track called Barely Legal (on an EP called The Modern Age, out now on Rough Trade), that's got to be worth a news story, if only for getting this page in the "Billie Piper Naked" search engines...

They're playing one of the NME "Brats" shows, with ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, and they're also supporting the 'Dead on tour - the only date confirmed so far is my old home venue Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms, on the 31st of Jan... if that wasn't a Wednesday I'd be THERE.

I'm sure in the title of the TV show "Different" had an apostrophe in it, anyone know why?

Thanks to Anglo (www.angloplugging.co.uk) for this, they've sent it as a bribe, to ensure I don't mention Grand Theft Auto on the front page any more...

No, that's a lie.

pauly :: 2001 :: Comment / reply

Oasis @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

I was there at The Wedge, ace gig, and I really do remember this one, unlike the Nirvana @ Birmingham Hummingbird one I wrote up the other day...

Found this bit of text from an NME interview, written by Simon Williams, quoting the band talking about their stay at the Holiday Inn North Harbour (now the Marriott).

"It's a stupid place to put a pool, innit?" frowns Liam. "It was just asking for trouble putting us in this hotel." "It's true," nods Noel, wisely. "Those plate glass windows are just saying, 'THROW A CHAIR THROUGH ME!'" In fact, were it not for a bar bill totalling £150, the odd bruised band member and some suspicious chinking noises emanating from a large black bag being heaved through the foyer out to the van, you could almost convince yourself that nothing had happened. Really.

1994 :: Comment / reply