Happy New Year to you.
Hope you had a great festive season.
January means its Celtic Connections time again - lots of great shows going on in Glasgow this month at the festival. I hope to get over there to see a few and I?m really looking forward to my show with Kathy Mattea at The City Halls in Glasgow on the 24th Jan (this Saturday).
If you fancy coming along check out the Celtic Connections website for ticket details - www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/79235
Once again I'll have the fantastic Kim Edgar and Stuart Nisbet with me on piano and guitar.
Navigator Records release Raining In Glasgow today. Really pleased to see this track getting out there. The photo above, by photographer Hugo Morris, is the front cover.
Whisky Hearts has also just received another nice review from Spiral Earth. Check out this link - http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/NEWS/Review-story.asp?nid=2207
The new Irvine Welsh mocumentary Good Arrows can be seen on ITV on Jan 30th. He?s used my song Whisky Hearts in the film and I?m off down to London this week to a screening. Looking forward to it. Even if my song only ends up being on there for a couple of seconds it?ll be good to hear it on the big screen.
In February I'll be playing a solo show in Darvel (nr Kilmarnock, Ayrshire) at the Darvel Lesser Town Hall. Its on Friday the 6th and is part of the Acoustic Nights & Electric Evenings series. Info available at - www.darvelmusicfestival.org
On into March and my UK Spring Tour. I?m very much looking forward to getting back out on the road again and visiting places I haven?t been to in a while. I hope there will be a gig on my schedule somewhere near you that you can make it along to.
Here?s a list of the dates so far, but there are still a few more to come so keep an eye on my website for more. Kim Edgar will be opening pretty much all of the following dates with me. If you haven?t heard Kim then check out her Myspace site - www.myspace.com/kimedgar
TOUR DATES
MARCH
15TH EDINBURGH ? VOODOO ROOMS
www.thevoodoorooms.com
www.myspace.com/thevoodoorooms
for more details or call
0131 556 7060. Email: info@thevoodoorooms.com
16TH ? PERTH - PERTH CONCERT HALL
BOX OFFICE: 0845 612 6324
EMAIL: INFO@HORSECROSS.CO.UK
WEBSITE: WWW.HORSECROSS.CO.UK
19TH ? DIDCOT (OXFORDSHIRE) CORNERSTONE ARTS CENTRE
BOX OFFICE01235 515144
20TH - EAST SUSSEX ? TRADING BOUNDARIES
TEL: 01825 790200
OR E-MAIL - SHOWROOM@TRADINGBOUNDARIES.COM
29TH ? WORCESTER - THE MARRS BARR (WITH AMY WADGE)
PHONE: (01905) 613336
30TH ? MAIDSTONE - ZEBRA BAR (PART OF MAVERICK @ THE ZEBRA) WITH DIANA JONES
CALL 01622 744481
31ST ? LONDON - ELECTROACOUSTIC CLUB AT THE SLAUGHTERED LAMB
TICKETS FROM TICKETWEB - TICKETWEB (0870 600 100) , WE GOT TICKETS AND SEETICKETS
APRIL
2ND ? NOTTINGHAM - THE MAZE
TICKETS FROM WWW.GIGANTIC.COM, WWW.SEETICKETS.COM OR THE MAZE BOX OFFICE - TEL: 0115 947 5650
3RD ? DARLINGTON ? THE FORUM
CALL 01325 363135
5TH ? INVERNESS ? NORTHERN ROOTS FESTIVAL
VISIT - www.northern-roots-festival.com FOR DETAILS
11TH ? BANCHORY -WOODEND BARN
TEL: 01330 825431
19TH ? WORCESTER ? THE MARRS BAR
PHONE: (01905) 613336
That?s about it for now. If I?m not playing a place near you and you?d like me to be then drop me a line if you?ve any suggestions of venues in your area.
Good luck for 2009
Cheers
Dean
