2004 NEWS ARCHIVE
DECEMBER 4
Milo's diary has been updated for the final part of the UK tour.
NOVEMBER 22
Milo's diary has been updated for the first part of the UK tour. The end of the UK tour and the Greek dates will follow very soon.
NOVEMBER 12
Tim's gig in Istanbul on Sunday 14th has unfortunately had to be cancelled. Apologies to all Tim's Turkish fans for this and the late notice.
NOVEMBER 11
Tim's gig in Thessaloniki has been moved to the Principal venue from the Fix venue previously advertised. All tickets are still valid.
Tim and the Individuals complete the UK leg of the tour tonight at the ICA in London. Details of the UK dates will be added to the site in the next few days.
OCTOBER 21
Support on the Glasgow, Manchester and Leeds shows comes from Trap 2.
OCTOBER 14
The London ICA gig is now sold out. Support at the show will come from Brighton band The loveGods who have just released their debut mini-LP Between Dogs And Wolves and who Tim supported on some of his early acoustic shows last year.
OCTOBER 5
Tim Booth and The Individuals are playing the following UK dates in November
November 7 - Glasgow Cottier Theatre
November 8 - Leeds City Varieties
November 9 - Manchester Northern College Of Music
November 11 - London ICA
Please note that the Athens and Thessaloniki gigs have been amended - Athens is now the 12th and Thessaloniki the 13th. Milo will not be playing the Spanish and Portuguese shows due to other commitments and will be replaced by Pat Garvey.
SEPTEMBER 28
Tim and the Individuals are playing the following European dates in November
November 2 - Lisbon Aula Magna
November 3 - Porto Hard Club
November 4 - Madrid Moby Dick
November 5 - Barcelona Razzmatazz 3
November 12 - Athens Gagarin 204
November 13 - Thessaloniki Fix
November 14 - Istanbul Venue Maslak
The Bristol show advertised on Gigsandtours website is NOT taking place. The band never confirmed this show.
SEPTEMBER 4
The second part of Milo's tour diary has now been added to the website. Follow the link on the left to hear about the last few dates of the tour and the festivals.
AUGUST 22
Yesterday Tim and the Individuals played a short but well-received set to a packed Music Choice Tent at the V Festival in Chelmsford. The set included Eh Mamma, Wave Hello, Down To The Sea, Sometimes and Butterfly's Dream. Earlier, Tim, Lee and Lisa had played a three-track acoustic set in the Virgin VIP tent featuring Down To The Sea, Fall In Love and Wave Hello.
AUGUST 15
Wave Hello is released tomorrow on cd single featuring an exclusive b-side Si Tu Veux. It can be pre-ordered or purchased from outside the UK through Pinnacle.
Tim and the band are also doing an Xposure session on XFM on Tuesday 17th. Show starts around 9pm - this will be confirmed.
Tim is playing fourth on the Music Choice stage at this year's V Festival in Chelmsford on Saturday 21st August and Stafford on Sunday 22nd August.
JULY 29
Tim Booth is playing at the Benicassim Festival in Spain on Thursday August 5th. Stage time is around 10.55pm
JULY 25
Part one of Milo's diary of the recent UK tour has been added to the site. Click on the link on the left-hand side of the page.
JULY 24
Wave Hello single release has now been delayed until August 16.
JULY 23
The final part of Tim's interview has now been added to the Interview section of the website.
JULY 21
The provisional release date for Bone in the US is September 21 through Koch Records with a catalogue number KOC-CD-9626. This release date is still subject to change.
JULY 20
The tour came to a triumphant end last night at Brighton's Concorde 2. The set Slow Laid, Eh Mamma, Into Darkness, Bone, Five-O, Dance Of The Bad Angel, Love Hard, Sometimes, Down To The Sea, Wave Hello, Butterfly's Dream, Monkey God, Fall In Love, What Goes On with Lisa performing a solo song after Sometimes. The set for Sunday's Waterfront show was the same with the exception of Lisa's song.
Tim has signed a US distribution deal for Bone with Koch. It is hoped that the album will come out in September. There are no plans at present for Tim to tour the US.
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Wave Hello is still scheduled
for release on August 2. According to Sanctuary, the single will only be
released on CD format and will include an exclusive track Si Tu Veux. We will be running a campaign to get as much radio play as possible in the run-up to the single release. Full details will be posted here and in the special section in the forum in the next few days. We also hope to have a link up very soon for pre-orders. First-week sales from chart counting stores are important to get the single as high a chart placing as possible. |
JULY 18
Tim and the band played a mid-afternoon set at yesterday's Guildford Festival - Laid, Bone, Dance Of The Bad Angel, Eh Mamma, What Goes On, Sometimes, Down To The Sea, Wave Hello, Butterfly's Dream and Monkey God.
JULY 17
Tim and the band played to their biggest club audience on the tour so far last night at Birmingham's Academy 2. The set featured Laid, Discover, Bone, Five-O, Dance Of The Bad Angel, Love Hard, Eh Mamma, Sometimes, Down To The Sea, Wave Hello, Butterfly's Dream, Monkey God and What Goes On.
We are now starting a radio campaign to get as much airplay for the Wave Hello single. Details are in the forum. We will kick this off fully from Tuesday once the tour is finished.
Look out also for a new competition to win one of three seven inch singles of Down To The Sea signed by the whole band.
Thanks to everyone who's signed up for the mailing list at the gigs. For those who haven't been at the gigs we'll post details of how to join here next week.
JULY 15
Back from the first half of the tour and we've got a well-deserved day off tomorrow. A massive thank you from the band and the crew to all those who've come along and got into the spirit and energy of the shows and made them the special events they were. Setlists have been posted for most shows in the Gigs section.
Tickets are still available for all the remaining dates. Tim and the band are playing Birmingham Academy 2 on Friday 16, Guildford Festival on Saturday 17, Norwich Waterfront on Sunday 18 before finishing the tour with a hometown gig at Brighton's Concorde 2 club on Monday 19th.
Support is an acoustic set from Lee "Muddy" Baker - if you get there early, please show him the respect and attention he deserves.
There are now two shirts available on the tour, both feature the Monkey God logo. Both are black shirts, the first has a white logo with the band name on the sleeve, the second a red logo with the band name on the back. Sizes range from M to XL. Please also visit the merchandise stall and sign up for the mailing list - if you're not attending the shows and want to join, we'll be posting details soon.
There will be a track from Saturday's Move Festival performance broadcast on either Friday evening or Saturday evening after midnight. Down To The Sea is the track due to be aired. We will try and confirm which show we will be featured on.
The Bristol set on Monday was preceded by a James and Tim fan performing classic James tracks Out To Get You and Say Something using sign language and the highlight of the set was Tim walking the full length of the bar during Butterfly's Dream to sing to a heckler. Lisa sang one of her own compositions during Tuesday's Oxford Zodiac gig.
Last night's show at St James Church in London was extraordinary, the band played basked in candlelight to a seated audience for the first half before some of the crowd got up to dance to the faster tracks at the end of the set. Acoustic versions of Laid and Careful What You Say made their first appearances in the set on the tour so far.
For those not familiar with the track, the cover version Tim and the band are playing is the Velvet Underground's What Goes On from their self-titled album. Be warned the original is very different.
Wave Hello is scheduled for release on August 2. We will have b-side details very soon but Tim told us there will be some interesting new songs on the formats.
To coincide with the release, there is provisionally a Mark Radcliffe acoustic session on BBC Radio 2 pencilled in for Wednesday August 4. More details of this will be posted as we have them.
Coming soon, we hope to have some pictures from the tour, Milo's diary, all the setlists, the final part of Tim's interview, an interview with Lee and another competition to win signed material. And some sleep. We'd also like to hear your views on the tour and if you've got some great pictures please share them with us.
JULY 9
Updates for the next week or so will be posted in the Tim News section of the Forum as we're off on tour.
JULY 8
Tim Booth's performance on the Portuguese radio station Best Rock in June can be listened to on Best Rock's Tim Booth page.
Bone has entered the official Greek charts at number 19.
JULY 5
Provisional stage times for Tim's upcoming festival appearances are as follows :
Move Festival - 5pm, 45 minute set
T In The Park - 3.20pm, 40 minute set
Guilfest - 4.45pm, 1 hour set
The Birmingham Academy 2 show also has a 10pm curfew, so get there early.
The single Down To The Sea entered the UK charts at number 68 this week.
JULY 4
Tim has been confirmed as playing the Sudoeste Festival in Portugal on Sunday August 8.
The band performed an acoustic version of Fall In Love with me on Radio 2's Jonathan Ross show yesterday. This can be heard in Radio 2's archives for a week or so.
The XFM session that was broadcast last week can also be found on XFM's website.
JUNE 29
Tim and the band performed a live session on XFM this evening featuring Wave Hello and Monkey God. He also intimated there would be another UK tour in September or October. This is still in the early stages of planning and any announcement will be made here first if does happen. The sessions are usually streamed so we'll post details if they are.
Don't forget Down To The Sea was released yesterday on CD featuring exclusive track Remember Me and 7" vinyl with the exclusive track Bring It On. The CD retails at £1.99 and the 7" at 99p. If you can't find it in the shops, you can order by clicking on the link on the front page for HMV.
JUNE 28
The winners of the signed copies of Bone are Andre Duarte, Geoff Riley and Dennis Papaioannou.
JUNE 26
Tim and the band played a show to a packed out New Bands Tent at Glastonbury Festival last night. The set included Discover, Down To The Sea, Wave Hello, Eh Mamma, What Goes On, Sometimes, Dance Of The Bad Angel, Bone, Butterfly's Dream, Monkey God and an encore of Fall In Love. Lee smashed up a guitar during the end section of Butterfly's Dream. Most of the show was broadcast live on BBC3's interactive service.
Tim and the band will be performing at the Sudoeste Festival in Portugal in August. Date of the performance will be confirmed in the next few days.
JUNE 24
Tim and the band played a stunning warm up show at Bedford's Esquires Club last night. They played Discover, Down To The Sea, Five-O, Wave Hello, Eh Mamma, Sometimes, Dance Of The Bad Angel, Bone, What Goes On, Butterfly's Dream and Monkey God in the main set. The encore featured some stand-up comedy from Milo, a second run through of What Goes On and Fall In Love.
What Goes On is a cover of the Velvet Underground song and featured Lisa making her stage debut on bass and Robin playing keyboards.
JUNE 22
Bone debuted at 98 on the UK album charts this week.
Tim's performance at this year's V Festival has now been confirmed. He will appear fourth on the bill on the Music Choice Stage at Chelmsford on Saturday 21st August and Stafford on Sunday 22nd August. There are very few tickets left.
JUNE 21
Tim's performance of Down To The Sea on BBC3's Glastonbury Calling can be watched on Radio 1's Glastonbury website.
JUNE 19
Part 1 of our interview with Tim has been posted to the site - follow the Interview link on the left to find out Tim's feelings on leaving James and how he met the rest of his new band.
We're running a competition to win one of three signed copies of the album Bone. Click on the album logo below to enter.
JUNE 18
Tim, Lee and Lisa will be in Portugal on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to promote Bone. On Sunday evening they will be recording the Herman SIC show live from the Algarve.
On Monday 21st, they will be performing live and acoustically on the Best Rock FM music show between 8 and 10am and also recording a TV programme called O Homem Que Mordeu a Cao which is broadcast later in the week.
Interviews are scheduled with the following publications : Blitz, DN Musica, Y, Correio da Manha, Primeiro de Janeiro and Magazine with more to follow.
An XFM Music:Response session has also been scheduled for Tuesday 29th June between 6 and 8pm.
The full band play Bedford Esquires Club as a warm-up for Glastonbury Festival on Wednesday evening, June 23rd.
JUNE 14
Bone is released today in the UK.
JUNE 11
Tim, Lee and Lisa are being interviewed and performing a session on Paul Ross' show on LBC Radio tomorrow, Saturday 12 June. Paul's show is on between 10am and 1pm. You can listen live by tuning to www.newsdirect.co.uk.
Tim, Lee and Lisa will also be interviewed on Radio 5's Simon Mayo show on Monday afternoon, 14 June, between 1pm and 4pm.
Tim and the band will also be performing on BBC3's Glastonbury Calling on Monday evening, 14 June. The programme is on between 8 and 8.30pm and Tim will be performing one track.
There will also be some promotional activity in Spain on 15-16 June and Portugal on 21-23 June. More details will be posted here as soon as we get them.
An interview with Tim (in German) will appear on the German internet music magazine Gaesteliste.de on Monday June 14.
JUNE 10
Tim is being interviewed today on Andrew Collins' program on BBC Radio 6 between 4 and 7 UK time.
JUNE 9
Tim's acoustic session on Radio 2's Janice Long show has been brought forward 24 hours to midnight tonight. Apologies for the short notice of the change.
JUNE 5
Tim Booth appears on Virgin Radio's Razor Cuts tomorrow evening, Sunday 6 June, at 7pm.
He is also due to appear and play an acoustic session on Janice Long's BBC Radio 2 show between midnight and 3am on the morning of Friday 11 June.
JUNE 3
Thirty-second samples of each track from the album "Bone" plus the video for the single "Down To The Sea" can be accessed from the media link on the left hand side of this page.
Tim Booth's warm-up gig for Glastonbury is confirmed as at Bedford Esquires on Wednesday 23rd June.
JUNE 1
Tim Booth is confirmed as second headliner in the New Tent at the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday 26th June. A warm-up date will be announced very soon.
MAY 29
The release of the Down To The Sea single has been delayed, the new release date is likely to be June 28th. Bone will still be released on June 14th.
MAY 17
Tim Booth will be playing the AV Festival in Malaga, Spain between 1-4 July. Tickets go on sale on May 19 and will be available from www.servicaixa.com.
MAY 14
Down To The Sea has been confirmed as the first single off the album "Bone". It will be released on June 7th on two formats. The 2-track CD single will also feature Remember Me and the 2-track 7" single Bring It On. Neither track will feature on the album.
MAY 6
Down To The Sea has been confirmed as the first single off the forthcoming album Bone. The single will be released on Monday 7th June in the UK. More details to follow soon.
The following tour dates have been confirmed today. Birmingham is on sale now, the others will be very soon.
Monday 12th July : Bristol Fleece And Firkin
Tuesday 13th July : Oxford Zodiac
Wednesday 14th July : London Piccadilly St James Theatre
Friday 16th July : Birmingham Academy 2
Sunday 18th July : Norwich Waterfront
Monday 19th July : Brighton Concorde 2
APRIL 30
Tim Booth has been confirmed as playing at the Move Festival at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester on Saturday 10th July. Tim appears on a bill that is headlined by Stereophonics with support by The Pixies, Goldfrapp, The Stands and 22-20s. Tickets can be obtained through this link.
Tim is also playing the V Festival in Chelmsford and Stafford over the weekend of 21-22 August. We're still awaiting confirmation on which site he will be playing at on which date.
APRIL 28
Tim Booth has been confirmed as playing on the Radio 2 stage of this year's Guilfest in Guildford on Saturday July 17th. Tickets can be purchased using this link to the official Guilfest site.
APRIL 26
Tim Booth has been confirmed as playing in the Kings Tut's Tent at this year's T In the Park festival on Sunday July 11. Tickets can be obtained through the official T In The Park website.
In response to several questions about a European and US release for Bone, there is a possibility of releases later in the year but nothing has been finalised and it will be after the UK release if it happens.
APRIL 23
Tim's debut solo album Bone is due out on June 14th on Monkey God Records licensed exclusively to Sanctuary Records. It is preceded by a single released on June 7th.
The track-listing for the album is Wave Hello, Bone, Monkey God, Redneck, Love Hard, Discover, Fall In Love, Falling Down, Down To The Sea, In The Darkness, Eh Mamma and Careful What You Say.
This press release and interview with Tim reveals more about the inspiration and conception of the album and what Tim's been doing since leaving James.
APRIL 22
Tim and his band have just completed a UK tour taking in Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms, Liverpool Academy, Cardiff Engine Rooms and a very special intimate show at London's Kings Cross Water Rats Theatre, drawing material from Bone, Tim's 1996 Booth and the Bad Angel album and a couple of James classics.
More dates are being planned for later in the year including several festival appearances and will be announced here in the near future.