one more day to go

and i can, with hand on heart and with all honesty say, "yes - you can go purchase a copy of 'for the birds' in a record store near you"!!!!! WOW!! we got there - finally!!! as you can imagine we are all rather pleased and emotional in the frames camp right now and we ALL want to say thank you so much to everyone out there who has basically made this possible. without your support this wouldnt be happenning and we really are very, very grateful.

for all those outside of ireland right now who want to get hold of a copy of the record can i recommend you go to http://www.roadrecs.com where you can order online direct from the site. this is an indie record shop in dublin who have been good to us and it would be good to order from there. right now i guess theyll be the only online place you can get it outside of ireland. i just dont have the infrastructure right now to order online from our site - but im sure that will come in time, and obviously ill let ya know when it does.

the band are just about to embark on the first leg of the promotional touring stuff in ireland (dates below) and when ive got them on the road there, i will be starting to put together the other bits of the world where we need to get to. roughly though id say we'll be in england in mid to late june then over to europe east - czechoslovakia, slovakia, austria and a bit of germany, then probably back through england in earlyish july before going home to dublin to do some supports with david gray etc. in august and september we will be looking at heading to the states, so ill keep all informed about dates as and when i put them in place.

a couple of interesting sites to check out which have reveiws of the album in the next couple of weeks are
http://www.shakenstir.co.uk
http://www.independentsounds.net
http://www.cluas.com
im sure there will be others in the pipeline which ill let ya know about.

gig dates for those that arent aware of them are as follows - i beleive that some of them are sold out already or pretty much sold out as of today, so if you aint got your ticket id be quick about it...

march
30th the olympia, dublin with bellxone
31st vicar street, dublin with mundy, mic christopher, damien rice

april
1st whelans, dublin - afternoon at 1.30 with cherry
1st whelans, dublin - evening show with damien rice
4th UL limerick
6th Curraclre Hotel, Wexford with mic christopher
7th the lobby, cork - afternoon all ages show with local band that i dont know yet...
10th The Savoy Theatre, Cork with josh ritter and mic
11th leap, connollys with josh and mic
12th leap, connollys with josh and mic
14th cleeres, killkenny with josh and mic
15th cleeres, killkenny with josh and mic
20th dolans, limerick with josh
21st an taibhdhearc theatre galway with josh and mic
22th an taibhdhearc theatre galway with josh and mic
23rd roisin dubhs, galway with josh and mic
26th morrisons, belfast with josh and mic
27th mcgarriggles, sligo with josh
28th the nerve centre, derry with josh, relish and berkley
29th the spirit store, dundalk with josh and mic
30th the spriit store, dundalk with josh and mic

May
3rd mullingar the stables support tbc
5th divine comedy support, dublin castle

we should have tshirts at the gigs too, for those that are interested. i wish you all a very pleasant weekend and hope to see you sometime soon at some show or another. best love from me and them, xxxxx
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