too much...

has happenned since i last put fingers to keyboard and mailled out last time - on a global as well as a personal level. as most things have been said about the events of sept 11th in terms of horror and shock and sympathy im not going to add too many more words to the pile, suffice to say that we live in crazy times and all of us in the frames camp extend our sympathies to anyone out there that has been personally touched by this unbeleivable tragedy - and i think that probably means all of us in one way or another... you have to have a heart of stone for it not to have touched you on some level. after doing the beach gig on brittas bay which was so full of good vibes and positivity from everyone there, bands and audience alike - it was an horrific come-down 3 days later and everything kind of paled into insignificance.......anyways - we all gotta get on with our lives as best we can i guess. and i just want to say a note of thanks to all of you who came out and made the effort to support that evening - it really was a great great night and im sure it will happen again next year... we'll just try and pick a day which is a little less feckin freezing!!

so - on with stuff...

1 firstly - my computer bust a couple of weeks ago and ive been having problems ever since trying to work out what ive lost in terms of emailling addresses, so, if you are reading this from the board and havent got it direct to your inbox and you think you should have, then please send me another mail requesting join up - ta.

2 TOURING SCHEDULE IRELAND WITH SUPPORTS AND ANY RELEVANT INFORMATION...
oct
27th galway, the town hall with bellx1 supporting.
28th galway, the town hall with mundy supporting. tix available from the box office at the town hall. price £10 i beleive.
29th waterford, SOUTH CLUB with bonny prince billy (will oldham) - double headliner. Tickets can be bought from next Monday at Ticketmaster 1890-925100, www.ticketmaster.ie , Sinnotts and BPM Records in Waterford. Tickets are £12.50 including booking fee.

nov
1 vicar street, dublin standing show very special guests to be announced later in the month cause im still working on this one... tix £12.50 available from ticket master and i would imagine road and soundcellar too...
2 vicar street, dublin standing show very, very special guest to be announced - or you might get a nice surprise if you turn up on the night...
3 vicar street, dublin seated show with the very lovely josh ritter and his band and paul oreilly too...
4 vicar street, dublin seated show ditto josh ritter and his band supporting...
8 belfast, limelight with josh ritter - tickets go to shops Wednesday. They are £9.50. Available from Limelight/Katy Dalys, Backbeat, Good Vibrations, and the Queens Festival Box Office
9 spirit store, dundalk with mundy (this is sold out already i do beleive)
10 nerve centre, derry with mundy tix from the nerve centre or cool discs records.
10 i think that we will also be doing an instore on the 10th at cool discs in derry too... 5pm ish... ask lee in the shop for more details...
13 limerick UL jonathon swift theatre with josh ritter and bellx1 tickets available from the su. but if you have problems let me know ...
14 savoy, cork seated show with josh ritter and bellx1 Tickets are on sale for the 14th in The Lobby, The Roundy Bar, Comet Records and Synthetic Records, and are £12.50
15 savoy, cork standing show with josh ritter and mundy these tix will be on sale as of next monday i think...same places as above.

ok - until the new years eve bash that is the last bunch of dates in ireland from the frames this year id reckon.


3 AMERICA straight after the irish tour, the band will be heading to america (all things permitting) to tour there from the 19th nov through to the 15th dec initially. we WILL be back and forth to america over the coming 6 months and if we havent come to you this time around, we will surely try getting to your town sooner rather than later. the album comes out in america on overcoat records on the 23rd oct. the only dates that i have pretty written in stone right now are:
4th dec shubas in chicago
6th dec uncommon ground chicago
all the others to be announced and that should be soon, like this week or early next week at the latest. probably not a bad idea to keep checking the board gigs page too...

CHECK IT OUT/BUY ONLINE IN AMERICA AT
http://store.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,1562425,00.html


4 ENGERLAND. on the 8th october for the birds will be available in the uk - direct from our distributor "- All HMV`s / Virgins / Tower`s / Borders / Music Zone`s (all northern stores). Or any half decent Indie can order it (if they havent already) from 3MV "- so let me know if you cant get it. it will be cheaper from now on for anyone wanting to buy it in england to go into a store rather than buying online... sorry to all those that recently bought it online - but you couldnt wait could you??!!


5 dave fanning stuff in ireland "- In Fanning On Sunday 14-10-01 Dave talks to Placebo and James backstage at Witnness some weeks back. Both talk about finding a new maturity, overcoming taunts and being bad. And in 2FM Live later on we've got one of the highlights of this year's festival, a stunning set from The Frames that won them huge numbers of new fans to join the legions of the converted" i beleive this goes out at 10pm on that evening... so dont say i didnt tell you so...

nice things at:
www.shakenstir.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/media/inside_r1/witnness-glennhansardint.ram

brittnness review and photos at:
http://www.nophotography.com/
http://www.nophotography.com/frames.html

other stuff - dunno if this is up there yet, but it could be by now..." an acoustic performance of 'Red Chord' by The Frames in webcast highlights of the Witnness festival in Dublin earlier this year. The footage, originally shot for RTE, will be webcast from our website www.wembleytv.com and the site of our European partner at www.chello.com and will be made available for an archive period of six months from the date of first webcast (expected to be later this month)." that was in sept i got that so it could be up there now?
http://www.wembleytv.com/wembleytv/webcasts/webcast_details.cfm?eventID=392


6 THE FRAMES/CALEXICO 7" can now be bought on line at www.roadrecs.com if anyone is looking for it. its on volta records and it features the frames doing will oldhams new partner and calexico covering nick drakes clothes of sand. whilst im talking about volta - paul oreillys album 'first thing in the morning' - is well worth checking out too and is out on volta and available at road too, oh i should say aswell - damien rices excellent 'the blowers daughter' single is out now and well worth the money, for those that have been asking...


7 AUSTRIA right now glen is in austria having an amazing time by the sound of it and himself and mic christopher have a couple of gigs left to play at

5.10. "Playing Together" WAR-CHILD BENEFIT with Wolfgang Hoffelner, Groundlift, DJ-line and visuals at OHO OBERWART (www.oho.at) 8pm

6.10. "NÄHERUNGEN" Kupptisch-Literature Day with Klaus Nüchtern from FALTER and the PICNICPRODUCTION on University CAMPUS Vienna 3pm (www.daviart.net/ireland)

6.10. "An Evening with the Picnicproduction" at POGO - Moravske Budejovice (CZ) 8pm

big shout of thanks to joe'the vienna connection' steibl for organising such a fantastic weeks worth of gigs and stuff - well done that man - and i KNOW that youre having some fun over there to boot!


8 ive probably forgotten some stuff - and gawd knows if this will even get out to you, but heres hoping. cherish the ones you love and love the ones you cherish. keep safe and best love. cx