I haven't booked anything past mid-December 2011, and usually by mid-January I'd expect to have a few things dotted through until April or May at the very least.

Didn't know Chuck was touring though, so that may be the 1st booking of the year. Ta !

I can only offer Suggs (Jan 29), Silver Seas (Mar 6) and Laura Marling (Mar 7). But I'm working on it.

Jayhawks
Waterboys
Civil Wars

All in Edinburgh

Petty in Cork
Springsteen in Sunderland

And Latitude

.... and, thanks for the tip off Pedr0, Albert Lee in Musselburgh!

Lee Scratch Perry at the end of the month.

All Manchester:January - Various Cruelties, Wild Flag. February - Everything Everything, King Creosote/Jon Hopkins. March - Duke Spirit, Veronica Falls, Wu Lyf, Noah & The Whale. May - Elvis Costello, Buzzcocks.I've just noticed that April is a bit quiet!!

I have here in Singapore, Elbow on Mar 17th (at Esplande Concert Hall which is both reasonably small and great acoustics) and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra doing Vivaldi / Four Seasons in Apr (also Esplanade).

I'm debating on OMD on Mar 10th (it's school holiday week so may be away) and Foo Fighters on Mar 2 (big outdoor concert) - are they any good live ?

Jesus Jones in Birmingham two weeks today.

I clearly need to rectify this...

then nothing... poor effort

Graham Coxon in Oxford (and probably London), Nick Lowe, Spiritualized at Hackney Empire, Costello in Birmingham, Albert Hall x 2, Cambridge & Basingstoke. Boss in Hyde Park.

Wayne "the Train" Hancock 11 Feb
CW Stoneking 18 Feb
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion 17 March
Rosanne Cash 22 March
Low 27 March
Lambchop 30 March
Buzzcocks 26 May

Next week alone I've got Weds lunchtime at the Bridgewater Hall - Ravel sonata and Porgy and Bess; Thurs again BH - Ravel Piano Concerto and Messiaen; Fri again BH - Debussy nocturnes (There's a Debussy season and it's keeping me busy); Saturday - Gary Lucas plays Beefheart upstairs at the Liverpool Philharmonic; Monday Cecil Sharp Project at Buxton Opera House

February: back to the Bridgewater for more Debussy and Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis

March: Lambchop in Manchester Cathedral; Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin (bites trembling lip with impatience) at the Royal Northern College of Music; David Sylvian; a rearranged Spiritualised gig; Spiro at The Met in Bury; The Waterboys.

April: Graham Coxon; and ongoing Debussy stuff

May: hey Dave! Justin Currie's coming to Runcorn!

Then it's festival season. Already booked are Southwell and Big Session in June, Cambridge and Cropredy are a given, and the summer will be nicely completed by the never-failing Shrewsbury over August Bank Holiday - my favourite of the lot.

Yes, my time and money are all my own.

Thankyou for acknowledging that I am single-handedly keeping our arts and entertainment industry alive.

but really good

Nick Lowe in February

and

The Jayhawks in March (!)

but so far I've got a rescheduled Horrors gig in Liverpool next week (at a venue I've never been to before, The Kazmier? Anyone know it?) February I've got Everything Everything at an intimate gig in Salford which should be great, I've booked for Field Music and I'm also planning to see The Early Years and Still Corners.
Also, against my better judgement I may book a Beach Boys ticket but let's wait and see where, when and how much the potential car crash in a Little Deuce Coupe will be.

Belinda Carlisle (oh yes!) in Nottingham and then follows a more rootsy path with Rachel Harrington, Amy Wadge and Phil Beer and then my new disovery Aynsley Lister solo in the local pub in April and then a stand up master class in May by Dara o Brian (we can count comedians can't we?). After that not sure yet but the year will end in traditional fashion with The Bootleg Beatles.

That I am finally going to see Josh Rouse later this month.

Also, due to see Roots Manuva after many years as a fan.

Plus Florence & The Machine a bit later on.

Then The Beach Boys?

Shelby Lynne
Jayhawks/Chuck Prophet
Elvis Costello
Billy Connolly
Bruce Springsteen

Must book

Gretchen Peters
Dave Alvin
King Creosote/Jon Hopkins
Ian McNabb

Looking forward to Josh Rouse, and Nick Lowe in Liverpool, and Civil Wars in Manchester. A few classical as well - the Liverpool Phil with their conductor Vasily Petrenko are unbelievably hot at the moment, and am going to see them playing Shostakovich, and also the great Liverpudlian pianist Paul Lewis playing Schubert..

We already have booked Ron Sexsmith, Kathleen Edwards, Shelby Lynne, Jayhawks with Chuck Prophet, Rosanne Cash.

We must book Todd Snider, Zoe Muth, Chuck Prophet as headliner, Gretchen Peters. Keeping an eagle eye out for Tom Petty dates not at festivals.Hopefully Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart will add some more dates (I'm pleased to see they have seen the sense in continuing to tour together and haven't gone their separate career ways).

I can now add Tom Petty to the list through the good grace and agency of my friend Simon.Tickets in the Arena at the Albert Hall on June 18th.

Gretchen Peters has already been added to the list of forthcoming attractions and I forgot to list Dave Alvin when I first posted.

We've also got tickets for the David Hockney Landscapes exhibition at the Royal Academy.

Things are looking good.

Nick Lowe - Leicester Square 9-3
Alabama Shakes - The Boston 22-2

Nick Lowe - in Harrogate
Gretchen Peters - in Bury
Mr Costello - Manchester, Liverpool and twice at that there Albert Hall

Would like to book for

Dave Alvin - Manchester
Roseanne Cash - Pocklington
Kathleen Edwards - Manchester

1. Fatoumata Diawara at Södra Teatern, Stockholm

2. Lord Todd Rundgren of Bearsville, solo acoustic, also at Södra Teatern, Stockholm

if there's anyway Fraser could put up page where we can post gigs? I now have tickets for Rosanne Cash & Ian McNabb that I didn't know were happening. I keep a really close eye out for tour announcements but it is so easy to miss things. A prompt & recommend from the massive would really help.

...the website/app Songkick. It does exactly what you ask for here. Coincidentally it's mentioned in this months issue.

http://gettothefront.co.uk/

Gives you heads up on presales n the like.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Lee 'Scratch' Perry in the same week then a number who sadly don't have official nicknames:

'Randy' Newman
'Elvis' Costello
Lamb'chop'
John 'Spencer Blues' Explosion
'The' Antlers

Quite fancy the Simple Minds 5 x 5 gigs too and will be trying for Tom Petty Albert Hall date on Friday

Might try some of that 'new' music everyone's talking about at some point.