The Wildhearts

Just noticed these on the myspace page,
19 Oct 2007 20:00
The Hook Brooklyn, New York
20 Oct 2007 20:00
Rocks Off Concert Cruise On a Boat!, New York

Wow!

It's about time I heard something new about this.

I wish it was earlier, like in the summer, but October will do just fine.

I can probably make it to both shows. If I'm gonna spend $500 to get there, I may as well spend another $100 for a second night in the hotel and another $20 for a ticket, right?

I hope more are announced. Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis... something like those places would make it a lot easier on me.

Please keep us posted on any new developments.

That announcement in full...

Hello!

We are pleased to confirm 2 New York shows for The Wildhearts!

Details below:

Friday October 19th, 2007
Rocks Off Presents
THE WILDHEARTS
plus special guests
@ the HOOK
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.thehookmusic.com/
tix:
$12 adv
$15 dos
advance tickets available through Ticketweb.com

Saturday October 20th
THE WILDHEARTS
plus special guests
on the Rocks Off Concert Cruise (Strictly Limited Capacity)
http://www.rocksoff.com
Tix
$20 adv
$25 dos
Advance tickets available through Ticketweb.com
The Cruise is a strictly limited affair so tickets will be on a first come first serve basis. More info below:

The Rocks Off Concert Cruise is a 3-hour trip around Manhattan,
departing from 41st Street and the West Side Highway. The boat heads
south down the Hudson river to the Statue of Liberty, before cruising
through NY Harbor, passing underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, turning
around and repeating the trip in reverse. It offers breathtaking
views of the NYC landmarks & skyline, a full bar, and a professional
performance environment in the most unique setting in town.

All tickets are on sale from 9am on Friday.

The Wildhearts

Having done the Rocks Off karaoke cruise I can say that while it is great fun to be amongst a few dozen rock fans who take it in turns to get up there to sing with the house backing band on a battered old boat, this clearly is a new low for the Wildhearts. A band who bitched and moaned about playing small venues on the last tour.

Unless they get a bigger boat than the one i was on!

My tip is smuggle some booze on board cos otherwise ur stuck for 3 hours with their bar prices.

Although, to be fair the website says they've refurbished the boat so while it's small, it may be a little less ramshackle.

Looking at their website, they've got a 200 capacity and a 500 capacity boat. 500's not much, but probably a very fun atmosphere..

Wonder if they fancy playing on one of the London boat cruises.. or the Manchester Ship Canal..

this clearly is a new low for the Wildhearts. A band who bitched and moaned about playing small venues on the last tour.

???

they seemed to enjoy the small venues more from what i''ve read on the board (riffs, mansfield mill) and a couple of quotes from the shows i saw
"fuckin' hell there's alot of you!" - kokos london
"we weren't expecting to see so many of you." milton keynes
if the band didn't want to play the shows they wouldn't have booked 'em. they chose to do lots of smaller shows rather than a handful of larger ones and what exactly is wrong with playing small venues anyway?
the band haven't reached a new low - they have just released a killer album to great reviews and completed a very sucessful and extensive tour. the future is bright.

They did seem to be enjoying mansfield but Ginger said if they didn't play bigger and better venues they would quit.

Col wrote:They did seem to be enjoying mansfield but Ginger said if they didn't play bigger and better venues they would quit.

Which is a valid point in Britain where they're known.

On the other hand, since their US presence so far amounts to a few club dates, and unfortunately a bunch of pulled or blown gigs, they're right to be thinking a bit smaller. At this point they don't actually have US distribution for the album, so they can't rely on people who've stumbled across the rekkid either.

*wanders off singing Got It On Tuesday*

Well lads and lassies, as I have said before, the pound is nicely positioned against the dollar about now.

The question is then, will the the boat break in half like the Titanic with all you lot aboard!

A new low? Hardly This ain't no karaoke boat, I can assure you of that.

I'll be buying my two tickets to the boat show on Friday, and two for the other new york show shortly after.

FINALLY!

So can we have confirmation from the band that the visa are all sorted this time before we book flights etc.

Well, 10.20am in New York - still no tickets for sale online.

I was able to get tickets for the boat through ticket web, but The Hook does not have the Friday night gig posted yet.

I'll admit (1) that I jumped the gun in not checking the website to see that they may be using the bigger boat (the Temptress, dependent on ticket sales no doubt) and (2) that the smaller boat has been refurbished. But who else on here has been on the Rocks Off cruise!? The boat I went on was a rustbucket and had two floors with the smaller upper floor (about 20x20) being the only place a band could set up. It could be fun, it's just the last time i saw Ginger in NYC, the SonicCircus imploded in front of a tiny crowd on their 2nd night at Don Hills.

As long as they're prepared for what they'll be confronted by.They did say they'd quit rather than come back in Mansfield and then repeated those sentiments in Leicester and that was done with no sense of irony.

Anyway, the Replacements and Husker Du have just been on BBC1 ...in that order!

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