The new CD has arrived and will be on sale at Salisbury (17 Nov) and all the gigs throughout the rest of the Concert tour.
All the orders placed via the Online Shop will be despatched over the next few days.

The recent interest in the live version of ‘Boys of Summer’ on the Radcliffe & Maconie show has spurred us on to get the new ‘Covers 2′ CD ready, and it will be available in mid-November.
This recording is intended for our ‘friends and fans’ only – we’ll be selling it at gigs and by mail order, but it won’t be available through the shops and it won’t be on iTunes etc.
Apart from Don Henley’s ‘Boys of Summer’, the tracks will include the Stereophonics’ ‘Dakota’, Tom Robinson’s ‘ 2-4-6-8 Motorway’, Mark Knopfler’s ‘Tunnel of Love’, Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Youngstown’ and lots more…..
If you won’t be able to get to any of the Concert Tour gigs later this Autumn you can order your copy now from the Online shop.

To co-incide with the start of the ‘Standing Room Only’ Tour we’ve done a new black short-sleeved TShirt with the AIG monkeys featured on the front. It’s a good quality ‘Beefy-T’ shirt and available in 5 sizes – Small, Medium, Large, XLarge and XXL.
Perfect for the festival season to come!
If you can’t make it to one of the gigs, it’s now available to order from the Online Shop.

Watch the brand new final version of the video on YouTube.

Plus there’s some new interview footage with the band talking about two tracks on the album: the title track and ‘IED-Science or Nature’

AIG running neck and neck with Jon Boden for Best Album.

The Spiral Earth Awards 2010 are up and running. Show Of Hands are shortlisted for Best Trad Track, Best Album and Best Group: “You can now vote in fifteen categories that celebrate the rich diversity of the current folk, roots and acoustic scene. What makes our awards a bit more involving for you is that you get to decide them.”

Both the Electric Ghost e-zine and FATEA website have named AIG as their album of the year 2009.

“Some of the best songs Steve Knightley has ever written – a stellar album of shattering magnificence destined to be our Album of the Year” – Electric Ghost

“Political, passionate, life affirming – this is folk of true Olympian proportions. If there’s a better written, produced and performed album released this year I’m going to have to commission someone to invent new superlatives” – FATEA Magazine

Check out the new performance video of ‘Arrogance Ignorance and Greed’ on YouTube.

AIG selected as Album of the Week and Show of Hands tour in the Top Ten gigs in today’s Independent.

The Guardian F & M Playlist. “Our music team pick the songs or albums they just can’t turn off”

Robin Denselow re Arrogance Ignorance and Greed title track:
“There have been surprisingly few angry songs about bankers and bonuses but this stomping and furious piece from Show of Hands is the best track of their new album.”

Steve & Phil will be playing live in the studio on the Tom Robinson Show BBC 6 Music this Friday 6th Nov from 7pm. Tom will interview the guys and play tracks from the new album.
Now available on Listen Again.

The new album Arrogance Ignorance and Greed due for release on Monday stood in the various Amazon Charts (they change hourly) as follows:
Music Bestsellers (All) No:49
Music Bestsellers (World & Folk genre) No:3 up 150% :
Hot Future Releases (All) No:12
Hot Future Releases (World & Folk) No:1
Movers & Shakers In Music No: 9 up 157%

Johnnie Walker, sitting in for Terry Wogan, played Arrogance Ignorance and Greed today. Available just before the 8.30 news on Listen Again.

As a result of the airplay AIG has gone up to 86 in the overall Amazon Music Chart.

Fiona Talkington will be playing tracks from the new album on BBC R3′s Late Junction programme on both Wed 21 and Thurs 22 October .

Steve talks to BBC R Lancashire’s John Barnes from 11pm tonight Weds 21 October.

Hear Steve interviewed on the Paul Franks Show BBC WM betwen 6pm and 7pm Thurs 22 October.

Show of Hands will be doing an instore performance at HMV Exeter Princesshay 5pm on Tuesday 10 November. The guys plus Miranda Sykes will be playing live for 30 minutes or so and then available to meet fans and sign copies of the new studio album Arrogance Ignorance and Greed. The event is free so come along to listen to the band and enjoy a glass of bubbly on us.

Read Colin Irwin’s great review of AIG for BBC Music.

Steve & Phil go into the studio on Friday to record an interview with Mike Harding for a future show.

Recent airplay on the Iain Anderson Show BBC R Scotland and on the Late Show with Cherrie McIlwaine. Both available to listen to on iPlayer here and here

Steve is due to be interviewed on independent West Sussex radio station Spirit FM around 2.30pm today Thursday 8th Oct on the Ian Crouch show – talking about upcoming Chichester gig and new album. Those outside the area can listen live here.

To celebrate the forthcoming release of Arrogance Ignorance And Greed, Play.com are giving just 25 lucky fans the chance to win a pair of tickets to see Show Of Hands premiere their new album at an exclusive gig on October 28th! The show takes place early evening at the intimate Gibson Guitar Rooms in Central London, it’s the perfect place to hear the duo’s incredible new album performed live! To stand a chance of winning tickets to this exclusive event, simply answer the question here on Play.com fill in your details and click Go! Competition closes – 18th October 2009

Mike Harding will be playing a track from the new album on his show tomorrow Wed 07 October 7pm BBC Radio 2. Click here The Mike Harding Show

E-magazine Spiral Earth give Arrogance Ignorance and Greed a 4* rating. Read the review here.

Bob Harris gave first mainstream radio play last Saturday night to ‘Evolution’ taken from the new album ‘Arrogance Ignorance and Greed’. Available here on BBC iPlayer about 46mins in.

We now have samples of the new album to listen to on the discog page, click here.

We’ve just received the first stock and it looks great. All the orders placed so far will be despatched today and tomorrow. You can order online from here.

The new studio-recorded CD can now be ordered from the online shop
Eight original Steve Knightley songs are included plus two covers, Secret World and Senor (Tales of Yankee Power), and two traditional songs, Lowlands and The Keys of Canterbury.
You can order it now, or buy one at the CD stand on the County Towns Tour and get your copy signed. To listen to samples on the discography page, click here.

A decade on, Show of Hands’ inspired frontman revamps his mainstream-nudging debut solo album, emphatically demonstrating the sheer diversity of his acclaimed songwriting.

13 tracks make up his most emotionally literate collection of songs to date with bonus track

“Rock You To Sleep” co-written with Seth Lakeman

Steve’s new CD can now be ordered from our online store.

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Longdogs is proud to announce the release of the above CD, the proceeds from which will be divided equally between the national childhood cancer charity CLIC Sargent and the ‘Paediatric Oncology’ fund at Bramble ward in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
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