Two major festivals coming up this weekend. Firstly Sidmouth Festival on Saturday 31 July. Advance tickets are sold out but Ham evening season tickets are still available. Ring the Box Office for more info: 01395 577952 (Online booking now closed).
Then on Sunday 01 August the guys along with Miranda will be doing two shows at Cambridge Folk Festival. Day Tickets are now all sold out but last few Weekend Tickets available. Ring 01223 357851 for details.
For the opening night of Trowbridge Village Pump Festival on Thursday 22nd July we’ve put together a special line up featuring special guests, Little Johnny England, Fisherman’s Friends, Jackie Oates & Mike Cosgrave and Ruarri Joseph. Tickets available online here
There’s a special preview night on Wednesday 21st at Exeter Phoenix. This is a standing show and starts at 8pm running to about 11.30pm. Tickets from Phoenix box office: 01392 667080 and online here
Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes will be at the IF Milton Keynes on Monday 19 July 8pm. The concert will be held in the spectacular mirrored Spiegeltent in Campbell Park. Tickets are selling fast: Festival box office 01908 280800 or Online Booking.
The 13th in the series of Abbotsbury Summer Concerts has been and gone. It was blessed by perfect weather, a sell-out crowd and eclectic line up. Thanks to all who came along and supported the event and to all the perfomers for some great sets. We start the process of planning next year’s and welcome any feedback – ideas on a postcard to info@showofhands.co.uk
Cheers
Steve & Phil
The 13th in our series of Abbotsbury Summer Concerts on Saturday 3rd July is now officially sold out. Thanks for all your support and see you there.
Grassington Festival show on Friday 18th June has now sold out and Ludlow Assembly Rooms on Sunday is nearly sold out.
Still some tickets available for Middlewich Folk Festival on Saturday: Quaytickets 24hr ticketline 0843 208 0500 or online at http://midfest.org.uk/mfab/ticket-guide/box-office.html
Tickets for the Snape Proms show at Snape Maltings on Thursday 19 August are now on general sale: 01728 687110 / online
The annual Show of Hands Summer Family Concert is selling fast and is on course to sell out before the event. Tickets are available from Abbotsbury Tourism on 01305 871130.
The line up is Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes, Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds, Spiro, Rodney Branigan and Flossie Malavialle
SOH with Miranda will be at Milton Keynes International Festival Monday 19 July. Venue is The Spiegeltent in Campbell Park. More info and tickets here
Thanks to all those ‘North of the Border’ who came along to the Fruitmarket show in Glasgow and made it such a great evening. See some of you at Stonehaven in July.
SOH concerts at Tring, Hinton St George and Bradninch festivals 10/11/12 June are now sold out as is the gig at Nettlebed on the 8th. Tour dates link here
The venue have just made 10 tickets available for the show on Saturday (15 May). Contact box office 01308 424204 or online booking here
Saturday’s gig (15 May) at Bridport Arts Centre is sold out with a long waiting list.
The gig at The Globe tomorrow Wednesday 12 May will definitely go ahead. Our congrats to the venue on them getting their licence renewed after a protracted battle to have it reinstated. See here
Hear Steve interviewed on Paul Franks’ Drivetime Show BBC WM on Friday 7th May 4-6pm.
Then on Tuesday 11th May Steve is on Alan Thompson’s The Evening Show BBC Wales between 7-8pm.
Read Emma Hartley’s Daily Telegraph blog review of the FAF concert at the Southbank on Sunday here.
We have managed to quickly rearrange a couple of the postponed dates. Fiddlers Bristol will now be Friday 21 May and Orange Box Yeovil will be Saturday 22 May. Tickets valid for new dates. Thanks to promoter Jan Ayers and to the venues for their cooperation on this.
The postponed sold out show at The Plough Arts Centre has been rescheduled for Tuesday 11th May. Tickets for the original event are valid for the new date – please contact the venue box office on 01805 624624 for further information. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
The standing gig at Rock Plaza, Sevenoaks 1st May is now sold out as is the rearranged date at Electric Theatre, Guildford on the 4th.
Tickets for the 13th Abbotsbury Summer Family Concert are now on sale from Abbotsbury Tourism on 01305 871130:£22 adults/£11 children//£50 family (2 adults and up to 3 children).
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Just confirmed: Show of Hands & Guests, Thursday 21 Jan at Exeter Phoenix. Doors 8pm. Tickets now SOLD OUT
Show of Hands play a special London gig at The 100 Club on Tuesday 02 February, the day after the Folk Awards. Tickets at £16 plus booking fee are on sale online only from WeGotTickets: Click Here
AIG selected as Album of the Week and Show of Hands tour in the Top Ten gigs in today’s Independent.
This additional show is now sold out.
Ticket holders from the original event (11th Oct) who have not confirmed attendance with Dorchester Arts Centre prior to Sunday’s show will not gain entrance and should ring the Arts Centre on 01305 266926.
Jenna will be special guest and open the Dorchester show on Sunday 8th Nov, starts 7.30pm. Ticket holders from the original event at the Corn Exchange on 11th October should contact Dorchester Arts Centre on 01305 266926 for information on the ticket procedure for the new event. This additional show will be at the Herrison Hall Ballroom, Charlton Down.
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.
As promised an additional Dorchester concert has been scheduled for Sunday 8th November. Ticket holders from the original event at the Corn Exchange on 11th October should contact Dorchester Arts Centre on 01305 266926 for information on the ticket procedure for the new event. Due to the unavailability of the Corn Exchange the new event will be at the Herrison Hall Ballroom, Charlton Down.
To allay any concerns, the concert at Chichester Festival Theatre on 14th Oct will be going ahead as planned. A few tickets are still available, click here
We have managed to rearrange the postponed Hereford gig to Wednesday 25th November. This will now be at a new venue, the modern 350 seat Freedom Centre,. Tickets for the Shirehall concert will be valid for this new date but if you would prefer a full refund please contact Shellie Byatt on 01432 761914.
Our apologies for any inconvenience caused by the postponement.
We regret that the gig at Guildhall Chester had to be cancelled.
Everyone with tickets should send them back to Mick Green, the promoter, at 8 The Anchorage, Waverton, CHESTER CH3 7PL, and he will issue refunds.
See also Steve’s message on the Guestbook page
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
There are still some tickets left for the show at the Shirehall, Hereford this coming Friday 09 Oct but all the other shows this week are sold out. For Hereford tickets click here
The Show of Hands concert at St Ives Festival on Wednesday 23rd September is now sold out
Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes will now be playing at The Acorn Theatre in Worksop on Saturday 19th September. LAST FEW TICKETS REMAINING. Box Office: 01909 501817 Website: Acorn Theatre
At Sidmouth Folk Week on Friday 7th Aug, the line-up for the launch of Folk Against Fascism included Steve, Eliza Carthy, Spiers & Boden, & Jim Moray.
Steve was interviewed by Paul Moss for The World Tonight about the event. A short part of the interview was broadcast last night, and is available on Listen Now (about 36 mins into the programme) and News Online
Concerts on the upcoming County Towns tour are selling quickly. Those already sold out include Abingdon (1st Oct), Aylesbury (2nd Oct), Warwick (7th Oct), Guildford (13th Oct), Winchester (18th Nov) and Worcester (20th Nov).
Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes will be back at Morwellham Quay nr Tavistock on Thursday 24 September, along with special guest Flossie Malavialle. The concert will be held in the atmospheric ‘Manganese Barn’ and space is limited.
News update (7th Aug) – NOW SOLD OUT.
The 12th Abbotsbury Summer Concert was blessed by fine weather and another full house. No Phil this year but an eclectic lineup put together and presented by Steve, with Martyn Joseph, Miranda Sykes with Miles Russell, Fishermen’s Friends, Jenna and Mawkin:Causley. Our thanks go to them, our great production crew, all the folks at Abbotsbury Tourism for the loan of their back garden to play in and you, the audience, for supporting the event in such numbers again.
Show of Hands get a 5* star review from the Independent for their recent concert at UCL Bloomsbury Theatre in London. To see the review online follow this link.
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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