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In The Darkness

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In The Darkness is a track from Tim Booth’s 2004 solo album Bone. It was named Into The Darkness on the pre-release 7 track album promo and in early touring.

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Song Name:In The Darkness
Alternative Name(s):
Original Artist:Tim Booth
Song Type:Song
First Heard Live:Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
Original Release Album:Bone
Released:14th June 2004
This song is available on the following releases:
ReleaseArtistFormatYear
BoneTim BoothStudio Album2004
Bone (Promo, Japan)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
7 Tracks Promo for BoneTim BoothPromo Album2004
Bone (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
Entering the underground
You're just across the way
I know the stop you're getting off
I see you everyday
It's only space that separates across the morning train
My silent thoughts can't penetrate your ipod with my foreplay
Sex is fucking with my mind
It drives me down the line
Any girl with magic eyes
I want to make her mine
What can I do?
It must be you to leave the lovers train
Burn my house down to the ground
And calmly walk away
Into darkness
Temperature rising
My fortress is breached
Trembling fingers
No compromise reached
Eat you and lick you and spin as we climb
How much is too much
And who draws the line
Blood is much thicker than wine
In the darkness

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This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • London ICA - 11th November 2004
  • Manchester Royal Northern College Of Music - 9th November 2004
  • Leeds City Varieties - 8th November 2004
  • Glasgow Cottier Theatre - 7th November 2004
  • Porto Hard Club - 3rd November 2004
  • Brighton Concorde 2 - 19th July 2004
  • Norwich Waterfront - 18th July 2004
  • Oxford Zodiac - 13th July 2004
  • Bristol Fleece N Firkin - 12th July 2004
  • London Water Rats - 21st April 2004
  • Cardiff The Engine - 20th April 2004
  • Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms - 18th April 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 6th March 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
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    Falling Down.

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    Falling Down is a track from Tim Booth’s 2004 solo album Bone.

    It shouldn’t be confused with the James track of the same name off the Pleased To Meet You album.

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    Song Name:Falling Down
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:London ICA - 15th October 2003
    Original Release Album:Bone
    Released:14th June 2004
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    BoneTim BoothStudio Album2004
    Bone (Promo, Japan)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    Bone (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    Falling down again
    Thank God you're there to catch her
    Lost her crown again
    She swings through the centuries
    She won't tell her friends

    She's lost innocence
    Falling down again
    Falling
    Falling down again

    It's no pretty picture

    She's withdrawn inside
    To find her sanctuary
    She won't tell her friends
    She's lost innocence

    Not available on Spotify.

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
  • Leeds Cockpit - 27th April 2011
  • Cambridge Junction 2 - 26th April 2011
  • Birmingham Glee Club - 24th April 2011
  • Kendal Brewery Arts Centre - 23rd April 2011
  • Glasgow Oran Mor - 21st April 2011
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 6th March 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
  • New York Fez - 25th October 2003
  • London ICA - 15th October 2003
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    Discover

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    Discover is a track from Tim Booth’s 2004 solo album Bone.

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    Song Name:Discover
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:London ICA - 15th October 2003
    Original Release Album:Bone
    Released:14th June 2004
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    BoneTim BoothStudio Album2004
    Bone (Promo, Japan)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    Bone (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    So you gave me a home
    And you gave me a name
    And you told me, behave like the others
    Then you sent me to school
    Which was all about rules
    And I learnt to pretend
    And so I faked my way through school
    And now I faked my way to you
    In every face I look for signs of truth
    And when you cry I take your hand
    And when you rage I understand
    Look in my eyes
    I'm not like all the others
    It's time for you to discover
    Who I am becoming
    I may look like a man
    And talk like a man
    But I feel like a man undercover
    I don't feel real, I feel like a fake
    In a moment I'll break
    And so I'm prisoner to this guise
    I'm in for life, but what's my crime?
    I'm searching through my race to find
    Some long lost tribe long lost in time
    You fear that death will be the end
    I fear that we'll come back again
    I killed you once so let's pretend
    This time round we'll be good friends
    So I've been abuser and I've been abused
    I've been the Nazi and I've been the Jew
    I was the user and now I am used
    To recover those who wish to discover
    Who I am becoming

    Not available on Spotify.

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Chicago Martyrs - 9th February 2005
  • Birmingham Academy 2 - 16th July 2004
  • London Piccadilly St James' Church - 14th July 2004
  • Oxford Zodiac - 13th July 2004
  • Bristol Fleece N Firkin - 12th July 2004
  • Glastonbury Festival - 26th June 2004
  • Bedford Esquires - 23rd June 2004
  • London Water Rats - 21st April 2004
  • Liverpool Academy 3 - 19th April 2004
  • Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms - 18th April 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 6th March 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
  • New York Fez - 25th October 2003
  • London ICA - 15th October 2003
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    Love Hard

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    Love Hard is a track from Tim Booth’s 2004 solo album Bone.

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    Song Name:Love Hard
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
    Original Release Album:Bone
    Released:14th June 2004
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    BoneTim BoothStudio Album2004
    Bone (Promo, Japan)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    Bone (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    Tim Booth (5 Track Demo)Tim BoothPromo Single2001
    When I look through the bottle
    Every mountain magnified
    My balance is fried
    I can't even pray
    When I look through the bottle
    Every hue returns to grey
    There's nothing to say
    So I will say it anyway
    My love is a healer
    Just a look can purify
    A hard loving heart
    I've swallowed too much life
    Then why must I leave her?
    I can't stop the moving on
    Can't stay with the one
    Too much appetite
    I want you to love me so hard
    I want you to love so I can't stop
    Now I'm over the hill
    Too many fields
    Too much to choose from
    It's making me ill
    Let's go over the top
    Just give me a pill
    Too much to choose from
    It's making me ill

    Unavailable on Spotify.

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • London ICA - 11th November 2004
  • Manchester Royal Northern College Of Music - 9th November 2004
  • Leeds City Varieties - 8th November 2004
  • Glasgow Cottier Theatre - 7th November 2004
  • Porto Hard Club - 3rd November 2004
  • Brighton Concorde 2 - 19th July 2004
  • Norwich Waterfront - 18th July 2004
  • Birmingham Academy 2 - 16th July 2004
  • London Piccadilly St James' Church - 14th July 2004
  • Oxford Zodiac - 13th July 2004
  • Bristol Fleece N Firkin - 12th July 2004
  • London Water Rats - 21st April 2004
  • Cardiff The Engine - 20th April 2004
  • Liverpool Academy 3 - 19th April 2004
  • Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms - 18th April 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 6th March 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
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    Redneck

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    Redneck is a track from Tim Booth’s 2004 solo album Bone.

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    Song Name:Redneck
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
    Original Release Album:Bone
    Released:14th June 2004
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    BoneTim BoothStudio Album2004
    Bone (Promo, Japan)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    Bone (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    Lest old acquaintance be forgot
    I lost your number in the rush
    Our friendship suffered with my success
    The wind it blew me on
    Now I've been sacrified to entertain
    I went down smiling, it felt like pain
    The wind it blew me on
    The wind it blew me on
    I'm just ice-cream
    It's all rama rama
    I'm just space dust
    It's all rama rama
    I'm just ice-cream
    It's all rama rama
    Thought I was high class
    It's all rama rama
    So self-important to this scheme
    My tragic suffering
    No more than a dream
    I've got friends in higher places
    Don't you recognize my faces
    Millions want my auto-photograph
    Critics want to write my epitath
    I've got personal numberplates
    I've got more money than Bill Gates
    Run it, run it, run it back up to me
    Life my life on TV
    Run it, run it, run it back up to me
    I'm what you want to
    If I can't top this industry
    My birthright feeling incomplete
    I won't get sucked into this greed
    Cos I sing love is all you need
    Lest old acquaintance be forgot

    Unavailable on Spotify.

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
  • Cardiff The Engine - 20th April 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 6th March 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
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    Monkey God

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    Monkey God is a track from Tim Booth’s 2004 solo album Bone.

    It also gave his record company its name.

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    Song Name:Monkey God
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
    Original Release Album:Bone
    Released:14th June 2004
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    BoneTim BoothStudio Album2004
    Bone (Promo, Japan)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    7 Tracks Promo for BoneTim BoothPromo Album2004
    Bone (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    We co-create our own fate
    Everything's connected
    God in man, man from ape
    Everything's connected
    We co-create our own fate
    Everything's connected
    Man from stars, man from ape
    Everything's connected
    My behaviour's chemical, nurture biological
    Determined by the stars in space
    Don't rely on suicide
    Meet you on the other side
    It's not even your life to take
    See things from the stratosphere
    We're so unimportant here
    What's the point in asking why?
    Struggle of the underdog
    Too much love or not enough
    We die to live and live to die
    Meanwhile in the stratosphere
    Houston we've a problem here
    Someone's cut a hole in the sky
    Planet in a Petri dish
    Interference hit and miss
    Soon there won't be rivers to cry
    God's pitch shift way out of time
    Created an ape
    Infected with the spark of divine
    Mix X with the Y chromosome
    One to destroy
    The other tries to find a way home
    We co-create our own fate
    Everything's connected
    God in man, man from ape
    Everything's connected

    Unavailable on Spotify.

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Hop Farm Festival - 2nd July 2011
  • London Camden Dingwalls - 3rd May 2011
  • Brighton Komedia - 2nd May 2011
  • Sheffield Leadmill - 30th April 2011
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
  • Leeds Cockpit - 27th April 2011
  • Cambridge Junction 2 - 26th April 2011
  • Birmingham Glee Club - 24th April 2011
  • Kendal Brewery Arts Centre - 23rd April 2011
  • Glasgow Oran Mor - 21st April 2011
  • Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
  • London ICA - 11th November 2004
  • Manchester Royal Northern College Of Music - 9th November 2004
  • Leeds City Varieties - 8th November 2004
  • Glasgow Cottier Theatre - 7th November 2004
  • Porto Hard Club - 3rd November 2004
  • Brighton Concorde 2 - 19th July 2004
  • Norwich Waterfront - 18th July 2004
  • Birmingham Academy 2 - 16th July 2004
  • London Piccadilly St James' Church - 14th July 2004
  • Oxford Zodiac - 13th July 2004
  • Bristol Fleece N Firkin - 12th July 2004
  • T In The Park King Tut's Wah Wah Tent - 11th July 2004
  • Manchester Old Trafford Cricket Ground Move Festival - 10th July 2004
  • Glastonbury Festival - 26th June 2004
  • Bedford Esquires - 23rd June 2004
  • London Water Rats - 21st April 2004
  • Cardiff The Engine - 20th April 2004
  • Liverpool Academy 3 - 19th April 2004
  • Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms - 18th April 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 6th March 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
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    Bone

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    Bone is the title track from Tim Booth’s 2004 solo album Bone. It was initially performed under the name One.

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    Song Name:Bone
    Alternative Name(s):One
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:London ICA - 15th October 2003
    Original Release Album:Bone
    Released:14th June 2004
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    BoneTim BoothStudio Album2004
    Bone (Promo, Japan)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    Bone (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    From small beginnings rise the redwood
    To oversee 2000 years
    From her vantage, we're all insects
    From her stillness, we're all on speed
    Though each is different in its motion
    There's perfection in the seed
    What is going down?
    One man lives, one man dies
    One forgives, one gets crucified
    Life just takes you to the bone
    One is faithful, one is not
    One gets high upon the cross
    Life just takes you to the bone
    One born rich, one born poor
    Life's a bitch and I'm her whore
    Life just takes you to the bone
    In the big picture
    Amongst humans
    There's such detail, light and shade
    All the ranges of confusion
    I'm with the fat man
    Life is change
    What is going down?
    What you doing with that body?
    It's just borrowed
    You confuse yourself, you confuse yourself
    You're not mind
    You're not thought
    You're not flesh
    It's not yours
    Take your foot off the gas
    There's a human being in here
    That's beside yourself
    There's a spirit in here
    You're beside yourself
    Slow down, reach out, I guess
    One just prays to be in love
    The other one kills in the name of God
    Life just takes you to the bone
    One makes bombs in Palestine
    Nothing to lose except his life
    Just takes you to the bone

    Unavailable on Spotify.

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Glasgow SWG3 - 21st May 2024
  • London Union Chapel - 20th May 2024
  • Hop Farm Festival - 2nd July 2011
  • London Camden Dingwalls - 3rd May 2011
  • Brighton Komedia - 2nd May 2011
  • Sheffield Leadmill - 30th April 2011
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
  • Leeds Cockpit - 27th April 2011
  • Cambridge Junction 2 - 26th April 2011
  • Birmingham Glee Club - 24th April 2011
  • Kendal Brewery Arts Centre - 23rd April 2011
  • Glasgow Oran Mor - 21st April 2011
  • Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
  • London ICA - 11th November 2004
  • Manchester Royal Northern College Of Music - 9th November 2004
  • Leeds City Varieties - 8th November 2004
  • Glasgow Cottier Theatre - 7th November 2004
  • Porto Hard Club - 3rd November 2004
  • Brighton Concorde 2 - 19th July 2004
  • Guildford Festival - 17th July 2004
  • Birmingham Academy 2 - 16th July 2004
  • London Piccadilly St James' Church - 14th July 2004
  • Oxford Zodiac - 13th July 2004
  • Bristol Fleece N Firkin - 12th July 2004
  • Glastonbury Festival - 26th June 2004
  • Bedford Esquires - 23rd June 2004
  • London Water Rats - 21st April 2004
  • Cardiff The Engine - 20th April 2004
  • Liverpool Academy 3 - 19th April 2004
  • Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms - 18th April 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 6th March 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
  • New York Fez - 25th October 2003
  • London ICA - 15th October 2003
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    Down To The Sea

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    Released on Tim Booth’s solo album Bone.

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    Song Name:Down To The Sea
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:London ICA - 15th October 2003
    Original Release Album:Bone
    Released:14th June 2004
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Down To The SeaTim BoothStudio Single2004
    BoneTim BoothStudio Album2004
    Bone (Promo, Japan)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    Bone (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    Tim Booth (5 Track Demo)Tim BoothPromo Single2001
    Down To The Sea (Tim Booth)Tim BoothVideo Single2004
    Down To The Sea (Tim Booth)Tim BoothVideo Single2004
    Everyone's a victim
    No one is to blame
    Find a bum to dump it on
    This unwanted shame

    When I point the finger
    I've got three pointing back, haven't a clue
    What you've been through
    So it's easy to attack

    Everybody's looking
    For their own way to get high
    Find God, shoot him up
    Learn how to die

    My head's full of
    Self-pity and noise
    I need a clean me
    I need a new voice

    Go down
    Down to the sea
    Down to the ocean
    She's calling to me

    Everybody's famous
    For a second or two
    We could address the world's distress
    But the pop star's on too

    Looking so damn lonely
    Looking for a soul
    Trying hard to cover up
    The emptiness, the hole

    What you're calling culture
    Is just arcades and malls
    I can't hear myself think
    I can't hear my heart sink

    Here's a diversion
    A howl at the moon
    The only time I feel alive
    Is when I'm with you

    Go down
    Down to the sea
    Down to the ocean
    She's calling to me

    Gonna wash away my
    Fears of this place
    Gonna wash away my
    Tears from your face

    Unavailable on Spotify.

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Hop Farm Festival - 2nd July 2011
  • Patras Old Church - 8th May 2011
  • London Camden Dingwalls - 3rd May 2011
  • Brighton Komedia - 2nd May 2011
  • Sheffield Leadmill - 30th April 2011
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
  • Leeds Cockpit - 27th April 2011
  • Cambridge Junction 2 - 26th April 2011
  • Birmingham Glee Club - 24th April 2011
  • Chicago Martyrs - 9th February 2005
  • London ICA - 11th November 2004
  • Manchester Royal Northern College Of Music - 9th November 2004
  • Leeds City Varieties - 8th November 2004
  • Glasgow Cottier Theatre - 7th November 2004
  • Porto Hard Club - 3rd November 2004
  • Chelmsford V Festival - 21st August 2004
  • Brighton Concorde 2 - 19th July 2004
  • Norwich Waterfront - 18th July 2004
  • Guildford Festival - 17th July 2004
  • Birmingham Academy 2 - 16th July 2004
  • London Piccadilly St James' Church - 14th July 2004
  • Oxford Zodiac - 13th July 2004
  • Bristol Fleece N Firkin - 12th July 2004
  • T In The Park King Tut's Wah Wah Tent - 11th July 2004
  • Manchester Old Trafford Cricket Ground Move Festival - 10th July 2004
  • Glastonbury Festival - 26th June 2004
  • Bedford Esquires - 23rd June 2004
  • London Water Rats - 21st April 2004
  • Cardiff The Engine - 20th April 2004
  • Liverpool Academy 3 - 19th April 2004
  • Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms - 18th April 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 6th March 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
  • New York Fez - 25th October 2003
  • London ICA - 15th October 2003
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    Wave Hello

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    Wave Hello was first released on the solo Tim Booth album Bone. It was initially performed under the name Shame.

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    Song Name:Wave Hello
    Alternative Name(s):Shame
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:London ICA - 15th October 2003
    Original Release Album:Bone
    Released:14th June 2004
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    BoneTim BoothStudio Album2004
    Wave HelloTim BoothStudio Single2004
    Wave Hello (Radio Edit)Tim BoothPromo Single2004
    Bone (Promo, Japan)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    7 Tracks Promo for BoneTim BoothPromo Album2004
    Bone (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2004
    I just love you to death
    So you promised for life
    Just hope my intentions hold sway
    From this place that I stand
    I'm afraid of such plans
    Things never turn out my way
    Its this duality
    Thought to reality
    Some bug will get in the way
    Some days it feels
    That I will never find land
    Just spin around on the wheel
    Wave hello
    Shame we wont stay

    Wave hello
    Shame we wont stay
    We've been here before
    And well meet here again
    When we go through the end of the line
    So love me to death
    Stand by you in life
    A love that's tested in time
    Welcome aboard the burning man
    Hitch a ride on the burning man
    Shame we wont stay

    Not available on Spotify.

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • London Camden Dingwalls - 3rd May 2011
  • Brighton Komedia - 2nd May 2011
  • Sheffield Leadmill - 30th April 2011
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
  • Leeds Cockpit - 27th April 2011
  • Cambridge Junction 2 - 26th April 2011
  • Birmingham Glee Club - 24th April 2011
  • Kendal Brewery Arts Centre - 23rd April 2011
  • Glasgow Oran Mor - 21st April 2011
  • Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
  • Chicago Martyrs - 9th February 2005
  • London ICA - 11th November 2004
  • Manchester Royal Northern College Of Music - 9th November 2004
  • Leeds City Varieties - 8th November 2004
  • Glasgow Cottier Theatre - 7th November 2004
  • Porto Hard Club - 3rd November 2004
  • Chelmsford V Festival - 21st August 2004
  • Brighton Concorde 2 - 19th July 2004
  • Norwich Waterfront - 18th July 2004
  • Guildford Festival - 17th July 2004
  • Birmingham Academy 2 - 16th July 2004
  • London Piccadilly St James' Church - 14th July 2004
  • Oxford Zodiac - 13th July 2004
  • Bristol Fleece N Firkin - 12th July 2004
  • T In The Park King Tut's Wah Wah Tent - 11th July 2004
  • Manchester Old Trafford Cricket Ground Move Festival - 10th July 2004
  • Glastonbury Festival - 26th June 2004
  • Bedford Esquires - 23rd June 2004
  • London Water Rats - 21st April 2004
  • Cardiff The Engine - 20th April 2004
  • Liverpool Academy 3 - 19th April 2004
  • Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms - 18th April 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 6th March 2004
  • Brighton Sussex Arts Club - 25th February 2004
  • New York Fez - 25th October 2003
  • London ICA - 15th October 2003
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