Dexy's Midnight Runners: as previously announced, Kevin Rowland, Lucy Morgan, Pete Williams and "others" are taking Dexy's on the road for the first time in years. Tickets cost around £20 + booking fee. Meep!

OCTOBER
21st - Portsmouth Guildhall
23rd - Wolverhampton Civic Hall
25th - Leeds Grand
26th - Basingstoke The Anvil
28th - Bristol Colston Hall
29th - Cambridge Corn Exchange
31st - Guildford Civic Hall

NOVEMBER
2nd - Aberdeen Music Hall
3rd - Glasgow Pavilion
4th - Newcastle Opera House
6th - Manchester Academy
7th - Liverpool Royal Court
8th - Northampton Derngate
10th - London Royal Festival Hall **SOLD OUT
11th - Milton Keynes Stables
12th - Plymouth Pavilions
14th - Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
16th - Belfast Waterfront
18th - Leicester De Montfort Hall

Inpsiral Carpets: back on the road after a hugely successful jaunt round the country in spring, and pretty much every festival they could blag onto the bill for... Moo!

AUGUST
16th - V2003 Shaffordshire, Weston Park
17th - V2003 Chelmsford, Hylands Park
22nd - Canterbury Fayre

NOVEMBER
30th - Nottingham Rock City

DECEMBER
1st - Glasgow Academy
2nd - York Barbican
5th - London Shepherds Bush Empire
6th - Manchester Apollo

Jim Bob: back doing his solo 'thang' as acoustic troubadour, playing his own tunes, stuff from Carter USM days and maybe one or two from Jim's Super Stereoworld toooooo.

OCTOBER
16th - Birmingham Glee Club
17th - Glasgow 13th Note Café
18th - Frome St John's Hall
19th - Winchester Railway
22nd - Northampton The Soundhaus
23rd - London Lock 17 (formerly Dingwalls)
24th - Worcester Marrs Bar
25th - Ivybridge Rugby Club
26th - Cheltenham Playhouse Theatre
28th - Manchester Night & Day
29th - Nottingham Maze
30th - Sheffield Casbah

Abdoujaparov: Fruitbat's post-Carter USM project in the form of punk rock played by men old enough to know better. ;-)

AUGUST
8th - London Underworld (with Katastrophy Wife, Bernard and Go Rimbaud)

OCTOBER (other tour dates tbc)
2nd - Sheffield Casbah
3rd - London Metro
9th - Worcester Marrs Bar