April 2007
March 23 - The Proclaimers sign to W14/Universal for new album
click to read press release
April 16 - The Herald - Plenty of miles left to go.
www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/display.var.1332472.0.0.php
April 15 - Sunday Herald - East side story.
www.sundayherald.com/life/people/display.var.1329646.0.east_side_story.php
April 15 - Virgin Radio Live Acoustic Session (video).
www.virginradio.co.uk/music/artists/the_proclaimers/index.html
April 13 - Variety - Proclaimers bask in sunshine.
www.variety.com/article/VR1117963054.html?categoryid=1747&cs=
April 6 - The Scotsman - It's gonna be huge, Stephen Greenhorn.
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=528232007&format=print
April 2 - Times Online Podcast
http://podcast.timesonline.co.uk/
April 2 - In shops now - MOJO -Issue 162/May 2007 - The Proclaimers feature
PREVIOUS NEWS
March 23
The Proclaimers sign to W14/Universal for new album
click to read press release
November 2006
The writing of the new album is going very well and all on course to see the next Proclaimers album released in the second half of 2007. More on that soon and subsequent tour plans that will see the band back out live from next summer.
Full ticket info coming very soon on 'Sunshine On Leith - A Musical', as well as opening in Dundee the show performed by the Dundee Rep Ensemble will be performed in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow ( full run from April 21st to June 9th 2007).
Viewers in Scotland can see some celebs vying for your votes on BBC 1 TV's Children in Need as they perform Proclaimers songs, in a segment of the show called 'Spex Factor' on Friday 17th November.
Here are a couple of links to our wonderful duo, bassist Garry John and drummer Ross's other project Button Up www.myspace.com/buttonupmusic and for anyone with a Liverpudlian affiliation, Tom Simpson who we worked with on a 2001 USA tour with Barenaked Ladies, is back home and has set up www.liverpooltelly.com
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
To view the archive of our recent news,
please select
'The News' from the menu at the top of the page.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Proclaimers - The Musical.
We look forward to announcing shortly, more information on the contemporary Scottish musical, due to launch in Spring 2007. Written by Stephen Greenhorn and performed by Dundee Rep Ensemble using Proclaimers songs and music.
See link below.
http://www.sundayherald.com/57967
September 2006
The Proclaimers have enjoyed a fantastic summer with a string of live dates, highlights included Ayr Burnsfest, Newcastle Evolution, Isle of Wight Festival, Reprieve benefit at London's Shakespeare Globe Theatre, T In The Park, their first ever gig in Moscow, Big Chill, Summer Sundae, Beautiful Days, Liverpool Matthew Street Festival, Solfest and Bryn Terfel Faenol Festival in Wales.
Craig and Charlie are now writing new songs with a view to recording their next album early in 2007 and being back out live from next summer.
We will update news once plans are finalised.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Proclaimers have had a great summer with live highlights including Ayr Burnsfest, Newcastle Evolution, Isle of Wight Festival and T In The Park.
August sees 9 more shows, these will be the final gigs for 2006 as Craig and Charlie spend the rest of the year concentrating on writing new songs, aiming to record a new album in 2007 and be back out live later next year.
August 2006 The Proclaimers Live
05 Ireland, Mitchelstown Festival
www.mitchelstownfest.com
06 Eastnor Castle, Big Chill
www.bigchill.net
11 Birmingham MAC Sound In The Round SOLD OUT
12 Leicester Summer Sundae
www.summersundae.com
18 Truro Hall For Cornwall
www.hallforcornwall.co.uk
19 Devon, Beautiful Days SOLD OUT
26 Liverpool Matthew Street Festival (on stage 1.30pm) Free Show
27 Solfest Cumbria SOLD OUT
28 Wales, Bangor, Bryn Terfel Faenol Festival
www.brynfest.com
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Proclaimers are delighted to announce their first ever concert in Moscow, as guests of The St Andrew Society of Russia.
They will be performing at The Hermitage Gardens on Saturday 29th July.
Tickets for the concerts can be bought from DHL offices in the centre of Moscow- tel 956 0000 offices located at ul. 1st Tverskaya Yamskaya 11, Zemlyanoy Val 48B and Chistoprudniy Buylvd 12/4 all from 0900 - 2100
The St Andrew Society of Russia was founded in 1993 by Mike Mackie, Tom Crozier and Archie McIntyre as an outlet for expatriated Scots and friends of Scotland to meet socially on a monthly basis and to promote Scottish culture in Moscow. This all culminated in the first St Andrew Society Ball, which is now a regular feature on the Moscow social calendar. Monies raised by the Ball were then routed to Russian charities. The past few years have seen all monies raised going to the Tomilino Children's centre.
The Summer Stramash event is a charitable summer event established in 2003 with the purpose of giving expats and their families based in Moscow a summer party with a Scottish flavour. Distinct from the other two events organized by the St. Andrew Society, the Stramash is designed to give a more upbeat view on modern Scotland.
http://www.mosgorsad.ru
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Proclaimers will ask fans to support Scottish charity Momentum at their forthcoming gigs at CLYDEBANK TOWN HALL on 26th May and the BURNS AN' A' THAT Festival in Ayr on 27th. We will ask people to show support by texting MOM to 84858 during the show. By joining The Proclaimers in this, fans will be making a £3 donation.
Momentum works across Scotland to assist disabled and excluded people to gain skills and jobs and to get their lives back on track. Momentum also provides care services, employment opportunities and programmes to help people rebuild their lives after substance misuse. 1500 people across Scotland received Momentum¹s help last year, assisting them to open doors they previously thought locked. www.momentumscotland.org
The Proclaimers are proud to announce their participation in a very special evening.
Monday 5th June
London Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Globe Box Office 020 7401 9919.
 An Evening for Human Rights, to benefit Reprieve, a UK charity that fights for the lives of people facing the death penalty and other human rights violations. www.reprieve.org.uk
Reprieve have been given a wonderful opportunity, as they have been adopted as Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s only sponsored charity for 2006 and this is the first time that the Globe have donated the use of the theatre to acharity. www.shakespeares-globe.org
As well as The Proclaimers performing acoustically, there will be music from Steve Earle, Allison Moorer and David Knopfler and comedy from Mark Thomas, Stewart Lee, and Kevin Eldon.
To buy tickets for this event, please call the Box Office at Shakespeare's
Globe on 020 7401 9919. Online ticketing is not available. For further
information please visit www.reprieve.org.uk or www.shakespeares-globe.org
 Look out for new Family Guy episode "You May Now Kiss the...uh...Guy Who Receives" (FG428)
...where it's Peter and The Proclaimers!!!
We are pleased to confirm more summer live dates for The Proclaimers.
Sunday 4th June – Letterkenny, The Clanree Hotel.
Tickets on sale from the Hotel 0749124369
Friday 23d June – Magherfelt, The Terrace Hotel.
Tickets on sale from the Hotel 028796 33434
Sunday 25th June – Armagh, The Marketplace Theatre.
Tickets on sale from 028375 21821.
Friday 30th June - St Magnus Festival, Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney. SOLD OUT
Box office - Grooves Records, Kirkwall. Tickets on sale 13th May.
01856 872239 & www.seetickets.com
Friday 7th July - Cactus Festival, Belgium.
www.cactusfestival.be
Saturday 12th August - Leicester Summer Sundae. www.summersundae.com
Friday 18th August - Truro, Hall For Cornwall.
Tickets on sale 1st June.
01872 262466 www.hallforcornwall.co.uk
Saturday 19th August - Beautiful Days.
www.beautifuldays.org SOLD OUT
Dates confirmed so far....
May
25 Strathpeffer Pavilion SOLD OUT
26 Clydebank Town Hall SOLD OUT
May 27 Ayr, Burnsfest
29 Newcastle Orange Evolution Festival
June
03 Sligo Festival
04 Letterkenny The Clanree Hotel
10 Isle of Wight Festival SOLD OUT
23 Magherfelt The Terrace Hotel
24 Banbridge Buskfest
25 Armagh The Marketplace Theatre
30 St Magnus Festival Orkney SOLD OUT
July
07 Cactus Festival Belgium
09 T In The Park SOLD OUT
29 Moscow venue tbc
05 Ireland Mitchelstown Festival
06 Big Chill
August
11 Birmingham MAC Sound In The Round
12 Leicester Summer Sundae
18 Truro Hall For Cornwall
19 Beautiful Days Festival SOLD OUT
27 Cumbria Solfest
28 tbc
The Proclaimers will be performing at Burns Festival in Ayr on May 27th, 'Fresh Ayr' a free open-air concert (19.15-22.45) info at
www.burnsfestival.com
THE PROCLAIMERS ANNOUNCE 2 SCOTTISH SHOWS
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 31st MARCH
Thursday 25th May :: Strathpeffer The Spa Pavilion SOLD OUT
Friday 26th May :: Clydebank Town Hall SOLD OUT
Tickets - 0870 903 3444 :::: www.ticketweb.co.uk
The Proclaimers have always made a point of playing halls the length and breadth of Scotland and having clocked up performing in 38 Scottish cities, towns and villages to date, The Proclaimers are delighted to add 2 more places to that list with their first ever live shows in Stathpeffer and Clydebank. These gigs will be their only concert appearances in Scotland this year.
The Proclaimers are spending 2006 back in Edinburgh writing a new album, but will be doing a few festival appearances this summer including May 29th Newcastle Orange Evolution, 3rd June Sligo Live, 10th June Isle of Wight Festival, 9th July T In The Park and 6th August Big Chill. More to be added.
Wednesday 29th March
The Proclaimers have confirmed they will be appearing at The Big Chill, Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire on Sunday 6th August. www.bigchill.net
Wednesday 22nd March
The Proclaimers are confirmed to perform along with Hard-Fi, Graham Coxon, Freestylers and others on Monday 29th May at Newcastle's Orange Evolution Festival. www.orangeevolution.co.uk.
The Proclaimers will also be headlining at Sligo live Music Festival on
Saturday 3d June. www.sligolive.ie
Thursday 16th March 2006
The Proclaimers are delighted to confirm that they will be appearing at the Isle of Wight Festival on Saturday 10th June.
www.isleofwightfestival.com
 Wednesday 15th March
The Proclaimers are delighted to confirm they will be making their third T In The Park appearance this year, main stage on Sunday 9th July.
Confirmed gigs also are Saturday 24th June
in N Ireland at Banbridge Buskfest and
Sunday 27th August at Solway Festival in Cumbria.
More summer shows to be confirmed shortly...
Monday 6th March 2006
After a great 2005 that saw The Proclaimers release their sixth studio album 'Restless Soul' and tour extensively from May to Hogmanay, The Proclaimers are off the road this year as Craig and Charlie are back home in Edinburgh writing their next album. They will however be doing a few live dates over the summer in the UK and Ireland and we shall be announcing these dates as they are confirmed.
Proclaimers fans in Northern Ireland can look out for the comedy series 'Dry Your Eyes', a brand new comedy sketch show starring the Hole In The Wall Gang starting on BBC 1 TV Northern Ireland on Fri 10 Mar, 10:35 pm.
The Proclaimers have written a new theme tune for the programme which they recorded in Glasgow in January of this year.
The end of last year saw The Proclaimers undertake a mammoth 36-date UK & Ireland tour, their biggest ever tour of England and finally ended the year in style at Aberdeen's Hogmanay concert in front of 30,000+ happy revellers.
This tour followed hot on the heels of a six-week September/October 26 date tour of Canada and USA. Whilst in Los Angeles, Craig and Charlie recorded parts for a new episode of the hit animation ‘Family Guy’.
The first half of 2005 saw The Proclaimers record a brilliant new album
‘Restless Soul’ during March/April in London. June saw them kick off touring for the year with a sell out 6 date mini tour, paying first visits to Dunoon, Campbeltown, Aviemore, St Andrews, Galashiels and Glasgow’s newest venue, ABC. In between a stonking gig at Glastonbury earned them 5 star NME and Q reviews. The Proclaimers were then a major highlight of Edinburgh Live8 concert at Murrayfield Stadium as they had the privilege of opening the evening to a typically rapturous acclaim. Major festival appearances to packed crowds and rave receptions continued over the summer including Guilfest, Galway Arts, Cambridge, Feile an Phobail, Belladrum and V2005 festivals.
Update 31st December 2005
A very, very happy new year to you and thanks to everyone who made it along to concerts in 2005 and helped make it such a memorable year for The Proclaimers.
2006 is going to be quieter as Craig and Charlie get back to writing the next album but we hope to do some live shows over the summer months and will announce as soon as anything is confirmed.
 Craig, Charlie and on road backline technician Buddy (huge Family Guy fan) with Family Guy's creator Seth MacFarlane in LA during October, after Craig and Charlie recorded their parts for forthcoming episode.
Weds 30th November
BBC1 TV Scotland 10.35pm 'Something About Harry', a documentary on Harry Lauder featuring Craig and Charlie discussing Harry.
Aberdeen's Hogmanay
December 31st 2005 Castlegate, Aberdeen
Free festival,
supporting The Proclaimers will be The Coral and Liberty X
The Proclaimers are delighted to be bringing in the new year in Aberdeen,
full info at www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/ACC_Data/news%20item/ppu_news_051118a.asp
OUT NOW LIVE8 DVD
The Proclaimers opened the Murrayfield Stadium Concert which features on the official Live8 DVD wwwlive8livedvd.com
Friday 28th October : Radio stream available
Click here to listen to The Proclaimers on Five Live with Simon Mayo
Wednesday 26th October Update
 The Proclaimers will be appearing for a live interview on Friday 28th
October at 8.05am on BBC Radio London's 'Jono' Coleman Breakfast show.
11.30am will see them chatting live again on ITV News channel with Alistair Stewart.
 2.30pm and Craig and Charlie are live on BBC Radio 5 Live with Simon Mayo.
They will the be interviewed for the ILR Radio Network's Entertainment News for broadcast the following week to coincide with the start of The Proclaimers 2 month UK tour.
 Sunday 30th October sees Craig and Charlie appearing around 9.50am on BBC1 TV's Sunday AM with Andrew Marr, being interviewed and playing out the show with an acoustic performance. Click here to watch the show
8th October 2005
The Proclaimers have been thoroughly enjoying their gigs across Canada and USA which ends in California and Nevada this week. When in LA, Craig and Charlie are recording dialogue for the great animated series 'Family Guy' where they will be featured in a future episode.
Craig and Charlie and band undertake a mammoth 37 date UK & Ireland tour through November and December. Dates listed below. We will confirm some upcoming UK radio/TV appearances shortly.
We deeply regret losing all the contents on the message boards after a
hacker destroyed everything, We had been advised the contents were secure
but alas this proved not to be the case and thousands of excellent and
informative comments and opinions have subsequently vanished into the ether. We have set up a new board to start again.
December 22nd : 2nd Glasgow carling academy show added, for ticket info see gig listing below ...
September 6th update
Thursday 8th September sees Craig and Charlie feature on BBC 1 TV (UK) at 11.25pm on 'Kings Of Country' where they give their take on Merle Haggard and others.
September/October Canada & USA tour see below
November/December UK & Ireland tour see below
It has been a brilliant year so far for The Proclaimers.
They recorded a sensational new album during March/April in London. The sixth studio album 'Restless Soul' produced by Mark Wallis & David Ruffy is out now and getting great reviews.
June saw The Proclaimers kicking off ten months of touring with a sell out 6 date mini Scottish tour, paying first visits to Dunoon, Campbeltown, Aviemore, St Andrews, Galashiels and Glasgow’s newest venue, ABC. In between a stonking gig at Glastonbury earned them 5 star NME and Q reviews.
The Proclaimers were then a major highlight of Edinburgh Live8 concert at Murrayfield Stadium as they had the privilege of opening the evening to a typically rapturous reception. Major festival appearances and accolades galore continued over the summer including Guilfest, Galway Arts, Cambridge, Feile an Phobail and Belladrum. The summer season finished with a flourish at V2005 festivals where extra security and barriers had to be brought to the JJB Arena tent for The Proclaimers set due to the thousands of frustrated fans who could not get in.
Craig and Charlie and band are now on tour for the rest of this year and looking forward immensely to the shows.
UK & IRELAND TOUR
Special guests England & Wales Damien Dempsey www.damiendempsey.com
Special guests Scotland Sandi Thom www.sandithom.com
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
15th August update
An Evening with The Proclaimers
To celebrate the release of 'Restless Soul', The Proclaimers are performing a winners only concert in Glasgow for around 200 fans on Thursday 25th August.
You can win tickets via Sunday Post contest, to enter phone competition hotline 09010 304 000 and answer question "what is the name of the new Proclaimers album". Or tune into Forth 2, Clyde 2, MFR, Northsound 2, Tay AM, Westsound AM or Radio Borders all week from Monday 15th August for your chance to win tickets. A handful of winners will also get the chance to meet Craig and Charlie on the night.
You must be 18 yrs or older to attend the show, which will later be
broadcast across the network.
UK Media update 5th August
Tuesday 9th AUG sees The Proclaimers appearing on GMTV performing two songs and chat between approx 07.30 and 09.00.
Weds 10th AUG Craig & Charlie will be appearing on ITV's This Morning
10.30-12.30 being interviewed on banks of Loch Ness and showing new Restless Soul video
Sat 13th AUG BBC Radio London 18.00 with Gary Crowley.
Mon 15th AUG BBC Radio 2 19.00 in conversation with Simon Mayo on Album Chart Show
We are delighted to finally confirm the full list of The Proclaimers
remaining tour dates for 2005.
August 2005
06 Southampton Eastleigh Summer Music Festival
www.eastfest.co.uk
07 Belgium Dranouter Festival
www.folkdranouter.be
13 Belladrum Festival
www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
20 V2005 Chelmsford
www.vfestival.com
21 V2005 Stafford
www.vfestival.com
27 Ballycastle Open Air & Lammas Fair Concert
www.jwpromos.com
28 Greenbelt Festival www.greenbelt.org.uk
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
26th July update
On Friday July 29th, 5 to 7pm - BBC RADIO 2 'DRIVETIME WITH STUART MACONIE'. At 6.45pm - live interview and live acoustic performance from The Proclaimers backstage at Cambridge Festival.
Update 13th July
A one hour Radio Special on The Proclaimers will be aired on Sky TV Digital Channel 913 on the following dates...
THURSDAY 14th JULY at 3pm - APPLE FM RADIO
and
MONDAY 18th JULY at 5pm - PIPELINE RADIO
Anyone who has Sky TV can tune in - simply tap in 913 on your Sky Remote control and you will get it.
The programme, presented and produced by Stuart Cameron features a chat with Charlie and Craig recorded at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh during their rehearsals for the upcoming tour.
July 11th
The Proclaimers opening Live8 Murrayfield Stadium on 6th July.
Click here to watch it on BBC .co.uk
7th July : Live update
The Proclaimers will be appearing at V2005 festivals, playing the JJB Arena Stage at Chelmsford on August 20th and Stafford on August 21st.
5th July 2005
THE PROCLAIMERS WILL APPEAR ON BBC RADIO 2 JEREMY VINE SHOW AT 12.00, NOON WEDS 6th JULY
The Proclaimers have been back on the road with a bang in June as they build
up to the their sixth studio album release 'Restless Soul' released in UK on
August 8th (ROW dates to follow).
The Proclaimers will open Edinburgh Live8 'The Final Push' concert at
Murrayfield Stadium on Wednesday 6th July, having just had fantastic acclaim
and reviews from their performance at Glastonbury and a string of sold out
Scottish dates.
July and August sees them continuing to perform at a series of major
festivals and events (see The Gigs section) which include a free concert at
Bermondsey Beat in London's Southwark Park on 9th July, then Galway Arts
Festival, Guilfest, Blackburn Arts In The Park and BBC Radio 2 Cambridge
Festival
Click here for The Proclaimers NME GLASTONBURY REVIEW
Charlie Reid Scotsman 2nd July (click to visit)
Update 10th June
It will now be Monday 13th June before the organisers have the Murrayfield ticket information announced. Check press on Monday and www.live8live.com for info.
NEWS: Tuesday 7th June
More info will follow ASAP with tickets being made available this Friday as The Proclaimers confirm that they will be performing at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh on Wednesday 6th July as part of the Live 8 Make Poverty History campaign. The concert is being held to coincide with the first day of the G8 summit being held in Gleneagles, Scotland.
Midge Ure has unveiled many of the acts who are set to perform at the
Scottish Live 8 concert next month in Edinburgh which will coincide with The
Long Walk to Justice rally in the city and will also see the likes of
Travis, Snow Patrol, Texas, The Thrills, The Zutons, Damon Albarn, Dido,
Jamie Cullum, Youssou N'Dour, Wet Wet Wet, Embrace and Annie Lennox
performing at Murrayfield. Organiser Midge Ure has urged as many people as
possible to turn up and "be part of a day which might just change the
world".
Gig update 5th June
The Proclaimers are confirmed to perform on
Saturday 27th August at
Ballycastle OPEN AIR @ LAMMAS FAIR CONCERT
Visit www.jwpromos.com for more info on the concert.
Gig update 20th May
A rare chance to see The Proclaimers live in a more intimate Glasgow venue as tickets go on sale Friday 20th May for...
30-June Glasgow ABC with special guests Aberfeldy SOLD OUT
This is a new 1200 capacity venue in a revamped cinema on Sauchiehall Street and The Proclaimers feature as part of a month of opening nights being scheduled by our good friends at Regular Music.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
See the web site The Gigs section for a full list of UK and Ireland summer
festival shows and events.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Gig update 5th May
Tickets for the BBC Radio 2 Cambridge Festival on Friday 29th July, where The
Proclaimers are appearing, went on sale this week and are now sold out.
www.cambridge.gov.uk/public/ff/index.html
Also, the Scottish June dates are sold out bar a final few tickets for the St
Andrews gig.
www.ticketweb.co.uk
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Gig update April 28th
The Proclaimers are delighted to add a Scottish Highlands date to their live
summer schedule in the wonderful setting of the Italian Gardens at Belladrum
Festival, Beauly, near Inverness on Saturday 13th August
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2005
Ticket info
Telephone 01463 234234
www.thebooth.co.uk
Or, in person from Eden Court, Hootanannys, Debenhams and MVC Inverness
(regional ticket outlets will be added at the end of the week)
www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
FULL SUMMER SCHEDULE OF GIGS
NOW AVAILABLE IN THE GIGS SECTION
(Please use the menu above to go there)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
GIG Announcement Sunday 24th April
The Proclaimers will be performing alongside Alabama 3 & The Pogues at Guilfest 2005, Guildford, Surrey on Friday 15th July.
www.guilfest.com
Update 10th April 2005
Irelands national radio station RTE features an interview with Craig and
Charlie at 7.02pm Thursday, 14th April, on RTE Radio 1 as part of a series
called 'Relative Notes'.
www.rte.ie/radio1/relativenotes/
News Update 1st April 2005
June 18th Campbeltown gig has sold out, the 650 tickets went in the first 2 days on sale.
The Proclaimers are delighted to confirm they will be appearing on June 25th at Glastonbury Festival and on July 29th at BBC Radio 2 Cambridge Festival.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
News March 22nd 2005
The Proclaimers who are currently recording their sixth studio album in London with producer Mark Wallis & David Ruffy. Mark Wallis is regarded by his peers as the best pair of ears behind any studio console and is one of the most experienced and versatile
producers around having recorded classic cuts for The La's, The Smiths, U2,
Talking Heads, Travis, The Go-Betweens and Rooster amongst others.
Dave Ruffy has teamed up with Mark on productions for the last two years,
recently his beats CD's have been used by likes of Dr Dre. His previous
musical exploits saw him drum/MD with with The Ruts, Atzec Camera, Sinead
O'Connor, Prefab Sprout ,Waterboys, Kirsty McColl & Edwyn Collins.
The Proclaimers are then back out live, embarking upon a ten month World
tour, kicking off with 5 Scottish dates in June/July. The Proclaimers have always made a point of playing halls the length and breadth of Scotland and having clocked up performing in 32 Scottish cities, towns and villages to date, The Proclaimers are delighted this summer to add 5 more places to that list with their first ever live shows in Dunoon, Campbeltown, St Andrews, Aviemore and Galashiels.
(Click the poster image to view it larger)
 June
17 Dunoon Queens Hall
18 Campbeltown Victoria Hall
22 St Andrews Students Association
23 Aviemore Osprey Arena
July
02 Galashiels ‘The Big Day Out’
All tickets on sale from Thursday 24th March 05
www.ticketweb.co.uk
Held in a big top tent at Gala Fairydean FC’s Netherdale Stadium, the event coincides with the towns 75th anniversary Gathering Celebrations & ‘Braw Lads Week’ and is the first ever music festival to be held in the Borders.
In the studio recording with Craig and Charlie are the live band line-up with Stevie Christie on keyboards, Ross McFarlane on drums, Garry John Kane on bass and hot new guitarist Zac Ware.
Craig & Charlie Reid say “It has always meant a lot to us to play in a large variety of towns in Scotland and looking back, its surprising to realise that we have never played any of them before. We are looking forward to the gigs very much.”
A number of UK and European festivals will be announced shortly. Currently confirmed are July 7 London Bermondsey Beat, Southwark Park, July 23 Trowbridge Festival and August 6 Eastleigh Summer Festival nr Southampton.
The new album will be released in August with The Proclaimers touring in USA & Canada in September/October, returning for UK & Ireland tour in November & December. Early 2006 will see The Proclaimers return to Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
News January 31st
2005
Craig and Charlie have started pre-production,
working all the new songs
into final shape for recording their next album in March,
we'll have more
info on that very soon. We hope to release in all countries
in late autumn.
Regretfully due to their recording and studio commitments,
The Proclaimers
have been unable to participate in Scottish Tsunami benefit
concerts during
February but we look forward to being back out live by late
May and we'll be
announcing a few summer shows in UK and Ireland shortly.
One festival the band are delighted to be returning to is
Trowbridge on Saturday 23rd July, info at www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk
We are currently working on routing tours in the second half
of the year,
that will include Canada, USA, UK and Ireland. Aiming to get
to Australia,
New Zealand and Asia in early 2006.
More info on the live front, soon as dates confirmed.
News December 23rd 2004
Seasonal best wishes and a very
happy new year from Craig, Charlie and all in The Proclaimers/Persevere
Records camp.
We are delighted to confirm that The Proclaimers will be recording
their sixth studio album early in 2005 and will be back on
the road from May onwards. We will start confirming dates
etc very shortly.
Here is a link to the last interview Craig and Charlie did
on the 2003/04 album/tour, a splendid chat with Dave Schulps
at MJI Broadcasting in Los Angeles on 12th April 2004.
The interview is 42 minutes
long and you can
listen to it with Real Player Click
Here
Also... The Proclaimers performing 'There's A Touch'
at this years Glasgow's Hogmanay concert in George Square.
To dowload the 17mb Quicktime
of ' Click
Here
We are looking forward to the coming
year more than ever and with loads of
exciting things developing, we'll update you later in January.
Slainte
Persevere Records
23rd December 2004
------------------------
 News
November 16th 2004
I’m On My Way….Proclaimers
Swap Specs
for Shades to Launch Sahara Fundraiser
Scots musical twins the Proclaimers today swapped their trademark
specs for sunglasses and kicked up a sandstorm with the camels
at Edinburgh Zoo to launch a charity fundraising trek across
the Sahara.
Craig and Charlie Reid took time out from song-writing sessions
for their sixth album to pose with Holly and Khan in the camel
enclosure to get a taste of what’s in store for trekkers
who sign up for the once-in-a-lifetime desert adventure.
Click here for full story
(word doc)
Click picture to view larger
- - - - -
News September 2004
Craig and Charlie are writing
briskly for their sixth studio album and new songs are stacking
up.
We anticipate recording very early in 2005 and back out live
from next summer onwards. All will be quiet on The Proclaimers
front until then and we look forward to announcing firm plans
in the new year.
 News July 2004
If you live in USA and have
access to Direct
TV you can celebrate new year's eve in August. Direct are
broadcasting The Proclaimers live concert recorded in George
Square, Glasgow (2003/04), free on 103 every weekend in August.
Craig and Charlie Reid finished ten
months of touring in April and are now writing for their sixth
studio album with a view to being back on the road live from
the summer of 2005.
<click image to view it
larger>
<or click
here to see the poster in Zoomifyer>
NEWS April 2004
April/May 2004 has seen The Proclaimers touring in Canada
and USA to coincide with the North American release of the
'Born Innocent' album.
Media praise across the globe has been fantastic, Here's a
couple of examples from the end of the tour in California.
Proclaim
This
More than a decade
after walking 500 miles, the
Proclaimers save pop rock with Born Innocent
by Buddy
Seigal
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Click
here to download the PDF
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The
Proclaimers - Live in West Hollywood
From
Paste Magazine
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Click
here to download the PDF
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2003
saw The Proclaimers recorded their fifth studio album in London
during May with producer, Edwyn Collins. June saw The Proclaimers
and band back on road with a Five Isles Tour to Bute, Skye,
Lewis, Orkney and Shetland. July saw a triumphant main stage
appearance at T In The Park, the month also saw The Proclaimers
perform to immense acclaim at Galway Arts Festival, The Stockton
International Riverside Festival, Trowbridge Music Festival
and Womad Rivermead 2003.
Following the UK release of their fifth album ‘Born
Innocent’ in September, October saw The Proclaimers
enjoying a 30 date sell out tour across UK and Ireland. November,
saw them touring Dubai, Singapore and Australia, including
two major outdoor shows as part of the Rugby World Cup 2003
at Sydney Darling Harbour and Perth Arena Joondalup on the
evenings of Englands victories over France and Australia.
December and The Proclaimers head back home for more sell
out shows in Scotland and going down an absolute storm to
over 2000 The Coral fans at Liverpool’s Royal Court,
when performing an hour long set as surprise special guests
at The Corals home town end of year show.
The old year ended and the new one began in
memorable style, headlining
Glasgow’s Hogmanay celebrations in front of 25,000 people
at the city’s
George Square, amidst 70mph gales and torrential rain. As
outdoor events
across the land were cancelled, miraculously the rain in Glasgow
stopped for
80 minutes as The Proclaimers took to the stage and soaked
Glaswegians
celebrated the New Year gleefully.
2004 saw The Proclaimers return to USA & Canada for a
30-date tour. After
which the band came off the road and Craig and Charlie have
been writing
briskly, aiming to record their sixth album early in 2005.
The Proclaimers
will then be back on the road next summer for a number of
festivals either
side of the Atlantic, with a Worldwide concert tour to follow.
Persevere Records
December 2004
The
Proclaimers in the Rolling Stone :: Click
Here ::
The Scotsman
Scotland's 100 best rock and pop albums
The Proclaimers have 3 albums in the top100.
Click
here to visit the feature at www.scotsman.com
- - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sing When You're Twinning
The Independent 17th October Interview/Feature
Click
here to download the PDF October
17th, 2003
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Evening News Live Review
Click
here to download the PDF October
13th, 2003
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Herald Live Review
October
13th, 2003
Click
here to download the PDF
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Scotsman Live Review from Falkirk Gig
October 2nd, 2003
Click here
to download the PDF
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Singing it like it is from The Times September
26, 2003
Click here to
view the PDF
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Click here
to view the Born Innocent E-card (Online)
Flash Plug-in required
Click here to download it:
PC Users (born.exe)
Mac Users (born_mac.sit)
Listen to Born Innocent
- - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Born Innocent Press
Reviews: Sept 2003
 Mojo
(Sept 2003)
(Click to
view press clip)
- - - - - - - - -
Sunday Herald (Sunday 14th
Sept 2003)
Review
Rock and Pop CDs:
The Proclaimers - Born Innocent (Persevere)
By Graeme Virtue
MAYBE it’s the bracing, box-fresh production by Edwyn
Collins. Or maybe I’m just getting old. Whatever it
is, the new album from The Proclaimers sounds terrific, effortlessly
combining all the attributes that have made them Scotland’s
best-loved band; it’s defiant, vibrant, witty and catchy.
And while there’s nothing here to quite match stone-cold
classics like Letter From America or I’m Gonna Be (500
Miles), the cheerfully self-lacerating Hate My Love approaches
that skyscraping level. Perhaps the whimsical Dear Deirdre
– addressed to the famous agony aunt – is a bit
throwaway, but the other 12 tracks (including a yodel-tastic
cover of Five O’Clock World by The Vogues) are brash
and boisterous. Next month, we’ll hear new albums from
Texas and Travis. But they’ll struggle to match this
gem from Craig and Charlie.
- - - - - - - - -
Scotland On Sunday (Sunday
14th Sept 2003)
Album reviews
Record of the Week
BORN INNOCENT ***** (Five Stars)
The Proclaimers
Persevere Persreccd09, £14.99
Three albums in as many years from the Reid twins? No, surely
and emphatically not shome mishtake, but the most composed
and confident record the twins have made in a 16-year career,
one which sounds like it was influenced by The Proclaimers
and not their country, soul and gospel heroes.
Bookended by the strident title track and the sublime ‘There’s
No Doubt’ facing down the ageing process with a bristling
honesty, this is an unapologetic and admirable piece of work.
Recorded by Edwyn Collins in his hi-tech retro home studio,
this is indeed an old fashioned rock record with old fashioned
rock values, enlivened by the distinctive sound of their own
touring band.
Stevie Christie’s keyboard squeezes extra heartbreak
from the aching ‘Unguarded Moments’, the Reids
amazingly yodel in harmony on a speeded-up bluesy version
of The Vogues’ ‘Five O’ Clock World’,
while Stuart Nisbet’s guitar thrashes out the punk rock
protest that is ‘Blood On Your Hands’.
Then we have ‘Hate My Love’, a venomous kiss-off
of a song that Elvis Costello would be proud to have in his
songbook, though even he might have stopped short of the killer
couplet, "You’re worse than drink, You’re
worse than crack, For you they should bring hanging back".
The fact they chose it as the first single is a statement
of intent, and you should ignore the older, wiser, angrier
Reid brothers at your peril. Colin Somerville
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Click here to read:
The
Sunday Herald Magazine Feature
Sunday 20th July by © Tina Norris
- - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Click here to read
T
in the Park 2003 Press Quotes
- - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 The
Proclaimers are back ripping up the Park
CRAIG McCLEAN, The Scotsman, Friday 11th July
Click
here to read the article
- - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Click here to read recent article from
the
Scotland on Sunday on June 29th 2003
Sun
keeps shining on the Reids by Aidan Smith
To listen to a one hour documentary on The Proclaimers, 'This
Is The Story' which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February,
click on the stream below.
Click
here to listen (Real Audio)
- - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Recent Gig Reviews May/June 2002
REID ALL ABOUT SCOTLAND’S NATIONAL BAND
From Edinburgh Evening News
Click
here for the article
THEY ONLY SING WHEN THEY’RE TWINNING
From The Sunday Mail
Click here
for the article
CROWD PROCLAIM THEIR HEROES
From The INVERNESS COURIER
Click
here for the article
ALBUM REVIEW FROM AMAZON.CO.UK
By Andrew Mueller
Click here for
the article
GIG REVIEW FROM BBCi Manchester 'Going out'
By Justin Bones
Click here
for the article
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Below is a radio interview courtesy
of BBC Radio Scotland:
Click
here to listen to the BBC Radio Scotland's Brian Morton Show
with Craig & Charlie from December 2001
|
