Paul Heaton is going on tour – he’ll be promoting his new album, due out later this year!  The Pedals and Beer Pumps Tour is aimed at  highlighting cycling as a green form of transport and Pubs, on of PDH’s favourite places, which are steadily in decline!

5 May The Flying Horse – Rochdale, Lancs
6 May The Red Lion – Winsford, Cheshire
7 May The Horseshoe Inn – Ratlinghope, Shrops
8 May The Durham Ox – Shrewley, Warwicks
10 May The Three Horseshoes – Radnage, Bucks
11 May The Star Inn – Alton, Hants
12 May The Plough – Coldharbour, Surrey
13 May The Monarch – Camden, London
15 May The Bulls Head – St. Neots, Cambs
16 May The White Hart – Ufford, Lincs
17 May The Unicorn – Gunthorpe, Notts
18 May The Rockingham Arms – Rotherham, Yorks
20 May The White Horse – Hutton Cranswick, Yorks
21 May The Original Oak – Headingley, Yorks
22 May The Royal Hotel – Great Harwood, Lancs
23 May The Southern – Chorlton, Gtr Manchester

Tickets can be bought through the shiny Paul Heaton Website

New Beautiful South have announced a new autumn tour for November.  The band, which will include new Bass player Steve Nutter, will take to the road with 14 dates pencilled in, they are:

NOVEMBER 2009

10 Birmingham 02 Academy

11 Manchester Academy

12 Birkenhead Pacific Rd Arts Centre

13 Islington Academy

14 Day Off

15 Norwich Waterfront

16 Leeds Uni

17 Oxford Academy

18 Day off

19 Lincoln Engine Rooms

20 Sheffield Plug

21 Aberdeen Lemon Tree

22 Day off

23 Glasgow ABC

24 Newcastle Tyne Journal

25 Bath Komedia

26 Cambridge Junction

The band will be performing a short acoustic set this Thursday 13th August at THE DONKEY, LEICESTER as part of the SUMMER SUNDAE FRINGE FESTIVAL.

This is a fund-raising event for a local hospice that has 9 venues and over 35 bands around Leicester taking part.

All venues are linked by 3 open top buses dropping and picking up wristband wearing punters.

If you are near Leicester come and check the evening out.

NBS will be onstage at 7.30 prompt for a 25 minute slot – hopefully out in the garden weather permitting. Tickets £4