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Apply for Oct. UK Tour here
CMEAS has booking opportunities at many British clubs and Arts Council funded venues.
Pubs are the backbone of live music in Britain. Almost every British band of note started in the national pub circuit. CMEAS books and promotes gigs at some of the friendliest, busiest, best ale & food serving jewels of musical iniquity the Isles can offer

Started in 2004, CMEAS is partnering with several local school districts to provide interactive musical workshops with local schools. This program is set to be a significant part of our UK events.
In addition to pub, club, and workshop events, CMEAS has teamed up with a private record label based in Devon that does superb 24 track live recording at the Palladium Club. CMEAS offers a full show recording as part of the UK events.
Deadline for applications July 1st, 2007
If you are a band at home with a solid gig base and want to play abroad, there will probably be a bands abroad that want to play your gigs too. CMEAS can facilitate such international (or national) gig swaps.
Starting in 2005, CMEAS will be creating a video record of the tour so that bands have both a sound and visual record of their trip, and hopefully a work of art that they can use on return to their native countries.
Plans in the works include a recording and site seeing tour in Costa Rica, blues and roots festivals in Romania, a weekend trip to Rio de Janeiro, the International Film Festival in Prague, a tour of Dutch cities, a tour of French vineyard parties, and an island hopping tour of the US and UK Virgin Islands.

This is our flagship tour. We play at some of the friendliest music venues in Britain - whether they be pubs in the western highland isles of Scotland, a motorbike club in the mining valleys of Wales, a swank cocktail club in downtown Lancaster, a high school workshop with 120 students cheering the church rafters, a storming University gig replete with anatomy marker penmanship, an after hours in the smallest pub in Wiltshire, one of the Northwest's largest music venue, or a sweaty club in Brixton, we believe that any act selected for this tour will have the time of their lives! And will want to come back for more! See REVIEWS for feedback from the 2006 Oct. Tour. For an excellent slide show of the 2006 tour (with Big Baby Ernie, Kalvin Koolidge, and Laura Younger) you couldn't do much better than check out the Big Baby Ernie site (that's pretty good Austin!) or click <HERE> for our own interpretation (thanks Nathalie!)

Click Click here for movie clip of CMEAS 2005 UK Oct. Tour to see a MOVIE clip of this tour (taken in 2005 courtesy of TVMJ Productions).

The UK Oct. Tour 2007 finalists have been selected. The highest scoring acts from our review panel were Curly and the Rocket from Washington DC, and Steepwater Band from Chicago (by way of Indiana) who will join NYC funksters extraordinaire Banooba for this, our flagship tour of the British Isles. Banooba were invited to co-host this tour after their sensational performance at the CMEAS Costa Rican Tour 2007 in conjunction with previous shortlisted applicants for our 2005 Oct. tour, Gandhi, and the UK group the Convulsions.

Banooba
www.banoba.net

Curly & The Rocket
www.curlyandtherocket.com
Scenes from 2001-3
Scenes from 2004-5

Laura Younger Performs at Riff's in Swindon (voted Britain's Best Music Pub 2005-6)
The Bell in Bath - the afterhours was out of hand out of mind
Mr. Stephen Knight, landlord of the Bassett's Arms (the smallest bar in Wiltshire) with Laura and Big Baby Ernie's Manager, Austin
Back of the Minibus - to prove a couple of environmentally friendly points of information
Refuelling the Minibus at a local supermarket
Another Scottish Castle
Sunset in the English Lake District
The Last Supper: The Aspinall Arms, Mitton, Whalley, England. Best Lamb Henry in the Land!
2007 Tour Dates


11-Oct-07 Thu. Furness College Bar, Lancaster University

12-Oct-07 Fri. Aldersyde Hotel, Isle of Arran, Scotland

13-Oct-07 Sat. Golden Lion, Lancaster

14-Oct-07 Sun. Black Horse Hotel, Westgate, Otley

15-Oct-07 Mon. Piel Castle, Ulverston

16-Oct-07 Tue. Dickie Doodles, Kendal

18-Oct-07 Thu. Cartmel College, Lancaster University

19-Oct-07 Fri. Aspinall Arms, Mitton, Whalley

20-Oct-07 Sat. Platform, Morecambe

21-Oct-07 Sun. Coopers Arms, Pewsey

22-Oct-07 Mon.
The Bell, Bath

23-Oct-07 Tues.
Mr Wolf's, Bristol

24-Oct-07 Wed. Riffs, Swindon

25-Oct-07 Thu. Patriots MC, Crumlin, S. Wales

26-Oct-07 Fri. Palladium, Bideford

27-Oct-07 Sat. Buccaneer, Westward Ho

28-Oct-07 Sun.
The Wellington, Bristol

29-Oct-07 Mon.
Bon voyage soirée - back to Aspinall for "quiet" night

 

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