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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 15th, 2008
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 and will run from Wed. Oct. 1st through Sun. Oct. 12th. 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 Camden Town, 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 (at time of posting Oct. Tour 2007 had just ended - reviews for that pending). 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 featured Curly and the Rocket from Washington DC and NYC funksters extraordinaire Banooba.

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!
2008 Tour Dates


01-Oct-08 Wed. Cuban Bar, Camden Town (tbc)

02-Oct-08 Thu. Riffs, Swindon

03-Oct-08 Fri. Palladium, Bideford

04-Oct-08 Sat. Patriots MC, Crumlin, Wales

05-Oct-08 Sun. tba

06-Oct-08 Mon. Bell, Bath

07-Oct-08 Tue. Sun Inn, Lancaster

08-Oct-08 Wed. Blackpool workshop

09-Oct-08 Thu. Glasgow workshop / Aldersyde Hotel, Isle of Arran

10-Oct-08 Fri. Duke Of Edinburgh, Barrow-in-Furness

11-Oct-08 Sat. Cartmel College, Lancaster University

12-Oct-08 Sun. One Planet Festival, Lancaster

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