Starts April 7th in Belgium....

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tue Apr 7 Antwerpen -- Mondial

wed Apr 8 Amsterdam --Paradiso kelder

thu Apr 9 Eindhoven -- Altstadt

fri Apr 10 Hamburg -- Beat Club

sat Apr 11 Munster -- Gleis 22

mon Apr 13 Gent -- Fatima

wed Apr 15 Munchen -- Sunny Red

thu Apr 16 Berlin -- Cortina Bob

fri Apr 17 Duesseldorf -- TV Eye Records Fest @ Pretty Vacant

sat Apr 18 Koln -- Sonic Ballroom

sun Apr 19 Rotterdam -- Tiki's
wed Apr 29 Eindhoven -- Effenaar  - Supporting Andre Williams

thu Apr 30 day: Venlo -- Queensday festival @ Perron 55

thu Apr 30 nite: Groningen -- Crowbar (free show)

fri May 1 Haarlem -- Patronaat  - Supporting Billy Childish & The M.B.E

sat May 2 Oberhausen -- Druckluft 

sun May 3 Kortrijk -- the Pit's  (best place in the world!!!)

On 18th January 2008 i put another of my little gigs on in Bury st edmunds and was looking forward to this one as it was the 3rd time i would be seeing Thee Vicars play and this time they were playing at my gig. I had seen them previously at the old maltings when they played with Popular Workshop for Planet Beet and decided to ask them to play for me. The energy and songs the band gave out were top notch and i was amazed that such a good band of 16 + 17 year olds were from Bury so i looked forward to the january gig very much.
I was stood with my friend Pato from the band Revenue, they were due to go .. Thee Vicars and Pato said to me 'how are we supposed to follow them, this band is shit hot!' i agreed and for some reason (maybe drink and marching powder) i went on to the stage while they were still playing and asked Mike, Vicars' lead singer, if the band wanted a mangager...Mike took 5 seconds and said 'yeah, alright then.'
I explained that i had no idea what i was doing but would do my best to get the band some gigs and got on the case straight away promoting them. After a meeting with the band and Reuben & Jaspers mum and dad i now had the green light to start us on our journey that has seen us play 60 odd gigs around the uk, holland, belgium and spain including winning the Indy award for best punk act accidentally (we did nothing to promote the fact we were in the competition but still won!) also King Khan asked Thee Vicars to open for King Khan & The Shrines on their uk tour in December.
Our 1st venture was to high wycombe for the release party of the bands 1st 7" on dire records 'let us play' followed by several more gigs before i got our 1st european gig in rotterdam at primitive festival, Dandy Dave the organiser asked us over after i sent him a cd of the mp3s that i had. After this we had an amazing breakthrough as we were asked to support THE MUMMIES + King Khan & the bbq show at Funtastic Dracula Carnival in Valencia in October 08. I can still hardly believe it happened but it did!
Since then we carried on gigging relentlessly around the country including gigs for Rhys Webb at the Cave Club, 3 gigs for Vice magazine and a gig for Artrocker.
In October we were also offered the Top class services of Robert at Kissnrun.com as our european booking agent (he has booked tours for Black Lips, King Khan, Jay Reatard and loads more) so as we ended 2008 playing at The Pits in Belgium, we met Robert although he never said who he was whilst i was talking to him!
The bands line up changed in september as Jasper left to go to university in Edinburgh,this was no surprise as it was common for us to be driving to a gig and Jasper would ask where we were playing or who we were playing with....he has so much natural talent on the drums but was completely oblivious as to what was going on but he is a lovely fella and i wish him all the best in saving the world or whatever he is studying for.
More of a shock was Reuben deciding to leave for personal reasons, a 16 year old lad that is thee most amazing guitarist i've ever seen, he is amazingly talented and once he gets his head round things im sure he will be back in some mod band strumming away and making my hairs stand up again, ive put 1st dibs on managing his next band ha ha
So now we have 4 lads all 100% commited to playing around the world in the shape of Mike, Marco, Will and new boy Chris i'm really looking forward to this year ahead.
2009 is looking pretty exciting at the moment with 20 gigs in europe planned for April and May and some new songs being recorded at the end of January, we have a PR company and im working on getting us a booking agent for the UK and USA, we also have a very supportive label with Paul,Pj and Diego at Dirty Water Records, its all set up to be a good un and maybe we will make some money this year ha ha !


Full 2008 gig list

26 Jun 2008,  - Primitive Festival      - The Waterfront - Rotterdam
04 Jul 2008,  - Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes - London
06 Jul 2008,  - Bardens Boudoir  - London
11 Jul 2008,  - New Cross Inn - London
16 Jul 2008,  - Madame Jo Jo's  - London
18 Jul 2008,  - Jamm - Brixton
20 Jul 2008,  - Dj set - Skate Park - Bury st edmunds
20 Jul 2008,  - The Bridge House w/ The Branded - Norwich
07 Aug 2008,  - Inn on the green - London
08 Aug 2008, - Branford Stores  - Norwich
09 Aug 2008,  - Fordham fest - Fordham
10 Aug 2008,  - Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen - Shoreditch
13 Aug 2008,  - The Gaff   - Bury st edmunds
14 Aug 2008,  - Old Blue Last (Vice Magazine party) - London
15 Aug 2008,  - Man On The Moon - Cambridge
21 Aug 2008,  - Dirty Water Club - w/ The Cynics - London
24 Aug 2008, - Allens Bar  - Gt Yarmouth
29 Aug 2008,  - Dirty Water Club - London
31 Aug 2008,  - Offset Festival - London
05 Sep 2008,  - B2  - Norwich
13 Sep 2008,  - 12 Bar Club - London
20 Sep 2008,  - Sexbeat - The Macbeth - London
01 Oct 2008,  - The Windmill - Brixton 
04 Oct 2008,  - Lees House! - Bury st edmunds
07 Oct 2008,  -  Blow up Metro - London
07 Oct 2008,  - The Buffalo Bar Artrocker club London
10 Oct 2008,  - Funtastic Dracula Carnival w/THE MUMMIES -  Valencia
31 Oct 2008,  - Dirty Water Club      - London
12 Nov 2008,  - Portland Arms - Cambridge
14 Nov 2008,  - The Marquee  - Norwich
15 Nov 2008,  - The Sheepwalk  - London
21 Nov 2008,  - Prince Albert - Brighton
22 Nov 2008,  - Railway Hotel  - Southend
24 Nov 2008,  - Old Blue Last w/ Jay Reatard - Vice Magazine - London
27 Nov 2008,  - The Amersham Arms  - London
29 Nov 2008,  - Magnet  - Liverpool
30 Nov 2008,  - The Tiger Lounge - Manchester
04 Dec 2008,  - The Faversham w/ The Dirtbombs  - Leeds
05 Dec 2008,  - Taylor John's House  - Coventry
06 Dec 2008,  - Camden Barfly - London
12 Dec 2008,  -  Dirty Water Club w/ King Khan & The Shrines  -  London
13 Dec 2008,  - 'The Pits' birthday party - Kortrijk - Belgium


Bands Thee Vicars have played with/same bill

Buzzcocks, The Mummies, King Khan & the bbq show, King Khan & The Shrines, Shitty Limits, The Riddles, The Scrags, The Coyotemen, The Despondents, The Fabulous Penetrators, King Salami & The Cumberland 3, Beast With A Gun, Slim Limbs,Fallen Leaves, Drookit Dogs, The Chapman Family, The Guillotines, Lord Auch, Kasms, Popular Workshop, Deadbeat Descendent, Manufactured Romance, The Branded, The Masonics, Untamed Youth, Palookaville, Theee Bat, The Madd, The Outsiders, Higher State, Los Peyotes, Len Price 3, Atomic Suplex, Armitage Shanks, Los Chicos, The Cynics, Wire, Gang Of Four, Kunk, Ten City Nation, Umbrella Assassins, Neville Staple, The Talks, Bad Manners, The Beat, Stupidity, The Woggles, Graham Day & The Gaolers, Hipbone Slim & The Kneetremblers, The Cannibals, The Phantom Keys, Muck and the mires, Los Imbasils, Young Knives, Fight Like Apes, Blood Red Shoes, The Maccabees, Future Of The Left, Thomas Tantrum, Violet Violet, Ipso Facto, Quick Brown Fox, The Dirtbombs, Johnny Throttle, Zombina & The Skeletones, Copper Pilot, MASSHYSTERI, LOS RETARDOS, Social Group, The Morlocks, Deathline, Pens, Jay Reatard, Hawkwind, Chas and Dave, Dr Feelgood, Long Bone Trio, Dub Cats, The Bluetones, Monroes,  The Freaks, Lot Lizards, Les Hulks

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http://www.dirtywaterrecords.co.uk/product/pre-order-thee-vicars-back-streets

After Thee Vicars played @ The old blue last for Vice magazine last week we were approached by a talent agent from MTV, she was a very nice lady and told us to get a video sorted as it would be put on the MTV network (if youve seen a Thee Vicars gig then you will know they are very 'active' on stage) even if it took a year to do she was interested, so......i have a video director and editor (responsible for our 1st ever vid on youtube shot @ The 100 club) we just need a bit of funding, not much as it would be filmed in our home town in bury st edmunds, and mainly its lighting we need as we have some locations worked out and plenty of fans for 'crowd shots'

anyone interested in helping us please get in touch we would make it worth your while somehow !!!!

lee@theevicars.co.uk

http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2008/08/lond...

Thee Vicars are 1st band on the main stage on Sunday 31st August....tickets still available!

Thee Vicars played at The Old Blue Last in Shoreditch on 14th August to a frenzied crowd for the august edition of Vice launch party. amongst the crowd were an MTV talent scout and a lady from 1965 Records, we were approached by both so watch this space!

read the interview by clicking the link below, Vice is a massive, glossy and free mag available all over the place in London and other places countrywide.

Vice magazine interview with Thee Vicars