Ex-Jam members to launch first US tour
The group--featuring Jam bassist Bruce Foxton and drummer Rick Buckler, along with singer/guitarist Russell Hastings and guitarist/keyboardist Dave Moore--will kick off a 13-city run Jan. 24 in San Diego. The tour will run north up the West Coast into Canada before spreading out to other parts of the US, winding down mid-March in Dallas. Dates are below.
The quartet played a UK tour earlier this year, marking the 30th anniversary of The Jam's 1977 debut album, "In the City." The band went on to hit the top of the UK charts with their 1982 swan song, "The Gift," and also saw several singles hit No. 1 on the British charts, including "Town Called Malice" and "Beat Surrender," both from 1982.
"I had been away from the live scene for about twelve years prior to 2005," Buckler told Billboard.com earlier this year. "And at that point, I felt that I wanted to play live again, along with a longstanding desire to revisit the songs of the Jam." Buckler and Foxton recently announced that they were recording new material for a possible 2008 album release, including "fresh" versions of some of Foxton's early songs, according to a press statement.
Don't count on former Jam frontman Paul Weller joining the comeback effort, however. "Let me just nip that in the bud right now. That will never, ever happen," he told BBC Radio last year.
"Me and my children would have to be destitute and starving in the gutter before I'd even consider that, and I don't think that'll happen anyway," added the singer, who also went on to front The Style Council after departing his original band.
"It still means something to people and a lot of that's because we stopped at the right time, it didn't go on and become embarrassing."
January 2008
24 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues
25 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
26 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
29 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
30 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theatre
February 2008
1 - Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre
2 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
4 - Chicago, IL - The Abbey
5 - Pontiac, MI - Crofoot Ballroom
9 - New York, NY - Blender Theatre at Gramercy
11 - Alexandria, VA - Birchmere
13 - Atlanta, GA - Roxy Theatre
15 - Dallas, TX - Palladium Ballroom
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