Easy-listening veteran Lionel Richie [ tickets ] has announced a string of U.K. dates for April and May: Belfast's Odyssey Arena (4/21), Newcastle's Telewest Arena (4/29), Glasgow's SECC (5/30), Manchester's MEN Arena (5/4) and London's Wembley Arena (5/7-8). Tickets are now on sale.

Mogwai [ tickets ] has announced the first of its U.K. appearances for 2001. The hard rock group is to play at the Rothesay Pavillion on the Scottish Isle of Bute on April 14 and London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on April 19. Tickets are now on sale.

Ian Dury's former band the Blockheads will play a gig at the Meanfiddler in London on March 23. Tickets are now on sale.

Neil Finn [ tickets ] is scheduled to play two shows at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on May 3 and 4. Tickets are now on sale.

Former American Music Club frontman Mark Eitzel will perform at the Union Chapel in London on March 1. Tickets are now on sale.

Tickets for Willie Nelson [ tickets ]'s show at London's Royal Albert Hall on Nov. 28, which are £29.50, go on sale on Wednesday (2/21).

Femi Amkulapo-Kuti has cancelled his upcoming U.K. tour due to illness. Shows included performances at London's Jazz Cafe from April 9-12. Ticket-holders can get a refund from the point of purchase.

Dee Dee Ramone's March 6 show at the Garage in London has now been rescheduled to March 16.

David Gray [ tickets ] has rescheduled his European tour following a family illness. The singer will now visit the following venues: Paris' Bataclan (6/25), Koln's E Werk (6/26), Munich's Muffathalle (6/27), Stuttgart's SW3R (7/2), Hamburg's Gross Freiheit (7/3), Berlin's Columbia Halle (7/4).

Mod-rocker Paul Weller has postponed more dates on his European tour due to a broken thumb. Shows in the German cities of Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Bochum, Darmstadt and Munich are all to be rescheduled. The following rescheduled Irish dates were announced on Monday (2/19): Dublin (3/19-21), Belfast (3/22, 23) and Limerick (3/25).

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