Etienne Gonna go to Heaven *
*and other choice establishments and festivals
It's 25 years since Foxbase Alpha was born and a similar length of time since the fledgling Saint Etienne took their first teetering steps into the live arena. The venue was Heaven in Villiers Arches, London and Bob and Pete, armed with DAT and smoke machine took to the stage, resplendent in polo neck sweaters and necklaces of candy, their synthesisers perched on ironing boards...
To celebrate this momentous occasion we are returning to Heaven (whipped into shape this time by Sarah Cracknell of course) on Wednesday the 5th of October to play a special anniversary Foxbase set (plus bonus beats hits).
Tickets go on sale - to Saint Etienne subscribers only - tomorrow morning at 9am. That's9.00 on Wednesday 4th May and tickets can be found here. As Etienne fans you have a48 hour head start to bag the best tickets before the rest go on sale to the general public on Friday at 9am.
We will be warming ourselves up (literally) with a show at Gagarin 205 in Athens, Greece on October 1st - tickets here - and will round the week out with our last ever UK performance of the full album at the Rockaway Beach Festival in Bognor Regis on Saturday 8th October - tickets here.
Come join us and we'll celebrate in style before putting Foxbase to bed - at least in the UK for another 25 years.
But before all this ...
Following sold out gigs in Glasgow (Art School on June 23rd) and Hebden Bridge (Trades on June 24th) we will be playing the Park Stage at Glastonbury on Sunday 26th Juneshortly after ELO finish their set on the Pyramid stage.
We also headline two festival stages this summer:
Indietrax in Ripley Derbyshire on July 30th - tickets here - and the Heavenly Stage at On BlackHeath, London on Sunday 11th September - tickets here.
All this, a new album in the works plus news of some special vinyl and Foxbase related releases soon.
Stay tuned!!
Love,
Bob, Pete and Sarah
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