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Ex-Verve Singer Richard Ashcroft Postpones North American Tour
11/02/2000 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen
(11/2/00, 4 p.m. ET) - An undisclosed illness has forced the postponement of the North American tour by former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft, which was slated to begin Saturday (November 4) in Chicago.
The tour, in support of his solo debut, Alone With Everybody, will instead kick off with a pair of shows in Chi-town on January 19-20, and wrap up in Vancouver on February 7. The 14-date trek will also include two-night stands in Toronto, New York City, and Los Angeles. In addition, a performance on the Late Show With David Letterman has been confirmed for the week of January 15.
The tour will be Ashcroft's first in North America since leaving the Verve in 1999.
Here are the complete tour dates (subject to change):
January 19-20 - Chicago, IL - Double Door
January 21 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrews
January 23-24 - Toronto, ONT - Opera House
January 27 - Boston, MA - Paradise
January 28-29 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
January 31 - Philadelphia PA - Theatre Of Living Arts
February 1 - Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club
February 3-4 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory
February 5 - San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's 365 Club
February 7 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore
Those wanting to get a glimpse of Ashcroft in the interim should check out his video for "C'mon People," available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on LAUNCH.com.
Other new video additions available on-demand on the site include Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like A Bird," Shelter's "Don't Walk Away," and Sevendust's Lajon Witherspoon's "Angel's Son," from the Strait Up tribute record to late Snot singer Lynn Strait.
-- Darren Davis, New York, and Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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