Bobby’s updated tour includes just a few open dates in November and December for potential shows in select American cities. The open dates are listed here - if you are local to any of the available cities and know of a potential venue for a talented acoustic musician, email us at admin.thenetwork@gmail.com, and we’ll be sure to pass the information along to Phil!

Thanks to our affiliates at the Land of Dreamers :-)

Hello from Denver.

Sorry I have not kept you up to speed, its just that we have moved so far so fast. As Rolling Stones, Mick ‘n’ Keef put it so eloquently on Exile On Main Street, “We’ve gone ten thousand miles and been in fifteen states”. Well not quite, but it feels like that…

Bobby Long and I have had a great time since we arrived in the USA on the 25th July. New York was huge fun, meeting up with lots of our old friends and meeting a lot of industry people. I love the energy that NYC gives me. How I don’t fall asleep mid sentence all the time I am there I will never know. However my friend and mentor Ms Vicki Wickham assures me that in her estimation “no one ever died from lack of sleep” and she should know! I seem to survive on about two hours at a time with a quick “rock snooze” mid afternoon! Bobby sleeps like a baby unless he is on a plane, where he would agree I am usually out cold by the time the thing is half way down the run way…

Philadelphia is a place I have always wanted to go to. We had the luxury of being driven there by friends Evie and Sarah (Sarah also designed Bobby’s T. shirts). We arrived to a lovely hot early evening after a car journey punctuated by fantastic old freeway signs offering a “GUN SHOW” and Bobby doing phone interviews for local and national press, or “media outlets” as they call it in LA.

After a quick photo session with Brett Martelli who is our smudger of choice on the east coast, Bobby took the stage at the North Star Bar to a sweaty and riotous welcome. An hour and fifteen minutes later Bobby was soaked to the skin and smiling uncontrollably. 40 minutes later still, we were both tucking into a pair of Philadelphia Cheese Steaks!

Next day we flew to Dallas to play two shows at Poor David’s Pub. Both were sold out and have proved very popular on youtube. I loved it in Dallas, its another place I had always wanted to go to. It was not at all what I had expected. I know it sounds silly, but I have these images in my head of what places around the world will look like. The trouble is that my minds image is generally formed by old 78 records, old films which may or may not involve cowboys and of course by old books. I arrived expecting wood fronted buildings only to find one of the most impressive sky lines any where in the world. It looked to me like the rich peoples of Dallas had hired architects on the basis that they could build a more visually stimulating structure than all the others already in place. It is what I am sure my Americans cousins would describe as “auwsssome”, and I agree. A quick shout out here if I may to Lizzy, Lacey, Amy, Gina, David Card and co and all the other lovely people who helped Bobby and I get through the marathon of late nights and endless taxies.

Austin was hot and sticky, just the way we Brits like it. This was to be the last ever show at Room 710, which is a shame, because it suited Bobby’s needs perfectly and we would love to play there again. Almost sold out, but not quite Bobby had the whole place singing along and sweating as one by the end of his first number. They served Mexican beers in tins there, with a slice of lime delicately placed under the opened ring pull. Nice touch.

However hot you have ever been, and no matter how tough you think you are, or how thick your olive skin, nothing could prepare you for the 118 degree, still, dry, all consuming heat of Phoenix. Especially if you cant get a hire car with out walking three blocks through cacti and rattle snake desert to the nearest Chase Bank! Knowing that the press would be waiting for him in LA, I asked our hosts to drive us to the nearest guitar shop as soon as we got out of the airport. Ten minutes later Bobby was the very proud owner of his first Gibson J200, a true instrument amongst guitars. Gibson have been kind in lending Bobby guitars for the last 6 months, but as recording and touring kick off for him big time, its better he has his very own one to fall in love with.

Bobby played at Mamma Java’s Coffee House in Phoenix. I booked him this show tiny intimate gig because I know how much he has always wanted to play a coffee house like the folk artists of the 40’s 50’s and 60’s that he grew up with. Phoenix felt like a day off for us, it was such a laid back time. This simplicity and laidbackness was only possible because we stayed with some friends of my Dads. Thanks Kay and Joel!

Next up we are back in my new home town of LA. I love it there. Its a place where people from around the world come to do business by the pool. Except if they get any work done, they rarely see any pools as they are too busy meeting and a greeting and shaken’ and a faken’. I avoided all that and steered Bobby towards the ABC studios for the 7news Red Carpet interview and live session. We met Sharon Weisz Bobby’s genius and extremely hard working US press agent in the car park. Sharon was all smiles and humour as she whisked us into the studio to meet her old friend George Pennacchio who was to interview Bobby. You can see the clip here http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/hollywood_wrap&id=6950508

LA is always the place Bobby and I get to hang out with old friends and meet new friends. Both Hotel Café shows were sold out and we turned up each night to a line of people waiting to get in that stretched round the block. Bobby got photographed for the first time leaving the Sunset Marquis Hotel and again coming out of the Chateau Marmont Hotel. Its strange for us when this happens. We expect it at the shows and in situations where Bobby and I are working, but it is odd when your walking down the street looking for the next boozer…

San Francisco is a lovely old town. It feels a bit like the back streets of Chelsea in London to me in some places. Very pretty with a turn of the century feel and some great vintage clothes shops. The day after the Elbow Room gig in San Francisco was our first day off since the 25th July. I settled down to my emails and phones while Bobby and Penny (our friendly personal travel agent and some time tour manager) went out shopping and looking around. We all met up again that evening and headed out for what Bobby and I call “proper food” which is really more about eating at a table with a table cloth and not out of a bag or a plastic triangle box in a plane, a train or a car. Then several liveners and light ales in Jack Kerouac very own Vesuvio before getting to bed very late once again.

The famed stomping ground of Elliot Smith and Kurt Cobain, Portland has a lot of historical nourishment to offer the touring musician with a free afternoon. One of the first people we ran into was our favourite west cost photographer Lisa Serrano who was in town to catch Bobby’s gig and capture a little bit more 35 millimetre magic for us. Bobby had a guided tour of Elliot Smith’s hang outs and places with Trace our new friend who owns the Voodoo Doughnut shop that is chiselled into the side of the venue Bobby played at that night.

Our party was knackered by this stage in the game, so we all sloped off to our beds early and tried not to think about the train journey to Seattle that awaited us at 6.30 the next morning!

The gig in Seattle was one of the best for my dough. Lots of people braved the rain on that dreariest of Monday nights. The venue El Corazon is your classic local live music dive, just as it should be. Friendly staff and door people who give off a sense of humour rather than of a sense of dread. We all loved it and Bobby played a blinder.

Another 6.30am start for the train to Vancouver ended with our arrival at about 1.30pm. We all lined up at customs and it seemed fine. As Bobby and I went through to the sharp end however, we soon realised we were not going to get in to the country. With total professionalism and the utmost politeness we were graciously told that we did not have what it takes and asked if we would not rather leave on the next train for Seattle. This is the sort of thing every artists manager dreads. “Is this my fault”, “oh fuck” etc etc etc.

Happily for me the nice Mr customs man told us that in his opinion we were not to blame and that we would, with added paper work from the relevant venues, have no problem coming back later on in the year.

Huge apologies to every one who bought presale tickets for Vancouver, I have re scheduled the show for the 7th September after Bobby plays Montreal on the 5th and Toronto on the 6th. All Vancouver tickets for the cancelled gig will be good for the new one in September. Donc, tres, tres bon!

What was there to do but get back on the train and enjoy the rather beautiful views on the way back to Seattle. We drank wine as well.

And so here we all are in Denver staying in the glorious prairie surroundings of a private cattle ranch availing our selves of every imaginable facility that such a place can offer. I saw a chipmunk this morning in the garden and rode horses with Bobby yesterday. The two shows that Bobby has played at the High Dive in Denver and at the Loft in Colorado Springs could not have gone better. Both sold out. Both attended by really useful industry people who want to help out and become further involved. But more than any thing these few days of normality have given Bobby and I a chance to recharge and get ready for the next leg of this Dangerous Summer Tour.

We will need every hour of sleep we have clawed back while we have been home on the range. Tomorrow we fly to St Louis. (home of my hero Chuck Berry), we will be met by a person who has booked Mr Long for a private party (in a park!). Straight after the party we will go and sound check at the Firebird Club ready for the show tomorrow night. The minute Bobby comes off stage we will be driven through the night to Memphis where Bobby will record an interview and a live session for Good Morning Memphis at 7.30am. After that we have more press before a quick look round Sun Studios and then back in the motor and off we go to our friends in Nashville, for a kip and some home cooked southern delicacies. How very charming.

TTFN.

Phil
Elizabeth, Denver, Colorado.
Check Bobby Long out now at www.myspace.com/musicbobbylong

The word from London:

27th September, 2009
YONO
37 Rue Vieille du Temple,
75004 Paris, France

http://www.myspace.com/yonoparis

29th September, 2009
Cord Club
Sonnenstr. 18
80336 Munich

http://www.cord.tv

Tour dates for the second leg of the Dangerous Summer Tour of the USA are well on the way to completion. Says manager Phil Taylor:

“We are just waiting on Madrid in Spain and maybe Rome in Italy and then that will be all we have time for this time round. I would like to get there for a proper tour in late January before Bobby heads over to Australia. But we will see, we want to do SXSW in Austin in March and maybe a handfull of other US dates around that time too.”

Fans that were not able to attend the New York, Los Angeles and Nashville shows during Bobby’s first U.S. mini tour will be pleased to find that the bluesy Brit and his team are expanding his tour to include locations less played; Phil continues:

“I’m booking shows in places where Bobby will not have played before as well as in NYC and LA and so on. We are looking at the Carolinas, the Dakotas, and a few out of the way places. Bobby and I love America and want to try to see a little of it’s beauty and it’s amazing history as we tour.”

You can find a full list of Bobby’s upcoming tour dates and venue information on our tour page, here!

Hello.

Bobby and I have noticed that there are now several face book pages dedicated to Bobby Long and his music. We also noticed that none of them had any up to date info about Bobby’s upcoming Dangerous Summer Tour dates in the USA and Europe.

We decided to set up the only official Bobby Long Facebook page our selves which both Bobby himself and I have access to and will be able to update during the tour with photos and blogs that are not available any where else. We will also both be adding and contributing messages and answers to messages each day.

We will keep the tunes coming and going on the myspace page and that page will also have the definitive list of tour dates and ticket info, so please keep your eye on that as well as tour dates will not be uploaded to the facebook page.

Please join Bobby Long now (click here)!

All the very best, we both look forward to seeing some of you next week in the USA!

Keep checking his MySpace page for updated tour information and songs, and his Facebook for Dangerous Summer Fun! And of course, updated tour information can also be found on “The Tour” page of Bobby Long Online.

This past week, Bobby played The Serpentine Sessions at London’s Hyde Park.

Phil Taylor advises:

“Hyde Park is the the largest park in London and often hosts large scale concerts and festivals. Bobby played a few days after Neil Young and Springsteen and a few days before Blur and Basement Jaxx at the Wireless Festival. All these events were put on at the same site using the same infrastructure of stages and back stage areas.”

Phil goes on to say that he and Bobby will be bouncing from event to event, trying to see as many friends as possible before departing London for Bobby’s U.S. Dangerous Summer Tour; though Bobby will be returning briefly to London in October for album work, both he and Phil will be in America on through next summer. He also lets us in on a little secret:

“In the mean time we are both gearing up for the London show at The Garage on the 17th. There are only 17 tickets left as I write this, so we are excited to get there and see lots more old and new friends. On the 18th Bobby plays a private party for a large group of Germen people who are flying to London for a private audience. There is a very strong rumour that Bobby will be doing a small farewell show with friends at the Albany at some point over next week end as well. Check the myspace on Saturday night after the Garage show to find out more.”

The word from London:

On Aug 21st Atlanta GA Andrews Upstairs ALL AGES $12 adv. and $15 Day of show
56 East Andrews Dr.
Atlanta GA 30305

http://www.eastandrews.com/main.php?page=home

Advanced tickets will be located at www.ticketalternative.com
$12 adv. and $15 Day of

4th November, Tuscaloosa, AL $$$ TBC
Rhythm and Brews
2308 4th Street
Tuscaloosa, AL 35405

http://www.rhythmnbrews.com/

You can find a full list of Bobby’s upcoming tour dates and venue information on our tour page, here!

Phil Taylor gives us the latest:

I thought that you may like to know that we have just announced 3 new European shows, as well as the rout for the rest of the Dangerous Summer US tour dates that end on the 19 December in NYC. Promoters are getting back to me rapidly and I expect to have a lot more US tour dates announced shortly. I hope to have a few more Spanish, Italian and French dates booked very soon as well.

Tickets for the US dates already announced are selling briskly now, we expect many shows to be sold out well before Bobby Long turns up to play them. Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Cambridge only have a handful of tickets left available at this time.

Bobby and I would like to thank people for making this even more amazing for us buy purchasing their tickets so early. It only adds to our excitement and keenness to get back to America to play for, and hang out with, you all.

The newly announced European dates include the Ringcon 2009 event in Bonn, Germany on October 2nd, and also include:

SALAMANDRA SALA 22ND September €12
Avinguda Carrilet 301
08907 L’Hospitalet De Llobregat,
Barcelona, Spain
+34 933 370 602
www.salamandra.cat;

LOGO. 30 September €12
Grindelallee 5,
20146 Hamburg
Germany
Tel 040 410 56 58
www.logohamburg.de

The anticipated schedule for the remainder of the fall tour dates is as follows:

OCTOBER 2009
23rd NYC ARRIVE NYC NO GIG
24th NYC
25th NYC ARLENES GROCERY BOOKED with Flipron
26th
27th LA HOTEL CAFE BOOKED with Flipron
28th LA HOTEL CAFE BOOKED with Flipron
29th SAN DIEGO UCSD THE LOFT with Flipron
30th
31st MEMPHIS with Flipron Neil’s Music Room, Memphis

NOVEMBER 2009
1st NASHVILLE with Flipron
2nd NASHVILLE 3RD & LINDSEY BOOKED with Flipron
3rd
4th TUSCALOOSA ALABAMA
5th ATLANTA GA.
6th TALLAHASSEE FL.
7th TAMPA FL
8th
9th RICHMOND VA.
10th WASHINGTON DC
11th PITTSBURGH PA.
12th COLUMBUS OHIO
13th CHICARGO
14th MINNEAPOLIS MA.
15th KANSAS CITY
16th DENVER
17th
18th SALT LAKE CITY
19th BOISE IDAHO
20th SEATTLE
21st VANCOUVER
22nd
23rd PORTLAND
24th CITY TBC
25th
26th RENO
27th SAN FRANCISCO
28th LA
29th LA ORANGE COUNTY
30th LA

DECEMBER 2009
1st
2nd SAN DIEGO
3rd CITY TBC
4th LAS VEGAS
5th PHOENIX
6th
7th ALBUQUERQUE
8th DALLAS
9th AUSTIN
10th
11th HOUSTON
12th NEW ORLEANS
13th CITY TBC
14th CITY TBC
15th CITY TBC
16th NYC
17th NYC
18th NYC

To borrow a word from our friends in London, it’s madness! Look for more additions and venue information to be announced on Bobby’s MySpace page. We are sure there will be more to come!

“We are now about a third of the way through booking the Fall leg of the Dangerous Summer Tour. There are also now dates about to be added in France, Italy and Germany where Bobby will be playing on the 1st and 2nd of October before returning to America on the 20th of October. The fall dates will continue up until the 19th December in the USA.”

Looks as if the fans will have many more live shows to look forward to!

Photo credit to Martelli Photography

Phil keeps us updated on the latest:

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The newly completed list of Bobby Long’s Dangerous Summer Tour dates
are now up with ticket links on the mysp over at
www.myspace.com/musicbobbylong

Quite a few of the venues have amended their door policy for us so that
younger people can now get in. So if you are under 21 and were worried
that you were not going to be able to get tickets please do check the mysp as
there are quite a lot of changes. There are also a few new dates
including the 12th September ALL AGES gig at The Bitter End in NYC.

Bobby Long merchandise is going up on the mysp in the next few days as
well, so please keep checking if you are interested in that. There will be
100 limited edition artist prints of the Dangerous summer tour poster
signed and numbered by Bobby available as well as two different T’s, Tote
Bags, Guitar picks etc.

Bobby is in talks now with a prominent music producer in London and has plans to begin recording album tracks during October 2009, before coming back to America for the fall leg of his US tour. Some of these new dates are also up on myspace. Many more will be added soon.

Bobby and I are really looking forward to being back amongst you all in the
promised land!

Get ready because its not long now!

Thanks to our fabulous Brit boys for keeping us updated – we’ll see you there!

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Up All Night Music is very proud to announce a public after show party on the 1st August in Dallas. The party starts at midnight, and will feature live performances by Bobby Long, Marcus Foster and Sam Bradley. This will be the only live music show featuring each of these artists together this summer, other than Twicon. There are only 400 tickets available, so this will also be a very intimate show. Bobby Sam and Marcus will be available for a short meet and greet session during the night.

This show is open to any one over the age of 18.

1st August $20 18+ 12 Midnight – 4am
Bobby Long, Sam Bradley. Marcus Foster. Live.
AFTERSHOW PARTY
Poor Davids Pub
1313 SOUTH LAMAR ST., Dallas, Texas 75215
http://www.poordavidspub.com/