River of Dreams UK Tour - GENERAL THREAD

[roger]

The River of Dreams Tour

Hi everyone,

As you may have seen, Bedlam Management have forwarded details of a number of UK events this morning. As this is clearly a major tour, I thought it might be helpful to start a thread for general discussion of the tour as a whole. For discussion about individual events, please go to the appropriate thread.

Seventeen events are currently scheduled. These have only been confirmed "this week"... and it is still only Tuesday!

Bedlam commented that this tour will take place "around the release of the new album" and they hope that tickets will be on sale early next week in all cases.

Here is an overview of the entire tour for easy reference:

Sun 19 Oct  Aberdeen Music Hall
Mon 20 Oct  Dunfermline Carnegie Hall
Wed 29 Oct  Barrow Forum Theatre
Thu 30 Oct  Newcastle City Hall
Sun  2 Nov  Lichfield Garrick Theatre
Tue  4 Nov  Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Wed  5 Nov  Northampton Derngate
Wed 12 Nov  Llandudno Venue Cymru (North Wales Theatre)
Thu 13 Nov  Birmingham Town Hall 
Mon 17 Nov  Manchester Bridgewater Hall 
Wed 19 Nov  Cardiff St David's Hall
Thu 20 Nov  Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre
Tue 25 Nov  Southend Cliffs Pavilion 
Wed 26 Nov  Cheltenham Town Hall 
Fri 28 Nov  Leamington Royal Spa Pavillion 
Sun 30 Nov  Swansea Grand Theatre

Details will be added to the Schedules board shortly.

Roger

[grant]

WOW Roger!!

That's a lot to take in. It might be worth mentioning also that Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent is the day before Aberdeen on 18th October! Guess that means Hayley will be heading for the airport after Stoke like last time.

I'm certainly up for a few of these.

First second thoughts are

Durham
Newcastle
Lichfield
Liverpool
Northampton
Birmingham
Manchester
Cardiff
Cheltenham
Leamington Spa
Swansea

Don't imagine I'll do all, but those are manageable - just depend how far finances will stretch.

I'm guessing that, after that lot, Hayley will head home - perhaps to combine some local promotion for her new album with a well earned rest with her family.

Gosh!! I'm getting very excited!!

Best wishes
Grant

[Nordly]

The end of the year was looking very free of concerts, wasn't it? Well, it certainly isn't anymore! I have a feeling that there will be a few December concerts this year though as well!

[Stephany]

Hello Roger,

Thank you very much for all the information. As Grant pointed out, that's a lot to take in! It's nice to see a UK Tour around this part of England. How I wish she had done the same last year

Stephany

[grant]

Jun 24, 2008 13:07:23 GMT Stephany said:

Hello Roger,

Thank you very much for all the information. As Grant pointed out, that's a lot to take in! It's nice to see a UK Tour around this part of England. How I wish she had done the same last year

Stephany

Hi Stephany

How are you? Well and happy I hope

Are you going to be able to make it over for any of these concerts? I do hope so - I miss you already!

Lots of love
Grant

[Mark]

Hi Roger & everyone

Wow -thats fantastic news Roger. Like you Grant, I can see a good few venues that are very well placed for me - wheres my diary ??

Thanks for the heads up.

Best wishes
mark

[Stephany]

Hello Grant,

Thank you for your kind words - I am indeed well & happy and I hope you are too! To answer your question, as long as I don't have my new school diary I have no idea if I can make it to one of those concerts. My last year at University is extremely important so I cannot take the risk to miss a class or, for example, a job interview opportunity.

Now I wonder if we'll manage to send at least one HWI representant at each concert of this new UK tour?

Love xxx
Stephany

[Dave]

Jun 24, 2008 12:43:48 GMT @roger said:

Bedlam commented that this tour will take place "around the release of the new album
Roger

Hi Roger,

Thanks for the info and I guess this fits in perfectly with and confirms the approximate UK release date of the next album (Music Week said at the beginning of November).

Cheers, Dave

[Richard]

Thanks for the information, Roger!

I'm planning to go to Northampton and Southend.

Richard

[grant]

Hi Stephany

Yes, thank you I am fine and looking forward to attending as many as possible of these concerts - I've spent the last hour looking at possible accommodations for those that I will have to stay overnight. Nothing like being prepared!

To try to answer your question. The only ones that may be a problem are Barrow (that's way up on the west coast but nice that they're getting a concert) and possibly Llandudno (I wanted to do this one but Birmingham the day after will be much easier).

I think our south coast members will take care of Bournemouth and I suspect Andrew will take care of Scotland.

Job done!!

Lots of Love
Grant

[drew]

Thank you Roger.

I am glad to see that the man at Bedlam kept his word with some interesting new venues as promised.

[Dean McCarten]

I am looking forward to Barrow as I live about 20 minute away, so I hope it doesn't get cancelled, So I'll get a Bridgewater Hall ticket as well (if I may get to see Hayley 2 times in 2 months)

So All being well i will represent HWI @ Barrow and seee Hayley Live for 1st Time and hopefully meet some of the other members

[Joe]

Good to see Hayley will visit some new cities in the Autumn!

This is great news for all of you in the UK, and great for us who watch from afar.

[I-H-F]

What?... No concerts in Northern Ireland? It is, technically, in the UK.

[roger]

Good point, Irish-Hayley-Fan. It is no consolation but there are none in London either and I believe that is also in the UK.

Roger