No doubt about it, Europe felt like a wounded continent as we sped along the highways, watched karaoke on the ferries and played for our suppers on the last tour. However, there was plenty of elation too as the band just felt so damn good onstage night after night. Still it all feels like a voyage of discovery, and after 30 years that’s golden. Keep your eyes peeled as we may well be in your neighborhood soon.

Having said that, now is the time for recording and the first notes have been plucked or prodded in anger or joy for the next Pink Dots’ album which we guess will be there in late 2012.

2012 – FEAR NOT MY LOVLIES

LPDs plan a small tour which we hope will take in Italy, Switzerland and South Germany in April. Russia is also on the calendar for the Fall. For a fully fledged LPDs tour of the USA and Canada ,the target is Spring 2013. However, EK and The Silverman may well make an appearance as part of a package with the wonderful Orbit Service and Dead Voices on Air in Denver and perhaps a couple of other cities in May 2012. Continue reading December 2011 Newsletter →

August the 4th and it’s raining. This is hardly surprising as the summer of 2011 has been so wet and miserable it seems like this corner of Europe is being punished for it’s all-round bad attitude over the last few years. Nevertheless I want frozen orange juice and lazy deckchairs or, in fact, ANYTHING better than this.

Still, let’s get to the point….The Dots are revving up for more action in the Autumn.  The beans are spilled below…. Continue reading August 2011 Newsletter →

Thanks to all who turned up for our tour! We enjoyed it – especially the last two shows in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Strange to think that we’ve now visited Russia five times since the year 2000 when it would have been virtually impossible in the not so distant past.

Anyhow, time to look ahead and some special events are on the horizon. First is the Nijmegen Underground Festival at The Lux theatre on May 18. For this show The Dots will perform the psychedelic audio plays “Katrina” (as can be found on the ’30 Year Itch’ release) and a new work, ‘The Creature that tasted sound”. Also on the bill are long term Dots’ friends and favourites, The Use of Ashes and Beequeen. It really is worth traveling for.

On June 10, The Dots play at Queen Elizabeth Hall on The South Bank in London on the first day of The Meltdown Festival, curated by Ray Davies. On a spectacular night, the mighty Crazy World of Arthur Brown also appear. Continue reading May/June 2011 Newsletter →

The day after our last show of the USA tour and I’m sitting at the computer reflecting on what one hell of an adventure the whole thing was. (Note I updated this on 8 January).

Fittingly, we finished here in Portland where the reception is especially wild, even on a snowy Monday night with alarmists on the radio urging everyone to stay in. Thanks to those brave souls who chose differently.

Now we head for home after a vegetarian Thanksgiving in a couple of days. Time for a rest I guess, but it probably won’t work out that way.

Thanks for everybody’s patience regarding pre-orders. We’re ready to send everything except that darned DVD (Paris in the Fall) and those Crushed velvet bags which are on the way from India. Still, both are very much in the works now. Time for some hot chai… Continue reading Last 2010 Newsletter →