End of an era

As those who saw our recent concerts in Germany and Belgium will know, The Magnets are at a major career turning point. Those concerts were the last under our faithful promoter of recent years, Olli Tillmann (who we have to thank for earning us the largest part of our living in the post EMI years). and were our last independent headlining shows, as we change tack towards a more theatrical medium.

We've been moving in this direction in our shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the last two years, with the aim of building a show that can support residencies of several weeks at theatres across the world. No more will will we race helterskelter around Europe, driving 500km a day, seeing a new hotel room every night, and playing for 1000 people here, and 50 there. Touring like that has been a wonderful experience, seeing wonderful places big and small, and so many great people. However, we've told the same stories in the van about 100 times and it's time to move on.

Staying in one place will enable us to develop a better sounding and looking Magnets experience, in which you'll hear some old favourite tunes, and many fantastic new numbers, set in some surprising new ways. The show will debut in Europe (most likely Hamburg, Berlin and Amsterdam) in March to May, following rehearsals in February and a last three week outing for our straight pop show at the Riverside Studios here in London in Jan/Feb.

See you there!