Steve Ignorant

from the Frankfurt show, by Matthias Weigand -- www.cxc.info

Hello everyone.  While we're all snowed in here in the UK I just wanted to share a few things.  First of all we have a new show added to the North American tour, in Atlanta.

Thursday 24th March Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia

Also we are still looking for a singer to replace Beki, which is really difficult.  I can't believe that she's not able to do the rest of the tour with us, but that's life so we've got to move on and find someone new.  I really appreciate everyone passing the word around and making suggestions.  Best thing to do really is if you know someone who is interested get them to write to us at [email protected].  We don't want to be calling up strangers saying "someone on Facebook said you might be interested...".  You know, it's embarrassing and that.  So just tell whoever you know and if there is someone who is interested tell her to get in touch with us, but do it soon as we are going to have some auditions in the first week of January, because we haven't got much time now til the next set of dates.

Finally, I've been really disappointed to see that some of the promoters in North America have been trying to advertise the tour as CRASS.  This ain't Crass.  I'll say that again - THIS AIN'T CRASS.  I don't know why it's a problem for them, we had no problems like this in the UK or Europe, and I want everyone to know that this is just something the promoters are doing, it's not me, or Allison, or Dan our agent - we've all asked it to be advertised as "Steve Ignorant Presents The Last Supper (Crass Songs 1977-1984)" because that's what it is.  It's me, it's my final celebration, and that's all.  So if you hear anyone saying anything otherwise, please try to put them straight.  I always knew I'd get slated by some people for doing this, but I don't want to get slated for something that's not my doing.

Thanks for listening, I hope everyone has a great holiday, whatever you celebrate this time of year.  Once we dig ourselves out of the snow we'll be starting work rehearsing with our new singer, getting the set ready for the North American dates.  Lots of work to do but we're really looking forward to it.

Steve.

I would really appreciate anyone who can help us out by spreading the word on this. Please re-post, link, whatever.

Singer urgently needed.  We are looking for a female singer to join The Last Supper tour.  Unfortunately Beki has decided that she cannot continue to tour with us due to family commitments.  We are absolutely gutted, but determined not to let this set-back get us down.  So we are currently seeking a strong female vocalist who is capable of joining our little family, and of representing the Crass material with the heart and spirt it deserves (particularly the material from Penis Envy).  She must be available for an immediate audition, plus rehearsals in London or Peterborough in January and February, and then for our USA/Canadian tour (3 weeks in March), Australia/NZ tour (3-4 weeks in April & May), possibly Japan or a few others during the summer, and our finale show in London late 2011.  Obviously a clean passport/record will be required for visas etc.   Interested parties should please submit the following to [email protected]: (1) one mp3 track featuring your vocals (2) short bio (3) photo (4) name, address, contact email & phone numbers (5) any links to extra music, info etc that you'd like us to consider.

Thanks

Steve

Testing 1-2-3. America, are you receiving?

Well after an enormous amount of planning and work by the folks behind the scenes, I am really pleased to announce that we will be taking The Last Supper tour to the USA and Canada next year.

2011
Thursday MARCH 10 New York, NY @ Santo's Party House
Friday MARCH 11 Montreal, QC @ Le National
Saturday MARCH 12 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
Sunday MARCH 13 Chicago, IL @ Logan Square Auditorium
Wednesday MARCH 16 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
Thursday MARCH 17 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
Friday MARCH 18 Pomona, CA @ Fox Theater
Tuesday March 22 Austin, TX @ Emo's
Friday March 25 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar

Me and the band are really looking forward to this.  Being able to the play the Crass songs in places where Crass was never able to go will be an honour, and a huge amount of fun as well.  Hope to see some of you there.

Cheers

Steve