This time last year we were gearing up for a Drowned in Sound ROCKtober tour with some punkrag upstarts called Miss Black America. Now, they're all growned up and fully-fledged rock bitches (in the nicest, most cynically sweet possible way!) and they have a debut album titled 'God Bless Miss Black America' out on Monday (Sep 16th 2002) featuring all the best bits from their live sets, all the past singles and a few new tracks. It's all going to be new to most people.

If you aint heard them yet, they're angry (but not loud, loud) young men, brought up in a time of Margret Thatcher, with punk properly dead by the time they started buying melody driven, soul-filled, rock records. Riding on the crest of a new wave of critically concious, fresh rock; they're well on the way of infiltrating their world of books, movies and cult tv upon the rest of us. They sound special. That's everything you needed to know, ever. We're nuts about them for a reason y'know.

SEPTEMBER
Weds 11th Reading - Fez Club (with Serafin)
Sat 14th Cardiff Barfly - (with The Parkinsons)
Weds 18th Birmingham Jug Of Ale
Thurs 19th Cheltenham - Boom Bar
Fri 20th Bournemouth - Mr Smiths (with Tex La Homa)
Thurs 26th Chelmsford - Army & Navy
Fri 27th London - The Garage (with The Catheters)
Sat 28th Liverpool - The Masque
Sun 29th Peterborough - The Metropolis Lounge
Mon 30th Leeds - The Cockpit

OCTOBER
Tues 1st London - Water Rats (with Antihero and the Dawn Parade)
Thurs 3rd Coventry - Coliseum
Sat 5th Cambridge - Boat Race
Mon 7th Manchester - Night & Day
Weds 9th Colchester - Arts Centre
Thurs 10th Sheffield - University (with Tetra Splendour)
Sat 12th Harlow - The Square
Mon 14th Sheffield - Barfly
Tues 15th Glasgow - Barfly
Weds 16th Aberdeen - Lemon Tree
Thurs 17th Dundee - Westport Bar
Fri 18th Leicester - Sumo
Sat 19th London - Underworld (with Loaded - ex-Gn'r & Little Hell)
Sun 20th Norwich - Arts Centre
Mon 21st Hull - University (with Tetra Splendour)
Weds 23rd Swansea - University SU
Thurs 24th Falmouth - The Pirate
Sat 26th Tunbridge wells - The Forum
Sun 27th Brighton - Freebutt
Tues 29th Winchester - Railway Inn
Weds 30th Liverpool - Uni

NOVEMBER
Fri 1st Northampton - Soundhaus

Do they ever rest?