Amy Allison shows in UK/Ireland this/next week

[lhnbt]

Amy Allison (who wrote The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter) will be at the following venues:

January 31st - Dublin Whelans opening for Patty Griffin
February 1st - The Spitz, London (with Camera Obscura)
February 2nd - ABC2, Glasgow (with Lucky Luke)
February 7th - Dingwalls, London opening for Gretchen Peters

Jon Graboff will be playing guitar with her. These shows are to promote her new album, "Everything And Nothing Too" - out January 30th on Spit & Polish Records.

Mp3's at www.amyallisonmusic.com and www.shoeshine.co.uk

[johnfoyle]

Amy did a great show here in Dublin tonight. On for about half an hour , she and Jon did songs from all her albums. Her cheerful delivery and between song banter made for a very engaging show. After she introduced 'Whiskey...' as being a song we might know from Laura's cover I could see head's all around the place turning to each other in recognition of that aspect of the song. A little later some gobshite shouted up ' Amy - are we ever going to have sex again?' . After some perplexed looks Jon politely said that the shouter was thinking of Amy Rigby and the song with that title on one of her albums. Amy smiled and told the man a emphatic 'No!'. After doing her most excellent cover of Morrisey's Everyday Is Like Sunday( I sang along with every word!) , she finished with her Dad's (Mose Allison) song Was.

Later , after a cracking show by Patty Griffin , I had a brief chat with Amy and Jon. She was appreciative of the support etc. I bought copies of her albums from her for a fraction of the cost in the shops here. Jon remembered a conversation I had with him in Bristol, England after a show by Laura in Dec. '02. He especially remembered , with a shake of his head, the tiny, basement venue . I asked him if there were any plans for recording with Laura and he said something about how he would be delighted to be part of any . The tiny Whelans venue was still heaving with people when I left , happy after a great evening.