1998

19/01/98 : The POINT, Oxford, England
Set-list included The First Big Weekend / The First Time You're Unfaithful / Bruce Willis / Paul Raymond

22/01/98 : The ASTORIA, London, England
Set-list : Soaps / One Day, After School / Blood / The First Time You're Unfaithful / My Favourite Muse
NME Brats show, radio broadcast.

15/02/98 : The LIQUID ROOM, Edinburgh, Scotland [supporting Mogwai]

10/03/98 : JOHN PEEL session, BBC Radio 1
Set-list : Packs Of Three / Piglet / The Night Before The Funeral / Blood
First broadcast date. Recorded ???

26/03/98 : UNIVERSITY OF LONDON UNION, London, England
Set-list : Islands / Soaps / Packs Of Three / New Birds / Blood / Girls Of Summer / Here We Go / The Night Before The Funeral / Phone Me Tonight / Piglet / Afterwards / First Time You're Unfaithful / My Favourite Muse
First performances of Islands, New Birds, the new single Here We Go, Piglet and Afterwards. Adele's first gig with the band.

16/04/98 : QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Set-list : Islands / Soaps / Packs Of Three /New Birds / Here We Go / Phone Me Tonight / Piglet / I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night // The First Big Weekend.
BBC Radio 1 - Mary-Anne Hobbs Breezeblock tour, with support from Campag Velocet and David Holmes.

17/04/98 : The MEAN FIDDLER, Dublin, Ireland
Set-list : New Birds / Here We Go / Phone Me Tonight / Soaps / Packs Of Three / I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night / Blood / Girls Of Summer / Islands / Piglet / The First Time You're Unfaithful / Deeper

Start of UK Philophobia tour
23/04/98 : FLAPPER & FIRKIN, Birmingham, England
24/04/98 : The ALLEYCAT, Reading, England
25/04/98 : The FORUM, Tunbridge Wells, England
26/04/98 : The ARTS CENTRE, Colchester, England
28/04/98 : The ROADHOUSE, Manchester, England
29/04/98 : The ADELPHI, Preston, England
30/04/98 : The BOARDWALK, Sheffield, England
01/05/98 : JOSEPH'S WELL, Leeds, England

05/05/98 : The LIQUID ROOM, Edinburgh, Scotland
Set-list : One Day, After School / Packs Of Three / Soaps / New Birds / Blood / Girls Of Summer / Here We Go / Phone Me Tonight / The Night Before The Funeral / I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night / Piglet / Afterwards / The First Time You're Unfaithful / My Favourite Muse // Deeper
Both Aidan and Malcom spill their drinks at some point. Aidan introduces Here We Go as "Disco Boy".

06/05/98 : KING TUT'S WAH WAH HUT, Glasgow, Scotland
Random Comment : "This was a great gig with the Strap on for about an hour and three quarters. With the two support bands (Macrocosmica and Electric Sound of Joy) that's a pretty decent fiver's worth. Loved the comedy keyboard bit at the end where they would just lean over and start one of the samples. So you'd have the end of Piglet or something and then 'DAH DE DA DA DA DA DAAAAH!' on the keyboard, heh heh."

07/05/98 : The WORKS, Aberdeen, Scotland
11/05/98 : The LOFT, Derby, England
12/05/98 : WEDGWOOD ROOMS, Portsmouth, England
13/05/98 : FLEECE & FIRKIN, Bristol, England
14/05/98 : CLUB IFOR BACH, Cardiff, England

15/05/98 : GUILDHALL ARTS CENTRE, Gloucester, England
This show featured much the same Arab Strap set as the rest of the tour but was quite unusual because, at the end of Electric Sound of Joy's support set, all 4 members of Arab Strap came on and did a lengthy (10 minute) Stereolab-ish jam with them. This was repeated at the end of Arab Strap's set, except this time the jam was more Mogwai-ish.

16/05/98 : Le BATEAU, Liverpool, England
17/05/98 : The RIVERSIDE, Newcastle, England
End of UK Philophobia tour

29/05/98 : The PARADISO, Amsterdam, Netherlands

30/05/98 : ZAAL BELGIE, Hasselt, Belgium
Set-list : Packs Of Three / Soaps / New Birds / Here We Go / Girls Of Summer / I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night/ Blood / The First Time You're Unfaithful / My Favourite Muse
A free show with German band Pluramon supporting. There wasn't a lot of interaction with the audience, except for someone who kept requesting Kate Moss! The band also appear to be quite drunk - after three attempts, they finally nail I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night.

31/05/98 : A-B CLUB, Brussels, Belgium
Set-list : One Day, After School / Packs Of Three / Soaps / New Birds / Here We Go / I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night / Piglet (intro only) / Blood / Girls Of Summer.
The Strap were bottom of the bill at this gig which also featured Solex, Kreidler and headliners Cornelius.

09/07/98 : The WESTPORT BAR, Dundee, Scotland
This was a warm-up for T In The Park and featured some of Philophobia plus a lot of older songs for a wee change.

11/07/98 : T IN THE PARK, Kinross, Scotland
Set-list: Girls Of Summer / New Birds / Here We Go / Soaps / Afterwards / I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night

24/07/98 : LOLLIPOP Festival, Stockholm, Sweden

Start of US Philophobia tour
28/07/98 : WNYU, New York, NY, USA
Setlist : Here We Go / Toy Fights / I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night / Not Quite A Yes

28/07/98 : BROWNIE'S, New York, USA
29/07/98 : The MIDDLE EAST, Boston, USA
30/07/98 : TAZ, New London, USA
31/07/98 : The KHYBER, Philadelphia, USA

01/08/98 : BUG JAR, Rochester, USA
Setlist : One Day, After School / Packs Of Three / New Birds / Here We Go / Phone Me Tomorrow / Girls Of Summer / I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night / My Favourite Muse / Blood
This concert was broadcast live by local radio station, Universal Buzz. The radio station tried to censor some of Aidan's vocals but they miss most of the swearing.
End of US Philophobia tour