1999

1999 was primarily made up of two tours, the UK Elephant Shoe tour and the massive European tour supporting Tindersticks.


04/08/99 : NICE N SLEAZY, Glasgow, Scotland
Set-list : An Eventful Day / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Afterwards / Soaps / Pro (Your) Life / One Four Seven One / Pyjamas / Autumnal // encore: Direction Of Strong Man / Hello Daylight
A fairly short gig, but they played new songs from Elephant Shoe for the first time along with a couple of tracks from Philophobia. Lauren Laverne and Stuart Braithwaite were in attendance


06/08/99 : FESTIVAL SUDOESTE, Portugal


07/08/99 : BENICASSIM Festival, Castellón, Spain
Set-list : Direction of Strong Man / An Eventful Day / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Pyjamas / Soaps / Afterwards / Autumnal


14/08/99 : LE ROUTE DU ROCK, Saint-Malo, France


29/08/99 : LOWLANDS FESTIVAL, Netherlands
Set-list : Direction of Strong Man / New Birds / Aries the Ram / Motown Answers / Girls of Summer / An Eventful Day / One Four Seven One / Soaps / Hello Daylight / Autumnal


30/08/99 : READING FESTIVAL, Reading, England
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Girls Of Summer / Pyjamas / Soaps / Hello Daylight / Autumnal
Stuart from Mogwai appeared onstage with the band for Autumnal.


31/08/99 : LEEDS FESTIVAL, Leeds, England
02/09/99 : The EMPIRE, Belfast, Northern Ireland


03/09/99 : HQ, Dublin, Eire
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Rm / Motown Answers / Girls Of Summer / An Eventful Day / One Four Seven One / Soaps / Hello Daylight / Autumnal // encore: New Birds
This was the first time that Aidan sung Aries/Motown without Adele as she wasn't there.


06/09/99 : LISSARD FESTIVAL, Skibbereen, Eire


06/09/99 : EVENING SESSION, BBC Radio 1
Setlist: Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Autumnal / Pyjamas
First broadcast date. Recorded ???


06/09/99 : INSIDE TRACKS [TV show], BBC
First broadcast date. Recorded ???


Start of UK Elephant Shoe tour
13/09/99 : WEDGEWOOD ROOMS, Portsmouth, England
14/09/99 : THE ZODIAC, Oxford, England
15/09/99 : PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, Leicester, England
21/09/99 : PHOENIX, Exeter, England
22/09/99 : TRINITY, Bristol, England


23/09/99 : UNION CHAPEL, London, England
Set-list : The Drinking Eye / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Toy Fights / New Birds / Pro-(Your) Life / Blood / An Eventful Day / Soaps / Hello Daylight / Autumnal // encore Direction Of Strong Man / Pyjamas / Afterwards
The band start off like professionals but by the half way point, Aidan is completely steaming, forgetting the words to numerous songs ("This should be a fuckin' laugh" - before Blood).


25/09/99 : ARTS CENTRE, Colchester, England
27/09/99 : COCKPIT, Leeds, England


28/09/99 : THE LIQUID ROOM, Edinburgh, Scotland
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Toy Fights / New Birds / The Drinking Eye / An Eventful Day / One Four Seven One / Leave The Day Free / Soaps / Hello Daylight / Autumnal // encore Blood / Pyjamas / Afterwards


29/09/99 : MITCHELL THEATRE, Glasgow, Scotland (Rescheduled - See 12/11 )
End of UK Elephant Shoe tour


Start of European Tindersticks support tour
08/10/99 : VREDENBURG, Utrecht, Netherlands


09/10/99 : PC 69, Bielefeld, Germany
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / New Birds / Blood / Soaps / Kate Moss / Afterwards


10/10/99 : GROSSE FREIHEIT, Hamburg, Germany


12/10/99 : CIRKUS, Stockholm, Sweden
Set-list : I Would've Like Me A Lot Last Night / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Hello Daylight / Soaps / Pro (Your) Life / Pyjamas / Afterwards


13/10/99 : DEN GRA HAL, Copenhagen, Denmark


14/10/99 : COLUMBIAHALLE, Berlin, Germany
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night / Hello Daylight / New Birds / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Pyjamas / Afterwards


16/10/99 : L'USINE, Geneva, Switzerland


17/10/99 : ROTE FABRIK, Zurich, Switzerland
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Hello Daylight / Soaps / Toy Fights / Pyjamas / Afterwards
Radio broadcast.


18/10/99 : CIRCUS KRONE, Munich, Germany


19/10/99 : PLANET MUSIC, Vienna, Austria
Setlist: I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night / Hello Daylight / An Eventful Day / One Four Seven One / Soaps / The Drinking Eye / Autumnal


21/10/99 : VOX, Modena, Italy
Random Comment : "I just can't believe, I just can't believe it. I drove 3 hours to Modena yesterday. 3 hours for going and 3 for coming back. Alone. More than £50 for the ticket, the highway and fuel. Only to see Arab Strap live. And they played 3 songs. Only three songs!!!! Soaps, one song that I haven't recognised (unreleased maybe?) and Autumnal. I wanted to kill them! And Adele wasn't there."


22/10/99 : ESPACE JULIEN, Marseille, France
Set-list included New Birds / One Four Seven One / Soaps / Autumnal


23/10/99 : PALACIO DE LA MUSICA, Barcalona, Spain


24/10/99 : TEATRO VICTORIA EGRIA, San Sebastian, Spain
Set-list : New Birds / Hello Daylight / An Eventful Day / One Four Seven One / Soaps / The Drinking Eye / Autumnal
Apparently the previous gig in Barcelona was an almost identical set.


26/10/99 : LA RIVIERA, Madrid, Spain
27/10/99 : TEATRO CERVANTES, Malaga, Spain


29/10/99 : COLISEUM, Lisbon, Portugal
Set-list : New Birds / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Hello Daylight / Soaps / The Drinking Eye / Autumnal


01/11/99 : KRAKATOA, Bordeaux, France
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Hello Daylight / Soaps / Afterwards
A fairly short gig as the band had to leave the venue early so that the could be in Paris very early the next day to record for Nulle Part Aulleurs.


02/11/99 : Nulle Part Aulleurs [TV show], Paris, France
Broadcast live - one song - Direction Of Strong Man


02/11/99 : PALAIS DE LA MUTUALITE, Paris, France
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Hello Daylight / Soaps / The Drinking Eye / Autumnal


03/11/99 : BOTANIQUE, Brussels, Belgium
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / New Birds / Pyjamas / An Eventful Day / One Four Seven One / Soaps / Hello Daylight / The Drinking Eye / Autumnal // encore Toy Fights / Afterwards
[Arab Strap headline show rather than Tindersticks support]


05/11/99 : E-WERK, Koln, Germany
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Hello Daylight / Soaps / Pyjamas / Autumnal


06/11/99 : THÉATRE JEAN VILAR, Saint-Quentin, France
Set-list : Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / Hello Daylight / Soaps / Pyjamas / Autumnal
Festival du Devenir


07/11/99 : HAMMERSMITH PALAIS, London, England
End of European Tindersticks support tour


12/11/99 : MITCHELL THEATRE, Glasgow, Scotland
Set-list : The Drinking Eye / Direction Of Strong Man / Aries The Ram / Motown Answers / New Birds / An Eventful Day / One Four Seven One / Hello Daylight / Soaps / Pyjamas / Autumnal // encore Leave The Day Free / Toy Fights / Blood / Afterwards.
Re-sheduled from the original date on the UK tour


20/11/99 : RODON CLUB, Athens, Greece
21/11/99 : MYLOS, Thessaloniki, Greece

[End of 1999 gigography]