Danny Vaughn Tour

[ARfm Press Office]

Danny Vaughn
Announces “Inspirations and Aspirations Tour 2010”

www.dannyvaughn.com www.myspace.com/vaughnband

Danny Vaughn, described by Classic Rock Magazine as being, “One of the top voices of the melodic hard rock genre”, returns to the stage in December 2010 with the Inspirations and Aspirations Tour.

Following on from the success of his last album, Traveller, and the 2008 live album, The Road Less Travelled, Danny Vaughn and his band will tour the UK with a concert of two halves.

Part one is Inspirations; songs by the artists that influenced Danny Vaughn as a songwriter and singer.

Part two is Aspirations; songs covering Danny’s entire career, from Waysted to Tyketto, Flesh & Blood to Vaughn.

This is the first time that Danny Vaughn has performed such a wide range of songs in one live show, and with such a variety of artists and songs that inspired him to become a singer/songwriter, you can expect a few surprises to boot!
As you can imagine, for such a performance, you need versatile and exceptional musicians.

Danny Vaughn’s band for this tour will include some of the UK’s top musicians; Chris Childs (Thunder), Ryan Aston (Bonnie Tyler) and Christian Phillips (Ultimate Eagles).

Happiness, Sadness, Joy, Heartbreak: For the first time Danny Vaughn will give you his life in music! This is a night not to be missed!


Inspirations and Aspirations Tour 2010
December 3 – Belfast, Rosetta – www.wegottickets.com
December 4 – London, Camden Underworld – www.theunderworldcamden.co.uk
December 5 – Sheffield, Corporation - www.corporation.org.uk
December 10 – Dudley, JB’s - www.jbsdudley.co.uk
December 11 – Newcastle, Cluny – www.hardrockhouse.com
December 12 – Glasgow ABC2 – www.triplegmusic.com

To coincide with the announcement of the Inspirations & Aspirations tour Danny Vaughn will also release “Reprise”, a box set that packages together Soldiers & Sailors On Riverside & Fearless into one fantastic double CD, and adds additional bonus material to make it a superb addition to anyone’s collection.

[Lee]

Typical, so-called, UK tour

There are places and people South of London, who'd like to see certain bands play but, for one reason or another, can't afford/get time off, to travel to London or beyond, every bleeding tour!!!!

[mikey]

likewise lee.....we may be crap at football and not very good at rugby......but everyone forgets about us in wales.

[Janette]

Would love to go - if I'm not languishing in debtors prison by December I'll try and make one! Belfast would be my preferred one but funds don't allow for that right now

Need the winning lottery numbers!

[Alison]

Mar 6, 2010 15:35:59 GMT Lee said:

Typical, so-called, UK tour

There are places and people South of London, who'd like to see certain bands play but, for one reason or another, can't afford/get time off, to travel to London or beyond, every bleeding tour!!!!

Those venues are all pretty wide apart, and even though I'm well north of London and "oop" north, none of them are exactly convenient to me either! Still, as far as numbers that will go to them, they are fishing in quite a small pond. I guess its the price we pay for being into a minority music genre.

[Woody]

Unfortunatley if bands could tour more extensivley within this genre it would also lower attendences at some venues, as people wouldn't have to travel. Its a catch 22 situation....please fans and play to more fans BUT to smaller audiences in all venues....and obviously it starts to be about money when you have very small turn out's.

for example if something like Firefest toured even just to the degree of the DV tour would each gig pull in a thousand fans? probably not.....

Woody

[Alison]

Mar 7, 2010 20:57:35 GMT Woody said:

Unfortunatley if bands could tour more extensivley within this genre it would also lower attendences at some venues, as people wouldn't have to travel. Its a catch 22 situation....please fans and play to more fans BUT to smaller audiences in all venues....and obviously it starts to be about money when you have very small turn out's.

for example if something like Firefest toured even just to the degree of the DV tour would each gig pull in a thousand fans? probably not.....

Woody

Spot on.

[Lee]

So basically, what your saying is, if you live South of London, or in parts of Wales, Scotland or N. Ireland, your not gonna get the chance to see your favourite bands play live.......Great

Surely is Winger and Europe can play small clubs in Portsmouth and Bournemouth, then there must be a fan base down here that Danny Vaughn could tap into, eh?

[Woody]

No, i totally understand your frustration Lee. What i think tour organisers should do is shake up the venues each tour, like the big tour operators do. Not more dates, alternate venues within a catchment area.

So instead of doing London they do a south coast gig. then a gig for those in Devon/cornwall the following tour. It all really boils down to attendences and that specific venue's financial turn over.

There's alot of frustration with some of the smaller bands and their tour organisers as they just get turned down outright by ideal venues all over the country. Also if a venue gives a band a chance and attendence is too low, or leaves the venue owner out of pocket that venue won't take a chance again.

I think alot of organisers hope that people will travel, but i'm sure loads of bands are never seen by a lot of fans cause its not affordable, too far away on a work night or just plain too far away.

Although the DV tour ain't as extensive as his fanbase is, you do have to give the organisers credit for spreading the dates about, including Belfast, Glasgow and a north east date which aren't part of the usual venue's.

Unfortunatley it all boils down money, but you have to support your local venues and rally the troops so when a band does play the venue goes oh that wasn't a bad money spinner when Mr promoter phones me again i'll say yes what day would you like! For example if there's a good turnout for Winger down your way, that promoter should be able to use that venue again, bad turnout and he's buggered.....

There's a HUGE following for this sort of music in south wales, but can bands can't get a gig there for love nor money......nope and there is plenty of ideal venues there! I don't think it's about organisers or bands not caring about fans more to do with options and money. Considering half the JB's crowd is welsh you'd think a gig would do well in Wales, it just needs one of those venue's to go ahh fook it....lets do it....and good turnout permited we will have ourselves another regular venue!.......not sure what the north welsh would feel about that though......hahaha!

Woody