BOB'S GIGS AND MY GIGS

I do realise, of course, very readily and strongly, that Bob's big gigs are incomparably more significant than my own, such that it may seem foolishly Canute-like for me to be touting my own tour while Dylan himself is around (and for example when, reputedly, there were over 100,000 attempts made to get at the 3000 Roundhouse tickets for his concert on April 26).

But I just want to say that not only am I under no deranged delusion about any of this, but also that attending the big tour doesn't actually physically preclude anyone from attending my events. It works out like this:

March 29: Dylan in Copenhagen; no Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues event
March 30: no Dylan event; no BD&PB event either
March 31: Dylan in Hannover; BD&PB in Amherst/Buffalo NY
April 1: Dylan in Berlin; no BD&PB event
April 2: Dylan in Erfurt; BD&PB in Chestertown MD
April 3: no Dylan concert; BD&PB in Nyack NY
April 4: Dylan in München; no BD&PB event
April 5: Dylan in Saarbrücken; no BD&PB event
April 6: no Dylan concert; BD&PB in Toronto
April 7,8,10-12,14, 15: Dylan in Paris, Amsterdam, Basle & Milan; no BD&PB events
Apriil 16: no Dylan event; me: no BD&PB either
April 17: Dylan in Rome; BD&PB in Buxton
April 18, 20-22: Dylan in Florence, Geneva, Strasbourg & Brussels; no BD&PB events
April 23: no Dylan concert; BD&PB in Herne Bay
April 24: Dylan in Sheffield; no BD&PB event
April 25: Dylan in London (O2 Arena); BD&PB in Portland Maine
April 26: Dylan in London (Roundhouse); no BD&PB event
April 27: no Dylan event; no BD&PB event either
April 28: Dylan in Cardiff; no BD&PB event
April 29: Dylan in Birmingham (UK); BD&PB in Farmingdale, Long Island
April 30: no Dylan event; no BD&PB event either
May 1: Dylan in Liverpool; no BD&PB event
May 2: Dylan in Glasgow, Scotland; BD&PB in Bridgwater, Somerset
May 3, 5 & 6: Dylan in Edinburgh & Dublin; no BD&PB events
May 7: Dylan's tour has ended; no BD&PB event
May 8: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Doncaster
May 9: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Ledbury
May 10: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Sudbury
May 13: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Uppingham, nr. Leicester
May 15: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Stroud
May 16: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Berwick-upon-Tweed
May 20: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Madison WI
May 21: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Hibbing MN
May 27: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Dublin, Ireland
May 28: NEW DATE SQUEEZED IN: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Galway, Ireland
May 29: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Maidstone, Kent
May 30: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Bridport, Dorset
June 4: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Southport
June 6: Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.

Er, that's it.