Additional shows have been added to Blondie’s summer tour schedule, and more will be announced in the coming weeks.

Blondie is pleased to announce that they will perform on July 11 at Kew Gardens in London. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the Kew Gardens Kew The Music details page.  Tickets go on sale March 7. Additional shows in the summer tour schedule will be announced soon!

Media release: Debbie Harry to perform with the Jazz Passengers and Northern Sinfonia on the opening day of the Gateshead International Jazz Festival, 25-27 March 2011 in northeast England.

The Sage Gateshead are very excited to be introducing downtown New York to their jazz festival when the iconic voice of Blondie meets the anarchic wit of one of the definitive alt-jazz bands of recent years, the Jazz Passengers, along with Northern Sinfonia, orchestra of The Sage Gateshead. The combination of hard bop, off-beat comedy and improvisation of the very highest order is the Jazz Passengerss hallmark and the dynamic between this team of jazz heavyweights and punk rocks answer to Marilyn Monroe (The Spectator) is fired by a quintessential New York attitude. Robert Ziegler conducts Northern Sinfonia in only the third performance of a tremendous orchestral version of this collaboration, scored by the bands brilliant vibist Bill Ware in a song-cycle that brings out the wit and edge of lyrics superbly delivered by Debbie Harry, complemented by the solo strengths of the Jazz Passengerss founding fathers, saxophonist Roy Nathanson and trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, as well as the fluent violin lines of Sam Barfield. For further details or to purchase tickets, visit The Sage Gateshead official site and the Gateshead International Jazz Festival 2011 details page.

Once again in March, Clem will be going back out on tour in the U.S. and Canada with Hugh Cornwell, the original guitarist, singer, and main songwriter in the UK-based band The Stranglers.  For full details and the latest information including the complete list of the tour dates, visit the Official Hugh Cornwell site’s tour dates page.  Except as noted, the shows feature two sets; the first is a collection of Stranglers hits and classic solo material, with the second featuring The Stranglers seminal debut album Rattus Norvegicus IV performed in its entirety.

March 3 – Las Vegas Country Saloon – Las Vegas, NV (This is a ‘one off’ special show, with first half being an acoustic storytelling and the second half a full band show.) (tix)
March 4 – Viper Room – Los Angeles, CA (regular and VIP tickets available) (tix)
March 5 – Red Devil Lounge – San Francisco, CA (early show) (tix)
March 6 – Blue Lamp – Sacramento, CA (tix)
March 10 – East End – Portland, OR
March 11 – The Funhouse – Seattle, WA (tix)
March 12 – Venue – Vancouver, BC (early show) (tix)
March 15 – The Haven Social Club – Edmonton, AB (tix)
March 17 – Pyramid Cabaret – Winnipeg, MB (tix)
March 18 – 400 Bar – Minneapolis, MN (tix)
March 19 – Off Broadway – St. Louis, MO (tix)
March 21 – Republic – New Orleans, LA (tix)
March 22 – Numbers – Houston, TX (tix)
March 23 – Lovejoys – Austin, TX (free show)
March 26 – George & Dragon – Phoenix, AZ (tix)
March 27 – Alex’s Bar – Long Beach, CA (tix)

Debbie Harry, The Who, Bryan Adams, Jeff Beck, and The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft will perform at a benefit concert for the charity Killing Cancer, this Thursday, January 13 at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo in London.  For more information about the event or to purchase tickets, visit the HMV Tickets webpage.