FULL LINE UP JOIN THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN IN A FAREWELL TO HAMMERSMITH PALAIS

A line up of very special guests has been confirmed to join The Good, The Bad and The Queen at Hammersmith Palais on Saturday night (March 31st).

The Tony Allen Orchestra will be the first to take to the stage, followed by performance poet John Cooper Clark, and DJ Don Letts is also due to play a set before The Good, The Bad and The Queen is played. The night will close with a DJ set by Jose Carretas from Restless Soul Productions.

This line up should ensure a truly legendary farewell to Hammersmith Palais.

The Good, The Bad and The Queen is out now on Parlophone, the album features Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Tony Allen and Simon Tong.

Green Fields, the third single taken from The Good, The Bad & The Queen, will be released on April 2. Written late at night somewhere on the Goldhawk Road (1999 - 2001), this is a song that Damon Albarn says ‘came back to me’ - he had gifted the demo to Marianne Faithfull, only to be reminded of it when she re-recorded it in 2005.

Green Fields will be available on gatefold 7”, 7” coloured vinyl and CD.

The Good, The Bad and The Queen will be performed at the closing weekend of Hammersmith Palais on Saturday March 31st. On April 1, the bulldozers move in and one of Britains cultural institutions will be demolished to make way for a new office block.

The Palais has been home to some of Britain’s great musical events and was immortalised in The Clash’s (White Man) In Hammermith Palais. Paul Simonon returns to the Palais for a final send off - this grande dame of venues will see a few treats from The Good The Bad & The Queen before she goes. Special guests The Tony Allen Orchestra, and others still to be announced.

Don’t miss out! Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday March 2nd for £25 – www.gigsandtours.com

Onsale and ticket info :

Rock Werchter tickets will go onsale on Tuesday, 20th February 2007, at 9 am.

Ticketprices :

Combiticket (valid the 4 days of the festival), 28th June - July 1st : €160
Dayticket Thursday 28th of June : €75
Dayticket Friday 29th of June : €75
Dayticket Saturday 30th of June : €69
Dayticket Sunday 1st of July : €75

*** All tickets are inclusive of public transport (trains NMBS and festivalshuttle De Lijn from Leuven) within the Belgian borders.

The festival lasts from Thursday 28th of June till Monday 2nd of July.

All info and ticket reservations :

www.rockwerchter.be
www.proximusgoformusic.be

Ticket phone :

In Belgium : 0900 2 60 60
In Holland : 0900 45 000 45
All other countries : +32 34 00 00 34

The Good, the Bad & the Queen, the collaboration between Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz), former Clash bassist Paul Simonon, Verve guitarist Simon Tong and Fela Kuti/Africa 70 drummer Tony Allen, whose eponymous, Danger Mouse-produced debut was released last week, have confirmed the following first-ever series of North American dates:

• March 11th - Toronto - Kool Haus
• March 12th - New York - Webster Hall
• March 14th - Washington - DC 930
• March 16th - Austin - Stubbs (SXSW)
• March 18th - New Orleans - Republic

GBQ have been announced to appear at the Cochella festival in the U.S. on 28th April.