Taking in venues and events such as Antichrist (London), The Trades Club (Hebden Bridge), Un-Peeled (Preston), Corallo (Italy), Bannermans (Edinburgh), The Cluny (Newcastle), 02 Academy (Islington) & Whitby Goth Weekend – it's going to be a very busy month.
Check out the gig page for more details...
Click this link for detailed gig listing
And The March Violets new website:
The March Violets 'Made Glorious' Tour 2013.
ALL dates - 10 gigs - are now confirmed. That should be it now...
Please come along and have fun.
These gigs are confirmed, more to be announced, so, diaries at the ready...
Saturday October 26th
The Trades Club
Holme St Town Centre, Hebden Bridge HX7 8EETickets on sale soon
Supports TBC
Sunday October 27th
The Continental,
South Meadow Lane, Preston, Lancashire PR1 8JPTickets on sale soon
Special Guests: Flesh For Lulu, John Hyatt (Three Johns), The Inca Babies.
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https://www.facebook.com/events/406821436094484/
Sunday 3rd November
The Coliseum
Victoria Place, Whitby, North Yorkshire YO21 1EZTickets on sale soon
Special Guests Partly Faithful
Sunday 10th November
Trillians
Princess Square Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8DETickets on sale soon
Supports TBC
Friday 22nd November
N1 Centre 16 Parkfield St, Islington N1 0PSTickets on sale soon
Supports TBC
Saturday 23rd November
33 Queen's Rd Leeds LS6 1NYTickets on sale soon
Supports TBC
The March Violets 2013
2013 saw the Made Glorious tour of the UK and Europe – to celebrate the successful PledgeMusic album 'Made Glorious'.
In 2012 THE MARCH VIOLETS recorded their first Album financed solely by fans through Pledge Music. To accompany its release we played some of the new material as well as old classics at the following venues:
26.10.2013 Hebden Bridge – The Trades Club, headlining the Ted Hughes Festival
27.10.2013 Preston - The Continental, as part of John Peel week / Un-Peeled & Dark Peel. With Special Guests: Flesh For Lulu, John Hyatt (Three Johns), The Inca Babies.
1.11.2013 London – Club Antichrist at Club Colosseum, Halloween Party http://clubantichrist.com/ac/
3.11.2013 Whitby Goth Weekend / DV8 - The Coliseum
Special Guests: Partly Faithful, Luxury Stranger.
8.11.2013 Corallo Rock Club, Scandiano, Italy: with many thanks to Grotesque productions & Ascension magazine!
10.11.2013 Newcastle – Trillians. With special guests Berlin Black and Jordan Reyne.
15.11.2013 Nottingham – Spanky Van Dykes. Thanks to DV8 promotions! Special Guests: Simon York (from Luxury Stranger), Jordan Reyne, Witch Hunt. Batronic Aftershow till 2am with DJ Heathen and DJ GlitterHawk
17.11.2013 Edinburgh – Bannermans. Special Guests: Dead Eyes Opened.
22.11.2013 02 Academy, London. Special Guests: The Last Cry
24.11.2013 The Brudenell, Leeds – with very special guests Chameleons Vox plus + Witch Hunt + Free Aftershow
United Kingdom
7pm till late
A little purple do... Convivial and intimate. We decided to do a thing where we rehearsed, maybe a new Song, definitely a full set, then screened the Dan E Falicki film 'An Anti American' that Tom did the score for. With Free Popcorn!
We will be providing general chitchat, and some other stuff. Unholy Racket will have an exhibition of his prints. There'll be a raffle for something good, some Psydwr, Si's Caipirinha Cocktails, probably some gourmet food available from the chefs. A bit of a disco afterwards. Who knows what may turn up.
Limited Numbers, Late Licence, Lots of Lounging around.
Tickets will be £12, available from the Fulford Arms, or online at
Click to go to The March Violets website
Bring your Paypal receipt as a ticket, and as entry into the raffle.
Date - Sunday 17th November
Doors: 8pm-1am
Special Guests: Dead Eyes Opened, + TBC.
Tickets on Sale Now: £12
Friday 15th November
Spanky Van Dyke's17 Goldsmith StNottingham NG1 5JTDoors: 7pm – 2am
Tickets: £13
Special Guests: Simon York (from Luxury Stranger), Jordan Reyne, Witch Hunt.
Batronic Aftershow till 2am with DJ Heathen and DJ GlitterHawk
Tickets from Spanky's and Music Exchange soon, and here right now:
Friday 1st November
Club Colosseum,1 Nine Elms Lane,Vauxhall, London SW8 5NQDoors open at 8pm
Happy Hours 8-11
Last entry 2.30am, club closes at 6am.
Strict dress code: go for it.
STRICT Dress code applies: Alternative, Goth, Industrialist, Cybergoth, Punk, Drag Queen, TV/TS, Theatrical, Bondage, PVC, Vampire, Drag...etc. More on the AC dresscode can be found on their site
10% off ticket price for our fans, ltd number, use the code PURPLE in the discount box. Tickets here:
http://clubantichrist.com/ac/index.php/tickets
Guests: Pretty Addicted, Marnie Scarlet and Many Others
AC website: http://clubantichrist.com/ac/
Sunday October 27th
Tel - 01772 499425
The March Violets with Special Guests: Flesh For Lulu, John Hyatt (Three Johns), The Inca Babies.
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3 Peel sessions between 82 and 84 means The March Violets are well-qualified to play 'Un-Peeled' and we're delighted to have secured their only North West date on their Autumn 'Made Glorious' tour.
Please note, early doors 6.30pm!
Tickets on sale direct
https://shop.ticketscript.com/channel/web2/get-dates/rid/VZ7SR44K/eid/181252/language/en/format/html
Event Page
https://www.facebook.com/events/406821436094484/
I’m honoured – my essay ‘Don’t Fence Me In’ is included in this wonderful collection! (Nine Arches Press, ed Ian Humphreys)
‘What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with set-backs and deal with success? What keeps them writing?
In Why I Write Poetry twenty-five contemporary poets reflect with insight, wit and wisdom on the writing life, each offering their distinctive take on what inspires and spurs them on to write poetry. Also - individual writing prompts to help you create your own new poetry.’
https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/why-i-write-poetry.html
A wonderful way to end a difficult year – ‘What Girls Do in the Dark’ selected by Pippa Hennessy as a Poetry Society Best Book of the Year!
https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poetry-news-best-books-of-the-year/
“Finally, Rosie Garland’s What Girls Do in the Dark (Nine Arches) – Garland is a true gothic polymath. This is reflected in her poetry, which roams through astrophysics, war zones, quantum theory, human biology, history, relationships and non-relationships, and more. The poems in What Girls Do in the Dark take this variety to extremes, yet somehow manage to bring concrete details and abstract ideas from all these areas together into a coherent, explosive, dazzling, gorgeous whole.”
– Pippa Hennessy is a bookseller at Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham.
Thank you Henry Normal for selecting What Girls Do in the Dark for Northern Soul’s Best Reads of 2021!
Books: Northern Soul’s Best Reads of 2021
Henry Normal, poet and writer
What Girls do in the Dark (Nine Arches Press) by Rosie Garland is my favourite poetry book of the year. Garland was a singer in the 1980s post-punk/goth band The March Violets. More recently, she’s established herself as a poet and novelist with several titles. I had the honour to read with her in Birmingham a while back, so when her new collection was released I was already interested. From the first poem I was captivated. She has a way of keeping one foot tentatively in the world we know with the other searching for a foothold in an unseen or imaginary world. I was inspired and transported by these poems in a way I’ve not experienced since first getting excited by the possibilities of poetry in my teens. I suspect it would not be good form to choose one of my poetry books for this feature but even if it was, I would choose Garland’s What Girls do in the Dark.
https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/books-northern-souls-best-reads-of-2021/
Thank you Vive le Rock magazine, for the great feature on The March Violets!
https://vivelerock.net/product/vive-le-rock-84-motorhead-girlschool-preorder/
Well, look at what happened on Record Store Day UK on July 17th 2021!
The March Violets ‘Big Soul Kiss’ - all the 1980s BBC Sessions in one place.
And PURPLE vinyl too #RSD21 #rsddrops
UPDATE – the entire pressing sold out in 24 hours. Jungle Records are releasing a CD version in 2022… plus more releases planned. Watch this space!
https://www.facebook.com/JungleRecords/