The 'Pictures' winter tour 2008 - In the UK, France and Germany.
Tickets are on sale for all shows.
| Special Guests for the nine UK shows from 12th to 23rd Dec are Manfred Mann's Earthband -
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Ayr Festival - Transport
Ayr Racecourse are providing transport for fans travelling from Glasgow. Express coaches will operate from Glasgow City Centre to Ayr Racecourse
on Saturday May 24 for the Burns Rock At The Racecourse concert.
The coaches will depart from George Square at 4.45 pm returning at 10.45
pm.
For more information go to www.ayr.racecourseexpress.co.uk
or call 08450 944620.
Ayr Racecourse Ticket Hotline: 0870-8505666
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May 31st - Venue Change
The show on May 31st has been moved from Winterthur to the Festhalle Rüegerholz, Frauenfeld, in Switzerland
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 The Official 40th Anniversary Book
Status Quo 40 - The 40th Anniversary Book can now be purchased from the Quo Shop.
The book comes in two editions, a Regular Edition and a Limited Edition, which comes with extra content.
For more details, or to order copies of both editions now:
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Rick Parfitt Jnr and band support Quo at Forest gigs
Rick Parfitt Jnr & the
RPJ Rock Band will be supporting Quo at the Cannock Forest and Dalby
Forest gigs on 27th & 28th June 2008.
Last year Rick Jnr performed at events and shows all over the country
including being asked to play for both HRH Prince William and HRH Prince
Andrew at their respective events. Rick Jnr also had a top 10 hit with a
single he penned for "King of the Jungle" Matt Willis and released his
own single, his rocked up re-working of the Tears for Fears classic
"Sowing the Seeds of Love", which was also the theme music for ITV 1's series 'Holly and Fearn Go Dating'. The track is available only as a download from iTunes.
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Quo at the Castle
Merthyr Tydfil will be rocking on Saturday 26 July 2008 when Quo play at Cyfarthfa Castle. Ticket links and Box Office number in the tour page.
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Charity Concert
Quo will headline a concert at Central Park, Dagenham on Sunday August 10th in aid of Cancer Research and St Dunstan's. Other acts include David Essex, Showaddywaddy, and Les McKeown's Bay City Rollers.
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Quo at the British International Motor Show
Quo will appear at the British International Motor Show in it's Music Festival which takes place in a specially created riverside concert venue, as part of the Motor Show at Excel in London on Friday July 25th. Music Festival tickets will be sold separately but include free access to The British International Motor Show on the day of the concert.
The festival runs from 23 July to 3 August. Other artists due to appear include UB40, Squeeze, Here and Now 80s Tour (featuring Bananarama, Belinda Carlisle, Paul Young, Toyah, Kid Creole, Midge Ure and Nick Heyward) Deep Purple and Jools Holland featuring Marc Almond, with more acts to be announced soon.
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Fourth Chord Tour Merchandising now available online.
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The entire range of merchandise offered for sale at Quo's European & UK tour during 2007 is now available from the Quo shop. Items include clothing, accessories and the 2007/8 Tour Programme which has a fold-out 2008 calendar.
Also available now - The 'In Search of the Fourth Chord' CD, and the Special Edition "12" vinyl album which can be personally signed by each member of the band.
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Quo Pictures
Pictures of the UK tour by Gert Ohlsson and Simon Cooper are on the site now.
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UK Forest Tour Dates 2008
Tickets are on sale now for the following shows:
Saturday 7th June 2008 - Thetford Forest, Santon Downham, Brandon, Suffolk
Sunday 22nd June 2008 - Westonbirt, Tetbury, Glos.
Friday 27th June 2008 - Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire.
Saturday June 28th 2008 - Dalby Forest, Yorks.
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Quo Xmas Single News
Quo have mentioned in recent press interviews that there are plans to
release an Xmas single.
Due to there not being enough time to plan promotion and marketing
schedules for a release this year, it has been decided to postpone the single until Nov 2008.
No further singles are currently planned from the 'In Search Of The
Fourth Chord' album.
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New Telecaster Facelifts now available!
Available now from the Facelift shop, four new telecaster Facelifts. including Rick's 'Target' Facelift.
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Concert for Diana DVD
A DVD of July's 'Concert for Diana' at Wembley Stadium was released on November 5th. The 2 x DVD set features Quo's performance of Rocking All Over The World along with performances by 21 other artists including
Elton John, Rod Stewart, Joe Perry and Kanye West. Charities benefiting from the sale of the DVD will be the same as the Concert beneficiaries - including The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and many others. For more details go to:
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StatusQuo .co.uk and .com websites merge.
We're delighted to announce the merger of both of the main Quo domains and web sites, with all of statusquo.com's unique content integrated into statusquo.co.uk.
As many fans will know, statusquo.com has been run independently by Gert Ohlsson for the last ten years. As well as working on this official site, Gert has continued running some great original features on statusquo.com, including the famous Quo Juke, Clip of the Month, the largest Quo Lyric Archive online and also a great Quo picture gallery.
The good news is that all of these pages are now on statusquo.co.uk and Gert will still be running them. They have been updated and expanded with new features and we are sure they will continue to be some of the most visited Quo web pages.
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Rossi and Parfitt Telecaster Facelifts now available!
Make your Tele look like the Quo classics...
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Status Quo - CARE FACTOR ZERO - The Movie
Filming in Thailand for Quo's debut feature film 'Care Factor Zero' has now been put back until February 2009. Although the majority of the financing for the film is now in place, it has been decided to delay filming (originally scheduled for February 2008) due to demands on the band to promote the 'In Search of the Fourth Chord' album outside of Europe during this period. The script has now been rewritten to include sequences of Quo at a live gig in Bangkok!
If you have not already registered your interest, please do so:
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 Just Doin' It (Live) - DVD
Quo's explosive new concert DVD 'Just Doin' It Live' is released by Warner Vision. Filmed at their sell out 2006 concert at Birmingham NEC, the DVD is the band's first 'live in concert' release for an incredible fifteen years.
The DVD features the full rocking concert of over 2 hours, and also contains three exclusive bonus features: a behind-the-scenes documentary containing interviews with all five band members, the video promo for their 2005 single 'The Party Ain't Over Yet' and a fans photo gallery.
As well as the standard DVD, a stunning Limited Edition Box Set is also scheduled to hit the shops. This must-have collector's item contains: the DVD; a 14 track live CD of the concert, 5 exclusive postcards, a poster, a Quo car sticker, a whopping 60 page booklet crammed full with previously unseen photos plus a set list from the NEC show!
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