Decaturville, Mash 1, The First Official Dave Sharp Weekend is now only two weeks away.

Tickets/passes will be posted out to UK based ticket holders this week. Tickets for those attending from overseas will be held for collection on the door.

The itinerary for the weekend is below. Tickets are still on sale at www.decaturville.co.uk

Friday Night tickets £10
Saturday all day pass £15
Weekend pass £25

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Itinerary
19th & 20th May 2006
The Attic Bar, Dundas Street, Glasgow

Friday Night:
Doors 7.30pm
Support: Paul Heaton, Booze `N` Daze
Main event: Dave Sharp Hard Folk Acoustic
Venue closes 1am.

Saturday Day:
Doors 1pm:
Rare video footage
Open mic (bring your own instruments!)
No holds barred Q & A session with Dave Sharp.

Saturday Night:
Doors 7pm
Support: Clova 8pm
Support: The Deportees 9pm
Main Event: Dave Sharp & The Deportees 10pm
Venue closes 1am.

For tickets and further information: www.decaturville.co.uk

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The latest addition to the line up of the Dave Sharp weekend Decaturville is top Glasgow folk band Clova (including long time Alarm/Dave fan Colin Bulloch on guitar, mandolin, banjo & vocals).

Clova will join the Saturday evening line-up alongside a supporting slot from The Deportees. The highlight of the evening will be when The Deportees are joined by Dave Sharp for the debut performance from Dave Sharp & The Deportees.


Described as 'acoustic with attitude', Clova have established themselves in the Scottish 'new folk' circuit with spirited and vivacious performances throughout Scotland & Ireland. As well as appearing on STV & BBC Scotland, the three piece also won The Big Issue's 2003 'Songs Of Freedom' competition.
www.clova-online.co.uk

The Decaturville weekend will also feature a Hard Rockin Folk set from Dave Sharp solo, Take A Look At The Punks contributors Booze'N'Daze, a 'no holds barred' question and answer session with Dave Sharp himself, an open mic session and as much rare audio & video footage as can be squeezed in.

Weekend passes & individual day tickets are available now - click here to buy.

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Dave is expected to appear on Coronation Street for the second time this week in Wednesday's episode. He will then miraculously transport himself from Coronation Street, Weatherfield to The Leopard, Doncaster for the first date of The Hard Folk Tour.

Monday's two episodes of Coronation Street both featured Dave in shot, but the second episode gave him his first TV speaking part - even if all he managed was ''no, no''!

Dave tells us that a second scene was recorded, again featuring former Hear'Say star Kim Marsh as wannabe singer Michelle and this is expected to air in Wednesday's episode.

You can see part of Dave's appearance in Monday's show by clicking the links below:
Windows Media (1.9MB)
Real Video (2.5MB)

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A couple more bits of Hard Folk news:

One new show has been added for Thursday 20th April at The Fox, Colsterworth (on the A1 between Grantham & Spalding).

Dave's performance at StrummerCamp, the Joe Strummer Tribute Festival is now confirmed for Saturday 27th May with a provisional stage time of approximately 6.30pm.

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Vernon Tomlin's Rock Rhythm Rascals return to Coronation Street tonight and Dave is reprising his role as their stand up bass player. This will be Dave's second appearance on The Street & promises to be a bit more prominent than last year's debut.

In the second of this evenings two episodes (8.30pm), former Hear'Say singer Kym Marsh auditions to join the band. Dave says he had a real hoot shooting the scenes and despite their very different musical heritages, Kym was a real pleasure to work with.

Dave will be leaving his fledgling acting career behind when he sets off on the Hard Folk tour later this week. The tour kicks off in Doncaster on Wednesday before heading via Stourbridge to South Wales and beyond.
For full details click here.
The Hard Folk tour is brought to you by Sound Control.

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Dave has been confirmed to perform at this year's Greenbelt Festival.

Dave will headline 800 capacity Performance Cafe venue at the festival on Friday 24th August.

This will be the third time Dave has played Greenbelt under his own name (The Alarm being Greenbelt regulars in the 80s), having been there in 1991 (playing a set with the Hard Travellers and also appearing solo on the main stage), and then with the Acoustic Terrorists in 1995. However, this will be his first visit to the festivals new home at Cheltenham Racecourse.

Greenbelt 2006 takes place between 24 & 28th August. Weekend tickets (including camping) are on sale now priced at £70 / £48 concessions / £35 children (B4 April 2006). Day tickets will also be available nearer to the festival and on the day.

For further info, visit www.greenbelt.org.uk

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Dave is to play two shows in the western highlands of Scotland as part of Easter-WEST Fest 2006.
The festival takes place in various venues around Scotland's Village Of Music, Ullapool between 14-16th April (Easter weekend).


Dave will play at The Caledonian Hotel on Friday 14th and at the Ferry Boat Inn on Saturday 15th.
An appearance at the late night Festival Club, also held at the Caledonian, is also scheduled - day to be confirmed.

All shows round the festival are free entry, with the only charge being £5 for the Festival Club.

Also appearing over the festival are Jeff & Vida (from Dave's former hometown of New Orleans), Scotland's leading country band The Sundowns, Celtic band The Crash Banjos and Ullapool's own Mojo Walk.

www.medicinemusic.co.uk

www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk

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Prior to Easter-West Fest, Dave will play The Listening Room @ Hootananny Ceilidh Bar, Inverness on Thursday 13th April.

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...11 come along together.

Hey Troopers & Troopesses.

You've all been very patient, but we can now confirm a whole bunch of new gigs, with more to follow.
The Hard Folk Tour 2006 is coming together.

The Dates are:

Friday 10th March (early evening show):
The Station, 7 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham

Wednesday 5th April:
The Leopard,1 West Street, Doncaster

Thursday 6th April:
Katie Fitzgeralds, 187 Enville Street, Wollaston, Stourbridge.
(previously announced)

Friday April 7th:
The Eagle Hotel, New Radnor, Powys

Saturday 8th April: The Angel Inn, 64 Rhosmaen Street,
Llandeilo Carmarthenshire

Sunday 9th April:
The Wharf Bar, 10 Wolverhampton St, Walsall

Saturday 22nd April:
Rose & Crown, Market Street, Charlbury, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

Thursday 4th May:
Undercover club, Bristol
(Venue details to be confirmed)

Friday 19th & Saturday 20th May:
Decaturville (The first Dave Sharp Weekend)
The Attic, 56 Dundas Street, Glasgow
(previously announced)

Saturday 3rd June:
The Station, 7 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham

Saturday 1st July:
The Craven Arms, 58 Craven Street, Coventry

Sunday 1st October:
Boars Head Taphouse, 39 Worcester Street, Kidderminster

All shows will be solo acoustic except Decaturville (line up to be confirmed). Many are free entry. Full details on the Tour Dates page.

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Dave Sharp now has a presence on MySpace Music, the community based website which is rapidly becoming THE place on the web for artists and bands to get themselves heard. MySpace Music is part of the wider MySpace community where anybody can sign up, share photos, write blogs, send mail and instant messages.

If you have a myspace account, please visit and add Dave Sharp to your friends. If you haven't, why not sign up and join the myspace community.



Many thanks to Troopers Christine & Lily for helping Dave to set up his MySpace.

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Not for the first time in his career, musical or otherwise, best part of Dave's performance seemed to end up on the cutting room floor, but D.C. Dave Sharp was responsible for cuffing the crook in tonight's episode of 'Life On Mars'

Dave's got a couple more TV roles coming up in the next couple of months. Still waiting on transmission details so not sure which order they will air in, but UK viewers can watch out for more Sharp in ITV's forthcoming Moors Murder drama and also in soap opera Emmerdale.
For fans overseas, 'Life On Mars' is being sold to a number of overseas networks, USA included. Keep your eyes open (and stay Sharp).

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Just a reminder for # troopers in the UK that Dave Sharp is suppossed to be in 'Life On Mars' on BBC1 this evening at 9pm.

Dave plays a side kick to DC Litton (played by long time Alarm fan Lee Ross, who shows up to straighten out DCI Hunt's sloppy police-work.

However, Dave hasn't been able to confirm that he's in this episode and doesn't recognise the synopsis ... it may be that the order of episodes has been changed. Set your videos, we'll let you know if he was in it!

Read about Life On Mars and read a preview of tonight's episode at http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lifeonmars/

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