Having supported Babyshambles, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong and The Courteeners earlier this year, BEGGARS will begin their first Headline Tour of the UK, starting this September.
The tour kicks off this friday with a FREE GIG! at the Royal Festival Hall in London.


All the dates are posted below, but for more information on tickets please click on the either of the links below to see Beggars Facebook or Myspace:

Facebook:
http://www.new.facebook.com/pa ges/BEGGARS/7726339639

Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/beggars band



AUTUMN TOUR 2008


Monday 15-Sep-08 England Stoke Sugarmill

Tuesday 16-Sep-08 England Liverpool Academy 2

Wednesday 17-Sep-08 England Cambridge Soul Tree

Thursday 18-Sep-08 England Nottingham Bodega

Friday 19-Sep-08 England Milton Keynes Sno!Bar

Sunday 21-Sep-08 England Manchester Night and Day

Tuesday 23-Sep-08 Wales Cardiff Barfly

Wednesday 24-Sep-08 England Oxford Bullingdon Arms

Thursday 25-Sep-08 England Hitchin Club 85

Friday 26-Sep-08 England Wolverhampton Civic Hall

Saturday 27-Sep-08 England Northampton Roadmenders

Sunday 28-Sep-08 England Reading South Street

Monday 29-Sep-08 England Leeds Cockpit

Friday 3-Oct-08 England Darlington Inside Out

Saturday 4-Oct-08 England Wakefield Escobar

Monday 6-Oct-08 England Southampton Joiners

Wednesday 8-Oct-08 England Birmingham Bar Academy

Friday 10-Oct-08 England Bristol Pet Sounds @ The Cooler

Saturday 11-Oct-08 England Middlesbrough Arena

Sunday 12-Oct-08 England Brighton Freebutt

Tuesday 14-Oct-08 England London 100 Club




':The Future - Q Track of the Day Review::

..Reading's Beggars are the ones with the most obvious potential. They're also the only ones you can imagine covering a song as complex and knotty as Leonard Cohen's The Future and not sounding completely out of their comfort zone. An apocalyptic prophecy in the style of A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall that pivots on the pitch-black refrain, "I have the seen the future, brother/It is murder", The Future featured on Cohen's gloomy, state-of-the-nation album of the same name in 1992, and two years later emerged on the similarly tenebrous Natural Born Killers soundtrack. However, Beggars turn the song into something that's furious and accusatory rather than cracked and fearful, with 19-year-old singer Jamie Girdler replacing Cohen's desert-dry whisper with his own incisive, declamatory wail. The only place you'll be able to buy The Future is at their live shows supporting Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong throughout April and May. A proper single release will emerge in May, followed by the band's debut album in the autumn.'

Q Magazine.


Given all the fuss surrounding his shows in the UK at the minute, opening your set with a version of one of Leonard Cohen's most famous songs could be construed as slightly stupid. Fortunately though, Reading's Beggars have many more tricks up their sleeves other than their ace beat group version of "The Future'. The likes of 'William' and 'You & Me' are awash with melodies and harmonies that somehow breathe sunshine into this darkest Soho basement, and the select few who are here to witness it know they're in the presence of something special. 'The Future'? You bet.

Liam Cash, NME Live Review, Madame JoJo's 23/06/08.