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Current Album - Abelay Hotel

Released 12th Sept 2009 (Sound Asleep Records ZZZ19)
CD - £6.49 (includes worldwide postage)
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Dropkick's back catalogue can be also be purchased from www.tayloredrecords.co.uk.
You can download Abelay Hotel from the usual stores and listen to every song in full on the music player below.
   Gig Guide

 Fri 10th Sept 2010 @ Duke's Corner, 13 Brown Street, Dundee. Doors 8pm. Cost TBC. Support from My Alice Band.

Sat 11th Sept 2010 @ Holly Tree Tavern, Ballater Road, Dinnet, Aberdeenshire. Details TBC.

Fri 17th Sept 2010 @ The Village, 16 South Fort Street, Edinburgh. Doors 7.30pm. Cost TBC. With Andy Tucker and The Scattered Family & The Scuffers.

Fri 24th Sept 2010 @ The Twa Tams, Scott Street, Perth. 9.30pm. Free entry.

Sat 23rd Oct 2010 @ Ceol Mor, 18 Tomnahurich Street, Inverness. 9pm start. Free entry. 2 hour set - support from Andy Tucker.

Fri 26th Nov 2010 @ The 13th Note, King Street, Glasgow. Doors 8.30pm. £5. Support TBC.

For a gig archive, click here.

News Headlines

Amazing Radio Chart + Interview
posted 4th Aug 2010
Dropkick's song "Only For Yourself" has made it into the Top 10 of the Amazing Radio chart and has been getting lots of airplay on the station recently. You can listen to the staion on DAB in the UK or on the web. You can help keep the band in the chart by playing their songs on their Amazing Tunes page. An interview with Alastair from the band will also be broadcast on the Afternoon Show on Tue 10th August. The show starts at 3pm.

Songs from forthcoming album
24th May 2010
4 songs from Dropkick's next album (due for release early next year) can be heard at www.myspace.com/dropkickmusic.

Acoustic videos
24th May 2010
Here's some live video footage from an acoustic gig that Alastair and Andrew played at Woodend Tennis and Bowling Club in Glasgow earlier this year:
In Tune
Nowhere Girl
Watch
Breakdown

5 star review
25th February 2010
Mallorcan music website Pecan Pie has given Abelay Hotel a 5 star review. Read it here in Catalan and here in English.

Live review from Mallorca
25th February 2010
Spanish website IndyRock has given a great review to Dropkick's recent gig in Mallorca. Read it here in Spanish or here for an English translation.

Videos from tour of Spain
25th February 2010
There's lots of video footage from Dropkick's recent gigs in Spain. Here's some YouTube links:
Rings Of The Tree + Watch from Bluesville, Palm.
Rain Down from Bluesville, Palma.
Lucky That The Heart from Bluesville, Palma.
Avenues from Bluesville, Palma.
Obvious from Bluesville, Palma.
Don't Know Where It Ends from Bluesville, Palma.
Rings Of The Tree + Watch from Pub Kaia, Portugalete.
Only For Yourself from Pub Kaia, Portugalete.
Don't Know Where It Ends from Pub Kaia, Portugalete.
For a clip of Dropkick on Mallorcan TV, click here.
All these videos feature the very talented Iain Sloan filling in for Alastair on guitar and vocals.

Airplay update
26th January 2010
The Plastico Elastico show on Onda Madrid 103.1FM in Spain played "Too Much To Say " on 9th January. They also played "Back Of A Postcard" on 16th January and "Picking It Apart" on 19th December.
"Back Of A Postcard" was also played on VRN 1287AM in Kirkcaldy on 24th January.
"Making Time To Talk" was played on the Blue Heaven show on Uitzending 609 in the Netherlands on 30th December.

Airplay update
10th December 2009
On 9th December, Radio Gothenburg in Sweden played "Choose". You can listen to the show here. They also played "Don't Dream Of California" on 11th November. Listen to that show here.
Dutch radio station 105.3FM RTV Alkmaar played "Rain Down" on its Hans On The Move show on 10th Dec.
"Only For Yourself" was played on VRN 1287AM in Kirkcaldy on 15th Nov. They also played "Don't Dream Of California" on 29th Nov.
The Plastico Elastico show on Onda Madrid 103.1FM in Spain played "In Tune" on 6th December. They also played "Bad Dream" on 28th November, "Red Kite" on 21st November and "Rain Down" on 14th November.
Radio Cultura 100.9FM in Brasilia, Brazil played "Choose" on 12th November.

Best of 2009
10th Dec 2009
"Abelay Hotel" has made it onto the "best album of 2009" list on Swedish website Rootsy. The album comes in at no.14 on the list, ahead of Brendan Benson, The Felice Brothers and Richmond Fontaine.

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