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The Paper Chase are currently putting the finishing touches on their first European tour in over two years, in support of their new album Someday This Could All Be Yours (Volume 1) .

With each track representing a different natural disaster, main-man John Congleton crafts his most startling account of humanity. On Someday, he explores the existential crisis inherent within a universe seemingly fated to exterminate its population. Wringing the most sinister and destructive elements out of the natural world, Congleton creates characters frantically trying to survive elements far beyond their control. While the narrative voices obsess over the batteries in their smoke alarms, the dams along the river and their desperate prayers for health and prosperity, these songs expose the utter frailty of the human condition. Faced with huge catastrophic or cosmic events, man has no choice but to recognise his own insignificance.

The dates are:

October 2009

• 16 FORT WORTH USA LOLAS
• 21 PRAGUE CZE 007 CLUB
• 22 VIENNA AUT CHELSEA
• 23 LINZ AUT STOPSPOT FESTIVAL
• 24 INNSBRUCK AUT PMK
• 25 NURNBURG GER K4
• 26 LJUBLJANA SLO KUD
• 28 ROME ITA INIT
• 29 BOLOGNA ITA LOCOMOTIVE CLUB
• 30 VILLAFRANCA (Verona) ITA KROEN CLUB
  
• 31 LAUSANNE SWZ BLEU LEZARD

November 2009

• 01 ANTWERP BEL SCH
• 03 WURZBURG GER CAIRO
• 04 BERLIN GER CAFE ZAPATA
• 06 MUNSTER GER AMP
• 07 MOSCOW RUS MOS20PROEKT
• 08 ST PETERSBURG RUS AZ
• 10 VENLO HOL PERRON 55
  
• 11 LONDON GBR LEXINGTON
• 12 NOTTINGHAM GBR SEVEN
• 13 LEEDS GBR BRUD
• 14 BRIGHTON GBR ENGINE ROOM

 Someday and other delights from the Paper Chase are available from the Southern web shop..

 Thanks!