March 25th 2000
The video shoot is finished and it's in post production. You can see a couple of stills here.
February 2000
There is a promotional cassette featuring two songs featuring two songs from the new album, "reasons" and "HK". These will be available at the gigs.
March 2000
The lads are going to LA, this weekend to shoot the video for the forthcoming single "Horns Front". It will be directed by Glenn Bennet and hopefully completed in April.
January 2000
A couple more dates planned for February/March. The full dates are now
23.01 Leeds, Duchess of York
24.02 Milton Keynes, Pitz
25.02 London, The Garage
26.02 Harlow, Square
28.02 Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
29.02 Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
02.03 Sheffield, University
8th December 1999
So much news it's got it's own page, here.
November 1999
Recording is finished. Provisional plans for a few secret gigs have fallen few and hopefully, touring will begin in the new year.
1999
The Drum have been in the studio, writing, rehearsing and recording all year.
October 19th 1998
New tour dates have been announced. They are here and include a gig at Newcastle Riverside as part of Soundcity on October 25th.
October 3rd
The guys played at a festival in Sarajevo. We will hopefully have more information soon.
August 23rd
A note from Adam - "I would like you to know that I have just become a daddy.... July 25th, Tom Eliot Lee was born, weighing a magnificent 9lb 11 oz!!!!"
June 1st
The Drum are playing a number of gigs over the summer, including an acoustic gig on June 12th in Sheffield and the Phoenix festival. The full dates are up here.
The band are rehearsing for these gigs at the moment and also writing new material, with about 7 songs/nearly songs already well on the way.
February 9th
"Stop It All Adding Up" will be the next single.
It will be released on 13/04/98 and the tracks will include a remix by Dave Bascombe, "Guilty Deafness", "Wipeout" and "Baseball In The Dark" recorded live at the London ULU on the last tour.
February 9th
The dates for the March tour of the USA are here.
February 5th
New tour dates for the UK tour in April here.
January 14th 1998
China Drum will play a gig at the Paradiso Club in Amsterdam this Sunday (18th).
December 19th 1997
China Drum are playing Camden Palace in London on December the 23rd.
December 2nd
New tour dates for the European tour here.
November 6th
The Southampton date on Nov 26th has been moved to the Showbar in Bournemouth.
Apparently the PA in the Joiners has finally given up.