14 July 2005 |
BBC Raw Talent (Hull, England) |
3 |
-- |
2 September 2005 |
Hi Fi Club (Leeds, England) |
6 |
-- |
2 October 2005 |
ITC Star and Garter (Manchester, England) |
3 |
-- |
23 April 2006 |
Barfly (Glasgow, Scotland) |
2 |
-- |
29 April 2006 |
Drum and Monkey (Ipswich, England) |
2 |
-- |
3 May 2006 |
Barfly (Cardiff, Wales) |
2 |
-- |
9 May 2006 |
Barfly (Birmingham, England) |
2 |
-- |
25 May 2006 |
Little Civic (Wolverhampton, England) |
2 |
-- |
29 May 2006 |
6 Music (BBC, England) |
2 |
Acoustic |
3 June 2006 |
Le Cafe de la Danse (Paris, France) |
3 |
-- |
4 June 2006 |
Le Sirius (Lyon, France) |
2 |
-- |
8 June 2006 |
Eve (Grenoble, France) |
2 |
-- |
28 June 2006 |
Maida Vale Studios (London, England) |
1 |
-- |
19 July 2006 |
Sunflower Lounge (Birmingham, England) |
2 |
-- |
29 July 2006 |
Across the Tracks (Leeds, England) |
1 |
-- |
12 August 2006 |
Tartan Heart Festival (Inverness, Scotland) |
2 |
-- |
23 August 2006 |
Cockpit (Leeds, England) |
2 |
-- |
4 September 2006 |
Musician (Leicester, England) |
2 |
-- |
27 September 2006 |
Rotown (Rotterdam, Holland) |
3 |
-- |
28 September 2006 |
Paradiso (Amsterdam, Holland) |
3 |
-- |
29 September 2006 |
Underground Festival (Amsterdam, Holland) |
2 |
-- |
30 September 2006 |
Mudd Club (Berlin, Germany) |
3 |
-- |
5 October 2006 |
B72 (Vienna, Austria) |
3 |
-- |
10 October 2006 |
Le Cri de la Mouette (Toulouse, France) |
1 |
-- |
11 October 2006 |
Le Son'Art (Bordeaux, France) |
3 |
-- |
12 October 2006 |
Le Glaz'Art (Paris, France) |
3 |
-- |
14 October 2006 |
Junktion 7 (Nottingham, England) |
3 |
-- |
15 October 2006 |
Fibbers (York, England) |
3 |
-- |
18 October 2006 |
Barfly (Cardiff, Wales) |
3 |
-- |
19 October 2006 |
Barfly (Birmingham, England) |
3 |
-- |
20 October 2006 |
Barfly (Glasgow, Scotland) |
3 |
-- |
22 October 2006 |
Brudenell Social Club (Leeds, England) |
3 |
-- |
29 October 2006 |
Night and Day (Manchester, England) |
3 |
-- |
23 February 2007 |
Music in Mind Festival (Brugge, Belgium) |
2 |
-- |
14 March 2007 |
Emo's (Austin, USA) |
2 |
-- |
28 March 2007 |
Cockpit (Leeds, England) |
2 |
-- |
29 March 2007 |
Dingwalls (Camden, England) |
2 |
-- |
19 April 2007 |
Dublin Castle (London, England) |
3 |
-- |
18 May 2007 |
Great Escape Festival (Brighton, England) |
2 |
-- |
22 June 2007 |
Faversham (Leeds, England) |
1 |
-- |
7 July 2007 |
Cactus Festival (Brugge, Belgium) |
6 |
-- |
20 July 2007 |
Italia Wave Festival (Florence, Italy) |
2 |
-- |
17 August 2007 |
Off Festival (Myslowice, Poland) |
2 |
-- |
8 September 2007 |
Mad Dogs and Englishmen Festival (Milton Keynes, England) |
3 |
-- |
12 September 2007 |
Cavern (Exeter, England) |
6 |
-- |
17 September 2007 |
Barfly (Birmingham, England) |
2 |
-- |
19 September 2007 |
Academy 3 (Manchester, England) |
2 |
-- |
20 September 2007 |
Sugarmill (Stoke, England) |
2 |
-- |
22 September 2007 |
Fibbers (York, England) |
6 |
-- |
23 September 2007 |
Academy 2 (Newcastle, England) |
8 |
-- |
24 September 2007 |
The Tunnels (Aberdeen, England) |
1 |
-- |
26 September 2007 |
King Tut's (Glasgow, Scotland) |
3 |
-- |
3 October 2007 |
Scala (London, England) |
2 |
-- |
4 October 2007 |
Arts Centre (Colchester, England) |
3 |
-- |
5 October 2007 |
Arts Centre (Norwich, England) |
7 |
-- |
14 October 2007 |
The Middle East Upstairs (Cambridge, USA) |
2 |
-- |
17 October 2007 |
KEXP Session (New York, USA) |
2 |
-- |
31 October 2007 |
Fleche D'or (Paris, France) |
2 |
-- |
2 November 2007 |
Le Cri de la Mouette (Toulouse, France) |
7 |
-- |
3 November 2007 |
Moby Dick (Madrid, Spain) |
8 |
-- |
4 November 2007 |
La Apolo (Barcelona, Spain) |
2 |
-- |
6 November 2007 |
Eve (Grenoble, France) |
2 |
-- |
7 November 2007 |
Casa 139 (Milan, Italy) |
4 |
-- |
8 November 2007 |
Circola Degli Artisti (Rome, Italy) |
6 |
-- |
9 November 2007 |
Centro Stabile di Cultura (Vicenza, Italy) |
6 |
-- |
10 November 2007 |
Spazio 211 (Turin, Italy) |
2 |
-- |
11 November 2007 |
Hafenneipe (Zurich, Switzerland) |
7 |
-- |
13 November 2007 |
Ampere (Munich, Germany) |
2 |
-- |
14 November 2007 |
Star Club (Dresden, Germany) |
7 |
-- |
15 November 2007 |
Knust (Hamburg, Germany) |
2 |
-- |
16 November 2007 |
Gebaude 9 (Koln, Germany) |
3 |
-- |
17 November 2007 |
Lido (Berlin, Germany) |
3 |
-- |
19 November 2007 |
Rust (Copehagen, Denmark) |
3 |
-- |
20 November 2007 |
Debaser (Malmo, Denmark) |
6 |
-- |
21 November 2007 |
Pusterviksbaren (Gothenburg, Sweden) |
2 |
-- |
22 November 2007 |
Debaser (Stockholm, Sweden) |
2 |
-- |
24 November 2007 |
Crossing Borders Festival (Hague, Holland) |
2 |
-- |
25 November 2007 |
Ekko (Utrecht, Netherlands) |
9 |
-- |
26 November 2007 |
Botanique (Brussels, Belgium) |
2 |
-- |
25 January 2008 |
Gagarin 205 (Athens, Greece) |
2 |
-- |
8 April 2008 |
Nouveau Casino (Paris, France) |
2 |
-- |
13 April 2008 |
B72 (Vienna, Austria) |
7 |
-- |
15 April 2008 |
Brotfabrik (Frankfurt, Germany) |
2 |
-- |
17 April 2008 |
Rotown (Rotterdam, Holland) |
3 |
-- |
19 April 2008 |
Polsslag Festiva (Hasselt, Belgium) |
3 |
-- |
21 April 2008 |
Barfly (Brighton, England) |
2 |
-- |
22 April 2008 |
Bush Hall (London, England) |
2 |
-- |
24 April 2008 |
Zodiac (Oxford, England) |
3 |
-- |
28 April 2008 |
Library (Lancaster, England) |
2 |
-- |
30 April 2008 |
Road House (Manchester, England) |
3 |
-- |
1 May 2008 |
Brudenell Social Club (Leeds, England) |
3 |
-- |
10 May 2008 |
Crawdaddy (Dublin, Ireland) |
3 |
-- |
30 May 2008 |
Immergut Festival (Neustrelitz, Germany) |
1 |
-- |
21 June 2008 |
The Library (Leeds, England) |
2 |
-- |
30 August 2008 |
Tan Hill Inn (Tan Hill, England) |
4 |
-- |
24 September 2008 |
Club Fandango @ 229 (London, England) |
2 |
-- |
16 October 2008 |
Bucks University Student Union (High Wycombe, England) |
2 |
-- |
23 November 2008 |
Gagarin 205 (Athens, Greece) |
12 |
1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener |
27 November 2008 |
Muziekcentrum TRIX (Antwerp, Belgium) |
3 |
-- |
28 November 2008 |
Pretty Vacant Club (Düsseldorf, Germany) |
2 |
-- |
29 November 2008 |
Waschhaus (Potsdam, Germany) |
7 |
-- |
30 November 2008 |
Piwnica 21 (Poznań, Poland) |
2 |
-- |
2 December 2008 |
Perron55 (Venlo, Netherlands) |
2 |
-- |
3 December 2008 |
Paradiso (Amsterdam, Holland) |
2 |
-- |
4 December 2008 |
Verso (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) |
2 |
-- |
6 December 2008 |
Arts Centre (Norwich, England) |
2 |
-- |
7 December 2008 |
Lousiana (Bristol, England) |
2 |
-- |
10 December 2008 |
93 Feet East (London, England) |
2 |
-- |
11 December 2008 |
Brudenell Social Club (Leeds, England) |
2 |
-- |
13 December 2008 |
Ruby Lounge (Manchester, England) |
2 |
-- |
14 December 2008 |
Dexters (Dundee, Scotland) |
2 |
-- |
15 December 2008 |
King Tut's (Glasgow, Scotland) |
2 |
-- |
16 December 2008 |
The End (Newcastle, England) |
6 |
-- |
22 February 2009 |
Ancienne Belgique (Brussels, Belgium) |
3 |
-- |
23 February 2009 |
Ancienne Belgique (Brussels, Belgium) |
1 |
-- |
24 February 2009 |
Paradiso (Amsterdam, Holland) |
3 |
-- |
26 February 2009 |
Docks (Hamburg, Germany) |
1 |
-- |
27 February 2009 |
Columbiahalle (Berlin, Germany) |
2 |
-- |
2 March 2009 |
Tonhalle (München, Germany) |
3 |
-- |
30 April 2009 |
Luminaire (London, England) |
2 |
-- |
1 May 2009 |
Classic Grand (Hinterland Festival) (Glasgow, Scotland) |
4 |
-- |
2 May 2009 |
Cockpit (Leeds, England) |
3 |
-- |
3 May 2009 |
Night and Day (Manchester, England) |
1 |
-- |
16 May 2009 |
Great Escape Festival (Brighton, England) |
3 |
-- |
14 October 2009 |
Barfly (Liverpool, England) |
6 |
-- |
16 October 2009 |
Cockpit (Leeds, England) |
8 |
-- |
21 October 2009 |
Bullingdon (Oxford, England) |
4 |
-- |
22 October 2009 |
Highbury Garage (London, England) |
4 |
-- |
23 October 2009 |
Hare and Hounds (Birmingham, England) |
4 |
-- |
Information:
A Rook House For Bobby remembers one of the finest chess players of all time American Bobby Fischer.
Born March 9, 1943, Fischer was in 1972 the first American to win the FIDE World Chess Championship. His matches with the great Russian Chess players of the time were seen as a battle between the East and West and he started a major boom in chess playing in the USA becoming an overnight celebrity.
A ROOK HOUSE FOR BOBBY charts perhaps his most famous match the "Revenge Match of the 20th Century" in 1992. After not competing for 20 years Fischer came out of "retirement" to challenge former opponent Spassky. In the original match in 1972 Fischer lost the first two games, the first on a blunder, the second by forfeit when he refused to play his game. It seemed that Fischer was going to forfeit the entire match until Spassky intervened surprisingly, and yielded to Fischer's demands to move the next game to a back room, away from the cameras. After this controversial incident, Fischer proceeded to win seven of the next 19 games, losing only one and drawing 11, for a final score of 12.5 - 8.5, to win against Spassky.
The Rematch was set to take place in Yugoslavia despite a strict UN embargo which included forbidding sporting events. The United States Treasury department informed Fischer, before the match, that his participation was against the law, and, following the match, obtained an arrest warrant for him. Fischer won the match, 10 wins to 5, with 15 draws.
A Unique and colourful if somewhat insane man Fischer still claims to the day to be the World Chess Champion as he has never been beaten.
His horrible anti-semitic views led to him applauding the september 11th attacks and denying the holocaust.
The title of the song apparently comes from his alleged desire to live in a rook (castle) shaped house. For more, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer .
