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AIRPLAY IN SPAIN AND SCOTLAND
14th March 2008
In Spain, the track "Dot The i"" was played on the Plastico Elastico show on Onda Madrid 103.1FM on 9th March.

In Scotland, Black Diamond FM played "Dot The i" on March 6th and Moray Firth FM's Don Chisolm show played "Back Door Key" on March 9th.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK

updated 11th March 2008
"Dot The i" has been made album of the week on BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal's Rapal programme. A track from the album was played every night from March 3-6. The show can be heard on 103-105 FM in Scotland or online. The tracks "Rings Of The Tree", "Crazy Conversation", "Back Door Key" and "Dot The i" were all played. "Rings Of The Tree" was also played on 28th Feb and "Crazy Conversation" was aired again on March 11th.

AIRPLAY IN SPAIN
3rd March 2008
The track "Black Book" was played on the Plastico Elastico show on Onda Madrid 103.1FM on 24th Feb. "Rewind" was played on the same show on 1st March.

AIRPLAY ON THE BBC
20th February 2008
BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal's Rapal programme played "Only For Yourself" on 19th Feb.

ALBUM LAUNCH TICKETS AND HALF PRICE ALBUM OFFER
18th February 2008
Tickets for the launch night of Dropkick's new album "Dot The i" can be bought now for £5 by clicking the button below. Included with the ticket will be a voucher entitling you to purchase an album on the night for half price.

AIRPLAY IN SPAIN
17th February 2008

The track "15th December" was played on the Plastico Elastico show on Onda Madrid 103.1FM on 2nd Feb. "Only For Yourself" was played on the same show on 9th Feb as was "Give It Back" on 16th Feb.

INTERNATIONAL POP OVERTHROW FESTIVAL
1st Feruary 2008

Dropkick will be playing 2 gigs at the IPO festival in Liverpool. The times are still to be confirmed but the gigs will be over the weekend of 24/25 May and one gig will be at the Cavern Club.

 

NEW ALBUM
1st February 2008

Dropkick's new album "Dot The i" will be released on 29th March 2008. To make sure you get your copy before the release date, you can pre-order the CD now for £7.00 (including postage to anywhere) by clicking the button below. The album will also be available from most download stores including iTunes, Napster and eMusic.
You can listen to 6 of the 12 tracks now by going to the band's Myspace page.
The entire album will also be streamable on Last.fm very soon.

Pre-order CD now - only £7.00 (including postage)

 
 

AIRPLAY IN USA
Posted 16th January 2008
On 11th Jan 2008, the Awful Snacks podcast from Colorado, USA played Dropkick's song "Gary Larsson Cartoon".

NEW REVIEWS
Posted 5th January 2008
"Scampi For Xmas" has just been given a 5 star review from www.bluesbunny.com. According to them, Dropkick "skilfully disguise festive season loneliness as a witty ditty ... a clever little song". The full review is here.
Bluesbunny also reviewed "Killing Time EP", saying that Dropkick "make a kind of sweet, harmonious popular music that gladdens the heart". The full review is here. They have also listed Dropkick's track "Avenues" as their top song of 2007. See here for more.

SCAMPI FOR XMAS
Posted 24th December 2007
Dropkick's new Xmas song "Scampi For Xmas" is available for free download now. Go to Last FM or Myspace to listen and download. Also available is Dropkick's perennial festive freebee "Writing To Santa".
"Scampi For Xmas" has already been aired 4 times by BBC Radio Scotland: Vic Galloway show (17th, and 24th Dec), Vic's Most Wanted (21st Dec) and the Janice Forsyth show (22nd Dec). Moray Firth FM's Don Chisolm show also played it on 16th Dec and Deveron FM has been playing the track thoughout the festive period. And if that wasn't enough, SoupyGato, Three From Leith, Dalecast and the BBC Introducing podcasts have all aired the song. So maybe miracles do happen at Christmas...
"Writing To Santa" also got an airing on Don Chisolm's Moray Firth Radio show on 23rd Dec, the Random Fandom podcast (14th Dec) and A Frog's Life Acoustic Podcast (12th Dec).


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