Amsterdam will play a short burst of dates with the reformed soul-pop rockers the Blow Monkeys in early September. The Blow Monkeys were a very successful pop band in the late eighties and are back together for the first time in years.

1 September Newcastle Academy
2 September Sheffield Academy
3 September Cambridge Junction
4 September Bristol Academy
6 September Frodsham Festival (with the Automatic)
12 September Holmfirth Picturedome
13 September Leicester Princess Charlotte

Amsterdam will be playing some dates in other towns and cities of their own later on in the year including the biggest Liverpool show yet to celebrate what has been a brilliant year already!

Also this Thursday night Ian will take part in the Beatle Day Charity concert singing Back in the USSR at the huge new Echo Arena. Other performers include John Power, Ian Mcnabb, Ricky Tomlinson, Andy McCluskey and many more.

A 7-piece Amsterdam played what Ian described as ‘probably the best show of my entire career’ on Sunday afternoon to a crowded Acoustica tent. The boys stormed through a 10-song set and finished with an impromptu Irsh dance from flute player Eimear.

The final song Name and number lasted for about 10 minutes as the band took the roof off the place.

Band blogs concerning the event will be online in the next few days. Photos can be seen at myspace.com/amsterdamhq (MySpace login required).

The gang will be onstage at 9:15pm this coming Friday night in London town. Tickets are still available from blowupmetro.com and support on the night comes from the wonderful Colourkenisis.

The great Glastonbury adventure takes place at 1:15pm on Sunday afternoon in the Acoustica tent. Make sure you get along and cheer the boys on.

Apart from the world famous Glastonbury festival, Amsterdam will be playing two other festivals this summer.

First the gang will be playing in Cambridgeshire at the Fordham Festival on Sunday 10th August.

The other is the Frodsham Festival at Lady Heyes Craft Centre, Cheshire on Saturday 6 September. Other bands include the Automatic.

Meanwhile, in the week prior to Glastonbury, Ian heads to Spain to play a solo show at the Blanco Y Negro bar in Nerja on the Costa del Sol on Tuesday 15 July.

Ian’s special solo show at the Philharmonic is now sold out.

Amsterdam lead singer Ian Prowse is to play a one off one man show at the Rodewald suite in Liverpool’s Philharmonic hall.

The evening is the first time ever that Ian has performed a full show alone and he promises an evening of songs spanning his entire career and ‘a chance to play some of the tunes I could never get away with in the bluster of a full scale Amsterdam show’.

The show is on Friday 18 of July and is almost sold out but some tickets are still available from liverpoolphil.com.