The gang are all geared up to hit London town on the end of year tour. The boys will be onstage in there spiritual home of the Borderline in Soho at 9:15pm. Tickets are still available from Ticketweb and SeeTickets. Have a great night if you’re going.

Don’t forget you can also follow the tour by reading Ian’s tour diary in the forum.

The Tuesday night tour show in Wolves will double up as a birthday party for Amsterdam guitarist and main artery Johnny Barlow.

If your going, get the boy a drink!

The long-awaited headlining tour to celebrate Amsterdam’s brilliant year will begin in Gateshead this Friday. Tickets for all the shows are still available and the 6/7-piece Amsterdam tour de force promise you a feast of passion and entertainment. Buy tickets now

Also you can tune in to City Talk on Saturday morning to hear Ian being interviewed by Britain’s best journalist Brian Reade from the Daily Mirror. Ian will be discussing Amsterdam’s placing in the all-time top 50 Merseyside albums so tune in to find out if the boys made it at 10:30am!

Ian will play a solo show as very special guest of the brilliant Irish singer Damien Dempsey on Halloween night, 31 October. The show is at the New Picket in Liverpool and is nearly sold out.

Also Ian appeared on BBC TV last week,you can watch again at bbc.co.uk.

The late John Peel is to have a train named after him – and Ian has been asked to perform Does This Train Stop on Merseyside? at the naming ceremony.

Speaking highly of the Amsterdam single from 2005, Peel’s widow Sheila Ravenscroft said: “He wasn’t capable of playing it without crying. If he played it on the radio he’d have to put something on straight afterwards because he wouldn’t be able to speak.”

The naming ceremony will take place at Liverpool South Parkway Interchange in Garston.

Read more in this BBC news article.