LIVE DATES:

02 Mar - Barrowlands (with The Libertines), Glasgow
03 Mar - Rocket, Leeds
04 Mar - Little Civic, Wolverhampton
05 Mar - Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff
07 Mar - Zodiac, Oxford
08 Mar - Free Butt, Brighton
09 Mar - Fez, Sheffield
11 Mar - King Tut's, Glasgow
12 Mar - Zanzibar, Liverpool
13 Mar – Empire, Middlesborough
14 Mar – Venue, Edinburgh
15 Mar – University, Newcastle
17 Mar - Night & Day, Manchester
18 Mar - 100 Club, London

To date, Eastern Lane have played no more than a handful of gigs. Of those, all save for one has been in Berwick. The last was opening for the Libertines at Glasgow's King Tuts - a sunday evening; early doors; a partisan mob baying for blood - hardly makes for the most auspicious of occassions to put on one's rock n roll finery. The songs unwind, contort and fill King Tuts. Derek, a big guy with a big heart on his sleeve, cuts loose with the guitar. His air and demeanour are life-threatening. He carries the music forward like Van the Man's younger brother. Ten songs and it's all over. The battle has been won.