News & Rumors
(you decide which is which)

Monday, 18th August, 2008
9:21 am -	Ray joined the Kooks onstage at V Festival this past weekend, according to this NME article.
Friday, 15th August, 2008
8:43 am -	Mentioned last month but worth mentioning again: Ray is on the cover of the summer issue of Magnet magazine, with an 11-page article/interview covering his Kinks/solo career.
Thursday, 14th August, 2008
3:22 pm -	The Theatre Royal Stratford East is seeking donations to support the "Come Dancing" production. See the letter from Ray and donation form (PDF files). Major credit cards accepted. Also, a limited number of VIP table seats are available for each performance -- call the box office for tickets: 020 8534 0310.
3:19 pm -	"The World From My Window" will be re-aired on Australia's ABC network tomorrow (Aug. 15th).
Tuesday, 5th August, 2008
12:35 pm -	There's a page on the Fender web site on Ray Davies. Not much there at the moment, except for two nice photos in the Image Gallery section.
Friday, 1st August, 2008
3:44 pm -	The Marketing Assistant for the Theatre Royal Stratford East says that tickets for the Come Dancing musical are "going pretty fast."
Tuesday, 29th July, 2008
2:31 pm -	Here's another article about the Come Dancing musical, on the What's On Stage web site.
12:10 pm -	This article on the This Is London web site says that Ray will "star" in the Come Dancing musical.
9:57 am -	The Kinks top the list of Best Sibling Bands in a Rolling Stone reader poll.
Thursday, 24th July, 2008
4:15 pm -	There's a review of Ray's Anaheim concert on the OC Register web site.
4:04 pm -	Tickets for the "Come Dancing" musical are now on sale.
4:03 pm -	The current word is that Ray taped his appearance on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Monday, and it will air in a couple weeks.
8:51 am -	Dave Davies' web site has a page for Belly Up with the track list and some sound samples.
Tuesday, 22nd July, 2008
1:24 pm -	For whatever reason, Ray was not on the Late Late Show last night as previously rumored.
Friday, 18th July, 2008
10:25 am -	Ray will be on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Monday, July 21st at 12:35AM Eastern & Pacific time.
10:15 am -	There are two articles about Ray on the Edmonton Journal web site: a preview article and a review of Tuesday's performance.
10:11 am -	There's an article on Ray (a preview of tonight's performance) on the Portland Mercury web site.
9:55 am -	The Official Kinks Fan Club will have copies of Dave Davies' "Belly Up" CD for £12 inc. postage, with a limited number of signed copies for fan club members.
9:43 am -	There are three articles about Ray on the Calgary Herald web site: a review of Ray's Calgary show, an article about Ray and an article on Kinks cover songs.
9:07 am -	There's a review of Ray's Ottawa show on the Ottawa Citizen web site.
Wednesday, 16th July, 2008
4:49 pm -	Ray's "Come Dancing" musical will run at the Theatre Royal Stratford East from September 13th to October 25th, according to this article.
Tuesday, 15th July, 2008
8:47 am -	Dave Davies has a new live CD due out on August 1st: Belly Up!, which was recorded at the Belly Up Club in San Diego in 1997.
Monday, 14th July, 2008
9:31 am -	Ray is on the cover of Magnet magazine this month.
9:23 am -	There's an article on Year Long Disaster on Boston's Metro web site.
Thursday, 10th July, 2008
1:37 pm -	UK Kinks tribute band Kinda Kinks has several gigs scheduled this summer.
1:13 pm -	The current issue of Record Collector magazine has a small piece from Dave Davies on the influence of Bo Diddley on the Kinks' early music.
Tuesday, 8th July, 2008
11:11 am -	John Dalton is coming out of retirement briefly for a KOK gig in Sweden in September, according to his web site.
Friday, 4th July, 2008
6:42 pm -	Ray's new web site, www.raydavies.info, is now online.
8:07 am -	There's an article on Ray in the Calgary Herald.
Thursday, 3rd July, 2008
9:10 am -	According to this article on the Winnipeg Fold Festival web site, Ray will play a longer set there than originally planned.
Wednesday, 2nd July, 2008
3:56 pm -	I have the gig listed as "unconfirmed" on the Tour Dates page, but this article says Ray will be playing at the Azkena Rock Festival in Spain.
3:46 pm -	Ray is one of the judges for the 2008 International Songwriting Competition.
3:37 pm -	Portland, Oregon band Blue Skies For Black Hearts played "Stop Your Sobbing" at a live in-studio performance for Oregon Public Broadcasting, which you can listen to on opbmusic.org.
3:16 pm -	Culturespill.com has an article about the State of Confusion album.
3:14 pm -	Kurt Ackerman writes about Ray on his blog.
Wednesday, 25th June, 2008
3:00 pm -	The song "Lola" was featured on the TV show "In Plain Sight" on the USA Network on Sunday. It will be rebroadcast this Saturday, June 28 at 11a.m. EDT.
Monday, 23rd June, 2008
9:53 am -	There are photos from Ray's Hampton Court gigs on John Rahim's web site and on the Crouch End Festival Chorus facebook group (facebook account required).
Tuesday, 17th June, 2008
11:33 am -	There's an article on Dave Davies opening the summer fete in Devon on the This Is North Devon web site.
8:43 am -	There's a new Sony Ericsson ad running in the UK and Australia which uses the song "People Take Pictures Of Each Other".
Friday, 13th June, 2008
2:16 pm -	According to a note on Dave Davies' message board, you can win a chance to chat with Dave via telephone.
1:17 pm -	There's a new interview with John Dalton on the Hertfordshire Mercury web site.
Wednesday, 11th June, 2008
2:16 pm -	Ray has been made a patron of the Crouch End Festival Chorus, according to this article on the Hornsey & Crouch End Journal web site.
9:07 am -	Loser's Lounge will be having a tribute to the Kinks at Joe's Pub in NYC this weekend. Show times are: Thursday, June 12th at 9:30PM; Friday, June 13 at 7PM and 9:30PM; Saturday, June 1th at 7PM and 9:30PM.
9:04 am -	John Dalton has some photos of his May 31st "garden party" on his web site.
Monday, 9th June, 2008
3:30 pm -	Various bands will be playing songs from the VGPS album at Bourne & Hollingsworth in London tomorrow at 8PM. Check out the flyer.
3:26 pm -	There's an interview with Lana Davies (Dave Davies' daughter) on the PunkNews.org web site.
3:20 pm -	There's another article on the Kooks and recording their album at Konk Studios, on the Boston Globe web site.
3:16 pm -	There's a story about Ray's upcoming Hampton Court concerts on the Hornsey Journal web site.
9:27 am -	A DVD of the Kinks' performance on Beat Beat Beat (a German TV show) from 1966 is due for release in July. [The web site got some song titles wrong: "Oh Please" is really "Milk Cow Blues" and "I Feel Good" is "Till The End Of The Day".]
Wednesday, 4th June, 2008
1:07 pm -	Radio station WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut is airing their annual Kinks special on Saturday, June 21st from 18:00 to 22:00 EDT. Listen online at www.wpkn.org.
Monday, 2nd June, 2008
1:12 pm -	Ray attended John Dalton's 65th birthday party on Saturday (not the farewell gig the previous weekend) and sang You Really Got Me/All Day And All Of The Night with the Kast Off Kinks.
8:54 am -	In the June 12th issue of Rolling Stone, the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" is number 4 in their list of Top 100 Guitar Songs.
8:48 am -	There's an article on the Kooks and Konk Studios on the Toronto Sun web site.
Wednesday, 28th May, 2008
3:14 pm -	There's a restaurant review of the Clissold Arms on the ThisIsLondon.co.uk web site.
Tuesday, 27th May, 2008
1:10 pm -	There's a new interview with Karin Forsman (in Swedish) on the GT.se web site.
12:48 pm -	There's a review of the Kast Off Kinks farewell concert for John Dalton on Michael K. Bourdaghs' blog.
Saturday, 24th May, 2008
10:33 am -	Ray will be on the Jonnie Walker show on BBC Radio 2 tomorrow at 16:30, "to talk about his forthcoming concerts."
Friday, 23rd May, 2008
3:52 pm -	There will be a Kinks special on the Revolution Rock show on college radio station CJAM 91.5FM (Windsor/Detroit) next Wednesday, May 28th, 9-10:30 p.m. It will be posted as an MP3 file on the web site after it airs.
Thursday, 22nd May, 2008
10:25 am -	There's an interview with Ray Davies on the Relix Magazine web site.
Wednesday, 21st May, 2008
3:45 pm -	There will be a Kinks tribute concert in the south of France, near Cannes, on Saturday, July 5th, as a charity benefit. Check out the flyer.
3:30 pm -	Ray Davies is #13 in the list of top 50 British songwriters, according to the Telegraph.
Thursday, 15th May, 2008
1:20 pm -	You can vote for VGPS in a "best album of 1968" poll on the web site of the Danish Newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Wednesday, 14th May, 2008
1:45 pm -	According to this article in the North Devon Gazette, Dave Davies will be "opening a summer fete in the grounds of the Manor House Residential Home on June 7".
Monday, 12th May, 2008
3:03 pm -	There will be an interview with Ray Davies aired on XM Radio in three parts this week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern time.
Friday, 9th May, 2008
4:14 pm -	The May 2008 issue of Performing Songwriter (with Neil Diamond on the cover) has an interview with Ray Davies. You can read part of the article online.
Wednesday, 7th May, 2008
9:01 am -	The Kinky2 will be supporting the Kast Off Kinks at the special farewell gig for John Dalton, at the Civic Hall in Broxbourne on May 24th (the show is sold out, according to John Dalton's web site).
Tuesday, 29th April, 2008
4:47 pm -	A Kinks tribute night will be held at Les Saints in Montreal on Saturday, May 10th at 8PM with performances by several local bands. Check out the press release.
4:34 pm -	Steve Alleman interviews Tom Kitts about Tom's book on Ray Davies.
4:27 pm -	There's a review of Ray's Philly show on the Pop Matters web site.
Friday, 25th April, 2008
9:03 am -	There's a story in the Muswell Hill Journal about the possibility of having a plaque installed at the former Davies household at Denmark Terrace on Fortis Green.
Tuesday, 22nd April, 2008
4:34 pm -	Loser's Lounge will be doing a Kinks tribute at Joe's Pub in NYC in June.
4:10 pm -	Listen to an interview with Ray from the PBS radio show Sound Opinions.
4:08 pm -	Listen to the February interview with Ray on the web site of Toronto radio station Q107.
Friday, 11th April, 2008
4:48 pm -	There's a review of Ray's NYC concert on the Rolling Stone web site.
4:45 pm -	Ray will be interviewed on Out of the Box with Jonathan Clarke on NYC radio station Q104 this Sunday at 9 p.m.
4:41 pm -	There's a review of Ray's NYC concert on the Reuters web site.
4:29 pm -	Ray's NYC concert is reviewed on a couple of blogs: Dan Shaviro and Long Live the Village Green.
Tuesday, 8th April, 2008
11:05 am -	There's a review of Ray's Boston show on the WKBM blog.
11:03 am -	There's a review of Ray's Boston show on the Boston Globe web site. Also a brief interview.
10:59 am -	There's a review of Ray's Boston show (as an open letter to Dave Davies) on the Boston Herald web site.
Monday, 7th April, 2008
1:32 pm -	There's a review of Ray's Boston show on the Patriot Ledger web site.
1:31 pm -	There's a review of Ray's Philly show on the Philadelphia Inquirer web site.
1:30 pm -	Backstage Auctions is auctioning off the Kinks collection of the late Reggie Box, program director of WKLT radio in Michigan.
9:39 am -	Mike A. has two extra tickets to see Ray tomorrow at the Beacon in NYC -- row V in the orchestra section. He would like to sell them at cost ($223.95). Contact him at mikea.fpg@verizon.net.
Saturday, 5th April, 2008
9:07 am -	The Peterborough Evening Telegraph is looking for photos of the Kinks performing at the Lansbury Club there.
9:03 am -	There a review of Ray's Toronto show on the Globe and Mail web site.
Friday, 4th April, 2008
1:09 pm -	There's a review of Ray's Toronto concert on the Canoe.ca web site.
1:09 pm -	There's an interview with Ray in the New Jersey Star-Ledger.
1:02 pm -	There's an interview with Ray in the Philadelphia Daily News.
Thursday, 3rd April, 2008
9:05 am -	Reminder: Tonight at 7pm, Tom Kitts will be discussing his book and the work of Ray Davies at the Barnes & Noble, 1805 Walnut Street, Rittenhouse Square, Downtown Philadelphia. All are invited.
9:00 am -	The Kinky2 were on Dutch TV in December. You can watch the performance on YouTube.
8:58 am -	There's a review of Working Man's Café on the hour.ca web site.
8:56 am -	The article about Dave Davies in Goldmine magazine is online at GoldmineMag.com.
8:55 am -	Ray did a session for Sound Opinions in Chicago on Tuesday. No word on a broadcast date yet, but there are photos on flickr.com.
Wednesday, 2nd April, 2008
8:54 am -	There's an interview with Ray on The Phoenix web site.
8:53 am -	And yet another review of Ray's Chicago gig on the Daily Herald web site.
8:47 am -	There's a review of Ray's San Francisco gig on the Crawdaddy web site.
8:45 am -	There's another review of Ray's Chicago gig on the Sun Times web site.
8:43 am -	There's a review of Ray's Byron Bay gig (with photos) on L.M. Noonan's blog.
8:41 am -	There's a review of Ray's Chicago gig on the Chicago Tribune web site.
8:39 am -	There's an interview with Ray in the Boston Herald.
Monday, 31st March, 2008
4:32 pm -	There's a review of Ray's LA concert on the LA Times web site.
3:03 pm -	There's a review of Ray's San Francisco concert on the Rolling Stone web site.
3:02 pm -	There's a review of Ray's LA concert on the Variety web site.
3:00 pm -	There's an interview with Ray on the LA Times web site.
2:59 pm -	There's an interview with Ray on the Music.aol.ca web site.
2:58 pm -	There's an article about "Waterloo Sunset" on the Times Online web site.
2:43 pm -	There's a review of Ray's San Francisco concert on the Inside Bay Area web site.
Friday, 28th March, 2008
9:59 am -	There's an interview with Ray on the Spinner web site.
9:58 am -	Ray was a guest DJ on All Songs Considered on NPR yesterday.
9:55 am -	There's an interview with Ray on the San Francisco Examiner web site.
9:55 am -	There's an interview with Ray on the CNN.com web site.
Wednesday, 26th March, 2008
1:38 pm -	There's another article in the Muswell Hill Journal about the Clissold Arms.
Tuesday, 25th March, 2008
4:28 pm -	Tom Kitts will be reading from his book on Ray Davies at Barnes & Noble, 176-60 Union Turnpike, Fresh Meadows, Queens, this Saturday, March 29, at 2pm, and at Barnes & Noble, 1805 Walnut Street, Rittenhouse Square, Downtown Philadelphia, on Thursday, April 3, at 7:00pm. After a brief reading, Tom will take questions and comments.
9:07 am -	You can read Jesse Walker's review of Thomas Kitts' book on the Reason Magazine web site.
8:59 am -	There's a blog on CNN.com discussing the possibility of a Kinks reunion. It also says to watch for an interview with Ray on CNN.com next week.
8:54 am -	There's a review of Ray's East Coast Blues and Roots Festival performance on the NEWS.com.au web site.
8:51 am -	The Kinks are on the cover of the latest issue of Goldmine magazine, with an article about Dave Davies inside.
Friday, 21st March, 2008
9:18 am -	The full 30-minute interview with Ray Davies from the 7.30 Report is now available as a video podcast.
Thursday, 20th March, 2008
2:07 pm -	The Ray Davies interview from the 7:30 Report is now online at www.abc.net.au.
8:46 am -	There's an interview with Ray on The Australian web site.
Wednesday, 19th March, 2008
9:41 pm -	Ray will be on the 7.30 Report on Australia's ABC TV, Thursday night.
Monday, 17th March, 2008
10:37 am -	Matt Davies' blog discusses the Kinks memorabilia that was/is at the Clissold Arms.
Tuesday, 11th March, 2008
9:04 am -	Maryann Price has re-recorded "Scrapheap City" for her latest album The Real Deal. You can hear a sample on her web site.
Monday, 10th March, 2008
10:55 am -	There's a review of WMC on the Hartford Courant web site.
10:46 am -	The latest issue of Rolling Stone (with Jack Johnson on the cover) has a fairly long interview with Ray.
Friday, 7th March, 2008
1:15 pm -	As part of the National Conference of the Popular and American Culture Associations in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 19, from 6:30-8:00pm, there will be a session entitled.The Beatles and The Kinks. There will be four fifteen-minute presentations: "The Beatles and the Kinks: Rock-and-Roll Rivalry in the Mid 1960s" by Tom Kitts, "Orwellian Echoes in the Songs of Ray Davies" by Joe Allegretti, "Thinking the Unthinkable About John Lennon: Part II" by Steve Hamelman, and "Getting Back: Reconsidering the Beatles' Let It Be Era" by Kenneth Womack. If this is the only session you are attending, there is no need to check in at the registration desk or to register for the conference. Those interested should go directly to Golden Gate Hall, Salon C2, in the San Francisco Marriott, 55 Fourth Street.
Thursday, 6th March, 2008
10:49 am -	There's another interview with Ray on the Chart Attack web site.
10:41 am -	There's a new interview with Ray on the Globe And Mail web site.
10:10 am -	There's an article on The New York Times blogs about Ray Davies as a poet.
Wednesday, 5th March, 2008
11:36 am -	There will be a Kinks tribute show this Friday at Elevens in Northampton, Mass., featuring 13 local bands and artists.
11:29 am -	There's an article in the Muswell Hill Journal about the reopening of the Clissold Arms.
11:15 am -	You can read Chris Kocher's review of WMC on the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin web site.
Monday, 3rd March, 2008
10:22 am -	Not Kinks-related, but I wanted to make note of the passing last week of Mike Smith, keyboardist and lead singer of the Dave Clark Five. VH1 Classic (the US TV channel - I'm not sure about other countries) will be airing a tribute to Mike Smith tonight at 11pm EST.
Sunday, 2nd March, 2008
8:16 am -	Sun Media has published a Q&A with Ray and another interview.
Saturday, 1st March, 2008
10:14 am -	Just a reminder that Ray will be on the RTÉ music show Other Voices on Wednesday, March 5. The show will be available to watch online after the broadcast.
10:13 am -	You can watch Jim Smart's video from Ray's 1998 songwriting course on YouTube.
Friday, 29th February, 2008
3:51 pm -	Today's broadcast of Fresh Air on NPR featured Ray being interviewed and is available to listen to online.
10:35 am -	The Beacon Theatre website advises that, on the first day of sale, tickets will not be sold at the box offices. Tickets may only be purchased on the first day of sale from Ticketmaster, either online or by calling 212 307-1000.
4:25 am -	Reuters has a news article on Working Man's Café charting.
4:18 am -	There's more information on pre-sale tickets for Ray's Chicago and New York concerts from Ticket Horde.
Thursday, 28th February, 2008
8:15 pm -	According to this press release, The Clissold Arms will officially re-open on March 7 and will have 'a stunning collection of black and white photographs of The Kinks' on display.
6:52 pm -	AZ Central has a review of Working Man's Café.
2:31 pm -	Working Man’s Café entered the Top Independent Albums Chart at number 20.
1:11 pm -	Codes for tomorrow's pre-sale for tickets to Ray's Chicago show are available from The Chicago Theatre and 93XRT.
11:57 am -	Listeners to Q104.3 will have the opportunity to purchase pre-sale tickets for Ray's New York concert.
10:27 am -	Pre-sale tickets for Ray's Chicago and New York shows will go on sale from 10.00am on Friday, 29 February. Tickets go on general sale for most of the North American shows on Saturday, 1 March and Sunday, 2 March. More information is available on the Ray Davies message board and from Ticketmaster and Live Nation.
Wednesday, 27th February, 2008
8:00 pm -	Chicago residents can enter a 93XRT giveaway to win tickets to Ray's concert at the Chicago Theatre on April 1st.
12:12 pm -	Working Man’s Café debuted at number 140 on the US album charts, according to this Rolling Stone article.
9:57 am -	The Clissold Arms has now re-opened, however, only a small number of Kinks items remain on public display at present.
Tuesday, 26th February, 2008
6:39 pm -	Chart Attack has a review of Working Man's Café.
3:22 pm -	Breck Road Lovers quotes Adam Ficek as saying that Ray will no longer be appearing with Babyshambles at the NME Awards in London this Thursday.
9:26 am -	Second Debut also has reports on Ray's Toronto performance.
4:11 am -	More reviews of Ray's Toronto appearance on Thick Specs and For the "records.
Monday, 25th February, 2008
11:42 am -	MSN Entertainment also has a review of Working Man's Café.
Saturday, 23rd February, 2008
11:26 am -	Chromewaves also has a report on Ray's Toronto appearance.
5:14 am -	There's a review of Ray's performance at the Toronto HMV Superstore on the It's Not The Band I Hate, It's Their Fans blog.
5:11 am -	There's a Ray interview and feature in the new issue of Rolling Stone.
Friday, 22nd February, 2008
2:36 pm -	Ray will be doing a live interview and possible acoustic performance today on Toronto radio station Q107 at around 3:20 p.m. (EST)
1:35 pm -	The guitarist accompanying Ray during the promo appearances this week is Bill Shanley.
12:39 pm -	New interviews with Ray: Billboard.com Toronto's NOW Magazine
9:36 am -	Just a reminder about Ray being on CBC Radio One today at 2 p.m. (EST). You can also listen to this (in North America) on Sirius Channel 137 at 12 p.m. and 8 p.m., and it should be available as a podcast after the broadcast.
9:28 am -	The Regis and Kelly web site now has the video of Ray and Bill playing "Working Man's Café" .
9:23 am -	The Rolling Stone web site has a longish article called The Kinks: The Essential Album-By-Album Guide.
9:18 am -	Yet even more reviews: United Press International Baton Rouge's The Advocate metacritic.com (summaries of several reviews) Yale Daily News LoHud.com The New Zealand Herald Kansas City Star All Music Guide The Canadian Press
Thursday, 21st February, 2008
12:58 pm -	You can watch Ray's performance on Letterman on YouTube, as well as Regis and Kelly: part one and part two.
9:09 am -	Ray will be doing an in-store acoustic performance at the HMV Superstore in Toronto (333 Yonge St.) tomorrow (Fri., Feb. 22nd) at 6:00 p.m. I'm told there will also be an autograph session afterwards.
9:03 am -	Ray will be on Canadian CBC Radio One tomorrow on the "Q" program at 2 p.m. EST (repeated at 10 p.m.). You can listen online at www.cbc.ca/radio/.
9:01 am -	Even more reviews: Philadelphia Daily News Tampa Tribune Cleveland's The Plain Dealer

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