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Five bad days on the bounce: Powter tours

Man with bobbing head wrapped in a hat Daniel Powter is to embark upon his first UK tour after shifting 220,000 copies of his debut album in Britain alone. What's wrong with you people?

'Bad Day', his breakthrough single, stayed in the UK's top 20 for a crazy 14 weeks, suggesting that not only are this country's middle-aged masses a bunch of MOR-munching morons, but that the nation's single-buying youth are also tasteless fuckwits.

Idiots! Go to these shows! (£15 London, £12.50 elsewhere)

December
18th Birmingham Academy 2
19th London Islington Academy
20th Manchester Academy 3
21st Glasgow King Tuts
23rd Dublin The Village

Seriously, kids: Crazy Frog is a more credible artist than this guy. Just stay away from the scary man in the hat...

• Who is Daniel Powter?

  14 weeks! i've never haerd of the fucker....

  fullerov | 28 Nov '05, 11:53 | Reply | X

• but

  nowhere near bristol or cardiff!
  oh, now i'm sad.

  fishplums | 28 Nov '05, 11:57 | Reply | X

• i don't know what you're on about diver

  powter is the bastion of new music.

  Panic @fishplums | 28 Nov '05, 12:12 | Reply | X

• i know neither

  powter, nor bastion.

  waves @Panic | 28 Nov '05, 12:26 | Reply | X

• Powter

  is Bryan Adams with a piano.

  brusma | 28 Nov '05, 13:09 | Reply | X

• Crazy Frog

  Should join Gorillaz, by the way.

  brusma @brusma | 28 Nov '05, 13:10 | Reply | X

• For the uninitiated...

  I have to listen to radio 1 at work. put simply, this guy is just a whingey fuck with a silly hat. Never ceases to amaze me how a bit of publicity makes the single buying public lap up shit songs.

  jaggysnake7 | 28 Nov '05, 18:24 | Reply | X

• as no one else has said it yet...

  DANIEL POWTER IS PROPER WALSH!

  lacey | 28 Nov '05, 19:06 | Reply | X

• Still..

  ..everytime this is played on the radio, you've got to be optimistic and praise that at least it's not James Blunt..

  CosmeticPolemic | 28 Nov '05, 19:14 | Reply | X

• no no NO

  he's actually worse than james blunt.

  [i know that's hard to get one's head around, but really, he is.]

  -gen- @CosmeticPolemic | 28 Nov '05, 19:49 | Reply | X

• Knowledgeable Browno

  Bastion's good. He's kinda like Lee Rogers. (If you didn't get that, you'll have to go a few pages back in the music forum).

  Browno @waves | 29 Nov '05, 00:59 | Reply | X

• Ive never

  heard of this guy either....its probably one of the songs where my brain screams 'turn over, for the love of your own sanity' after hearing like two notes

  woeful_spirit | 29 Nov '05, 09:39 | Reply | X

• sand

  How much does he look like Wolverine there?

  tom_edwards @woeful_spirit | 29 Nov '05, 12:03 | Reply | X

• Hey Hey Hey...

  You cannot say that the oh so aptly named Powter is worse than THE CUNT. His songs at least make sense, lyrically. They may have all the artistic prowess of a cat's scrotum, but at least he's writing about something. I've been subjected to THE CUNT too much to think that anything, bar bloody anything, is worse than him.

  jaggysnake7 | 29 Nov '05, 21:25 | Reply | X

• in the photo

  he looks like hes been bummed.

  shucks @jaggysnake7 | 30 Nov '05, 20:19 | Reply | X

• Blunted

  The missus acquired the Blunt album - inexplicably liked it until his tour de farce 'Chocolate' a reprise of the famous Cadbury's Flake advert. Fucking awful, and I don't say that lightly. Put her off Powter's pap well before the album acquiring stage, for this I thank Blunt.

  TenNinjas @jaggysnake7 | 1 Dec '05, 14:34 | Reply | X

• This guy can sing

  Maybe if u listen to the words of his music u might learn something !! ( that u like it)
  I like his singing & his voice & his piano playing.
  Well is it he, or u that has a record deal... He does cause he is good.
  If u dont know him look for his music u might like it ! (L)

  Debb | 28 Dec '05, 06:54 | Reply | X