The Wombats to play car park roof!

• 21st Nov 2007

With no thoughts of slowing down in 2008, the band will kick off the year by playing to 100,000 people from a carpark roof in Liverpool for the opening event of the Capital of Culture festivities.

The WOMBATS have been nominated for the inaugural XFM New Music Award, as voted for by XFM listeners.

The other nominees are Air Traffic, The Enemy, Frank Turner, Kate Nash, Klaxons, The Maccabees, Pigeon Detectives, The Twang and The View. The winner will be announced at the awards night at Koko on 16th January.

In other news, The WOMBATS' previously announced headline tour of the UK in December 2007 has now completely SOLD OUT. The tour includes a date at London's Koko on 7 December, and they will also play the first ever gig to be held at the Coronation Hall in Ulverston, a theatre in the Lake District.

01 Dec ABERDEEN Moshulu (SOLD OUT)
02 Dec GLASGOW QMU (SOLD OUT)
03 Dec MANCHESTER Academy (SOLD OUT)
04 Dec NEWCASTLE University (SOLD OUT)
05 Dec WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall (SOLD OUT)
07 Dec LONDON KOKO (SOLD OUT)
08 Dec EXETER Lemon Grove (SOLD OUT)
09 Dec NORWICH Waterfront (SOLD OUT)
10 Dec SHEFFIELD Leadmill (SOLD OUT)
11 Dec CARDIFF University (SOLD OUT)
14 Dec ULVERSTON Coronation Hall (SOLD OUT)

The tour will take the band's final gig tally for the year to 270 – which has included tours of the UK with The Enemy and The Holloways as well as tours in Japan, the US and Europe.