Welcome! You have entered the very much cobbled-together world of the first Magic Numbers fansite. Use the navi-bar on the left to find your way through the site, and the forum to interact. Latest News 20th August 2006 - This Year We're Off To Sunny Spain, Eviva España! Explaining the gap between legs of the UK tour later this year, it seems the band will be taking on the Spanish touring festival "Wintercase", hitting four venues across the mainland in four consecutive nights, including a chance to relive the sensational night back in March at the Barcelona Razz. Details, as usual, on the live page. Support comes from Goodbooks and Peter, Bjorn & John. 18th August 2006 - UK Tour To Close Another Sensational Year A mailshot today confirmed that the Numbers will be hitting the road in the UK in November and December. Starting in Liverpool and spanning most of England in November, they close a ten-day tour at Hammersmith Apollo. The tour then resumes with some outstanding UK dates before heading for a couple of shows in Scotland. Gig listing appears on the live page of this site. 14th August 2006 - Won't Find Us Taking Chances... Or Will You? Onstage at the Eden gig on Saturday, Romeo confirmed to the crowd that the new crowdpleasing favourite "Take A Chance" will be the band's next single, and the first off the forthcoming followup album (still to be named). This would apparently confirm the subsequent release of the album, although dates for either are still unclear. 12th August 2006 - Numbers Play Eden's "Biggest Ever" Show Even before wowing the crowd with a scintillating performance, the omens were good - the night's compere announced that the show was the biggest ever to be held at Eden with most number of tickets sold for a single day event. Local press estimate that the crowd topped 6,000. 1st August 2006 - Second Classic Album Almost In The Can After playing two shows in two nights in the north of England last weekend, the band told fans that the second album - dubbed by many as the "Second Classic" - was almost complete and pencilled in for a release later this year. And you know what that means folks... more gigs! Stay tuned for more news. 15th July 2006 - Numbers To Play Unprecedented Second 'Street Gig' UK network provider T-Mobile has announced that it will host The Magic Numbers for the second time in its Street Gigs series. The show will take place at an old Bingo Hall in Manchester City Centre, and likely some parts of the event will be screened on the Channel 4 TV show 'Transmission' a week or so later. 2nd July 2006 - Immediate Changes For Dublin Show The support act for the festival warmup show at Wheelan's in Dublin on Friday has been changed - replacing Paolo Nutini are young Irish band The Immediate. 28th June 2006 - Numbers' Wiki Hits The Web I've taken the liberty of finally extending the Numbers' presence on Wikipedia, which was previously limited to a pretty shabby two or three paragraphs. The profile now includes a background, stories of the first and second albums and gigging histories. The page is open to anyone to update and edit, so take a look at Wikipedia and help to extend the Numbers' web presence. 18th June 2006 - One-Off Dublin Pre-Festival Club Show Announced To precede the festival double-header of Oxegen in Ireland and T In The Park in Scotland, the Numbers will play a one-off show at a relatively small bar in downtown Dublin the night before the Oxegen performance, supported by upcoming Scotish crooner Paolo Nutini. 12th June 2006 - The Beard To Remain 'Live Only' Romeo has confessed via the band's messageboard that it's unlikely that the traditional set-closer The Beard will ever been recorded. Citing the strangeness of performing the song without an audience, the band are likely to at least keep some things sacred (link here) News older than this is listed on the news page. This site is dependent upon regular updates - if there's any news/live date/articles anywhere that's not listed here, please get in touch by email.