That was the Quo month that was ... July 2002
- 4th -
Recording of "The One and Only" TV show
- 5th - Quo concert at Sundsvall Festival, Sweden
"Heavy Traffic" UK tour dates announced
- 13th - Little Egypt at The Willow Festival
- 17th - Quo concert at Bullring La Glorieta, Salamanca, Spain
- 18th - Quo concert at Pabellon Las Traviesas, Vigo, Spain
- 20th - Little Egypt at The Axe and Cleaver, Boston, Lincs
- 23rd -
Quo on "Top of the Pops 2" 'Then and Now' special (BBC2);
Quo special on Onda Cero National Radio (Spain)
- 27th - Quo concert at Big Days Out Festival, St Georges, Broadstairs, Kent
- 30th -
"Heavy Traffic" launch on the Ark Royal
- 31st -
Ark Royal article in The Sun newspaper;
Rick and Francis in GMTV (ITV);
Francis interviewed by Phill Jupitus on the Steve Wright Show (Radio 2);
Francis interviewed by Bob Mills on BBC London 94.9FM;
Ark Royal review on BBC Online;
Ark Royal review on Navy News Online
4th - Recording of "The One and Only" TV show
Quo recorded a TV special at the BBC studios on Wood Lane for future broadcast on the ITV network. Entitled "The One and Only", the 1 hour 15 minute show was recorded in front of an invited audience of Quo fans, following requests to the FTMO fan club and via the official web site's message board. The band played the following set and the show is due to air in September.
- Caroline
- The Wanderer
- All Stand Up
- Solid Gold
- Heavy Traffic
- Creeping Up On You
- Forty Five Hundred Times
- Rain
- In The Army Now
- Roll Over Lay Down
- Down Down
- Whatever You Want
- Rockin' All Over The World
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5th - "Heavy Traffic" UK tour dates announced
The extensive UK leg of the "Heavy Traffic" tour was announced on July 5th, running from late October until just before Christmas. The full list of dates was as follows:
- 29 October - Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
- 30 October - Grimsby Auditorium
- 1 November - Brighton Centre
- 2 November - Bournemouth International Centre
- 3 November - Portsmouth Guildhall
- 5 November - Brentwood Centre
- 6&7 November - Basingstoke Anvil
- 9 November - Carlisle Sands Centre
- 10 November - York Barbican
- 11 November - Preston Guildhall
- 13 November - Folkestone Leas Cliff
- 14 November - Oxford Apollo Theatre
- 15 November - Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
- 17 November - Leicester De Montfort Hall
- 18 November - Croydon Fairfield Hall
- 19 November - Southend Cliffs Pavillion
- 21 November - Cambridge Corn Exchange
- 22 November - Newport Centre
- 24 November - Northampton Derngate
- 25&26 November - Bristol Colston Hall
- 28 November - Bridlington Spa
- 29 November - Southport Theatre
- 30 November - Bradford St George's Hall
- 2 December - Llandudno Theatre
- 3 December - Manchester Apollo
- 4 December - Plymouth Pavilions
- 6 December - Eastbourne Congress
- 7 December - Birmingham NEC
- 9 December - Guildford Civic Centre
- 10 December - Crawley Leisure Centre
- 12&13 December - Ipswich Regent
- 14 December - Wembley Arena
- 16 December - Sheffield City Hall
- 17 December - Harrogate International Centre
- 19 December - Dundee Caird Hall
- 20 December - Glasgow Clyde Auditorium
- 21 December - Edinburgh Usher Hall
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23rd - Quo on "Top of the Pops 2" 'Then and Now' special (BBC2)
Quo were featured on a special Top of the Pops 2 show, themed "Then and Now". Yet another repeat of the black and white Top of the Pops appearance from 1968 with "Pictures of Matchstick Men" formed the "Then", followed more interestingly by the first major TV airing of the video for the forthcoming single "Jam Side Down", as filmed aboard the Ark Royal.
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30th - "Heavy Traffic" launch on the Ark Royal
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here for special coverage of the "Heavy Traffic" album launch aboard the Ark Royal.
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