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2 unusual facts about touring


Mixed Terrain Cycle-Touring

The Army's 25th Infantry Regiment unit (African American Buffalo Soldiers) stationed at Fort Missoula, Montana was chosen for the test.

By 1886 the United States Army started experimenting with bicycle infantry as a replacement for horses in mixed terrain environments.


A Life Once Lost

The group supported the release by touring with groups such as Throwdown, Zao, As I Lay Dying, Lamb of God, Clutch, Opeth, Strapping Young Lad, and took Part in the Ozzfest 2006.

Admiral's Arms

They have played at the prestigious Vans Warped Tour and Groezrock Festivals, also touring US and Europe with The Chariot, Cancer Bats, Helmet, Glassjaw and more.On "Stories Are Told", Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oliver Sykes appears on a track called Dawn Of The New Age.

Alexandra David-Néel

From 1895 to 1897 she was prima donna with a touring French opera company in Indochina, appearing at the Hanoi Opera House and elsewhere as La Traviata and Carmen.

Alfa Corse

In 1993, Alfa Corse entered the DTM with the AWD V6-powered 155 TI, and created a Supertouring model, that would on got win the Italian Superturismo, the BTCC and the Spanish Touring Car Championship.

Arthello Beck

His paintings and sketches were among those selected for inclusion in a touring exhibition of athlete Grant Hill's collection of African-American artists.

Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada

The Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada is a professional award winning touring ballet company based in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Auster Autocrat

The Auster J/1 Autocrat was a 1940s British single-engined three-seat high-wing touring monoplane built by Auster Aircraft Limited at Rearsby, Leicestershire.

Cambridge Film Festival

The festival also has touring events across the Eastern region of England including Norwich, Ipswich and Ely.

Carol Wyatt

In 1988 the artist was included in The Romantic Tradition in Contemporary British Painting with John Bellany, Alan Davie, Christopher le Brun, Therese Oulton, Michael Porter and Lance Smith touring Spanish Museums which was curated by Keith Patrick.

Circle Slide

Even with all the popular success that greeted Wide-Eyed Wonder and the band's relentless touring in support of that record, the circumstances that surrounded the creation of Circle Slide were fraught with difficulty, not unlike Chase the Kangaroo, to which this album is often compared.

Civil Service cricket team

A Civil Service cricket team made just one appearance in first-class cricket, when they played the touring New Zealanders, who were on their first tour of England, at the Civil Service Sports Ground in Chiswick in 1927.

Classic Case

After several months of touring and writing, the band delved into a Manhattan recording studio for 3 months to record their debut full-length, Dress to Depress.

Colour of My Soul

Rob Derbyshire is an experienced touring musician, having worked as keyboard player with legendary former Motown artist Edwin Starr, while the other group member and producer Paul 'Solomon' Mullings worked with reggae bands in the Midlands and was a guitarist in Pato Banton's band.

Fruit at the Bottom

Wendy Melvoin's twin sister Susannah and Cole Ynda, Lisa's sister, contributed background vocal work to the record as well as touring extensively with their sisters.

Gilbert V. Hartke

He directed over 60 major productions at CUA, and several more for the National Players, a touring company he created.

Guerchais-Roche T.35

Roche Aviation designed the T.35 during the latter part of World War II as a low-wing touring monoplane with fixed undercarriage.

Helli Louise

Helli was also active on stage appearing in a touring production of Hair in 1974 and in the stage farce Pyjama Tops (circa 1973) where co-stars included Fiona Richmond, Jess Conrad and Lucienne Camille.

Hot Club de Norvège

Hot Club de Norvege have released many CDs, DVDs, and played together with all the gypsy stars in the genre, from Stephane Grappelli to Stochelo Rosenberg and Jimmy Rosenberg,and today they are touring world wide.

Island Lake Lodge

Island Lake Mountain Tours began as a small back-country ski touring operation on the property in 1986, leasing the land from Shell Oil Company.

Jay Kalk

In 1998 they released their second album called "Everyday Ninjas", which the band promoted vigorously touring around the upper Midwest garnering their first Minnesota Music Award .

L40

Orličan L-40 Meta Sokol, a Czechoslovakia n sports and touring four-seat single-engine low-wing aircraft of the late 1950s

Lawson Tower

The tower is listed as both an American Water Landmark and to the National Register of Historic Places - has become a popular touring site, featuring sweeping views of the South Shore, Old Scituate Light, Minot's Ledge Light and the nearby First Trinitarian Congregational Church.

Len Smith

Sean Fagan casts doubt on this, citing his 1998 interview with Len Smith wherein Smith advised that the game was played between one-half of the touring squad against the other with extra numbers made up by some military personnel on hand in Bombay.

Liberty Aerospace

The company produces one model, the Liberty XL2, an advanced two-seat touring aircraft based on the British-designed Europa homebuilt airplane.

Liz McComb

While regularly touring in Germany, Spain, France and Switzerland, she was in constant contact with the “greats”, doing the first part of their concerts, such as Bessie Griffin, Helen Humes, Luther Allison, B.B. King, James Brown, Ray Charles, Memphis Slim, Taj Mahal, Randy Weston, etc.

Lublin R-XII

The Lublin R-XII was the Polish three-seat sports and touring plane, designed in 1930 in the Plage i Laśkiewicz factory in Lublin, that remained a prototype.

Monotonix

In 2008, the band signed to Drag City, where they have released Body Language, recorded by Tim Green of the Fucking Champs, and have continued their all-year touring playing over 250 shows that year alone.

Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy

In October 2009, Tantawy launched a campaign against the niqab (the full-face veil which covers the entire body except for the eyes, increasingly worn by women in Egypt) by personally removing the niqab of a teenage girl (after she failed to remove it) at a secondary school affiliated to Al-Azhar University, which he was touring in Cairo's Madinet Nasr suburb, much to the shock of all concerned.

Olugbenga Adelekan

In 2012 Olugbenga toured Asia, Australia, Russia, and the UK, as well as touring festivals across Europe including Field Day (UK), Dot to Dot Festival (UK), off Sonar (Spain), Soundwave Festival (Croatia), Kendal Calling (UK) and Summer Sundae Weekender (UK).

Phinius Gage

They played over 500 shows in their existence, touring with many bands including Streetlight Manifesto, spunge, Whitmore, Flood Of Red, Reuben, RedLightsFlash, Ten Foot Pole, Farse, 4Ft Fingers and many others.

Précieuses

The précieuses remembered through the filter of Molière's one-act satire of them in Les précieuses ridicules (1659), a bitter comedy of manners that brought Molière and his company to the attention of Parisians, after years of touring the provinces, and attracted the patronage of Louis XIV; it still plays well today.

Rebecca Northan

As an actress, Northan has worked in theatres across Canada including Theatre Calgary, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Fringe Theatre Adventures (Edmonton), Quest Theatre (touring theatre for young people) and Alberta Theatre Projects where she appeared in the Fall Ensemble and playRites, a festival of new Canadian Work.

Religious to Damn

Shortly after the release of Glass Prayer, Atash also acted as touring vocalist for A Storm of Light, performing parts live that had originally been recorded by Jarboe and Lydia Lunch.

Richard A. Lovett

He has also cauthored two running books with marathon legend Alberto Salazar, plus two books on bicycle touring and one on cross-country skiing.

Roland Ratzenberger

But he got onto the grid for the next round at the TI Circuit in Aida, Japan, as his experience of the track from his touring car days meant he was the only driver in the race who had driven at the venue before.

Short Fat Fannie

He would sing the song often while touring as the Hawks, and even played a version of it on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 1993.

Stikky

During Stikky's active years it was common for them, Crimpshrine, Isocracy, Operation Ivy, Corrupted Morals, Sweet Baby Jesus, or The Lookouts to open a bill for a touring punk band almost every weekend at 924 Gilman Street.

Sussex's Men

In 1592–93, Lord Strange's Men were at the Rose; but the next year that company was touring the countryside, and Henslowe brought in Sussex's Men for a season running from December 26, 1593 to February 6, 1594.

Sydney Devine

Sydney Devine (born Cleland, Lanarkshire 1940) is a Scottish singer whose career began with a television appearance in 1953 at the age of thirteen, developed during eight years touring with the White Heather Group.

Ted LeFevre

His assistant design work includes ten international and touring companies of Beauty and the Beast, two new musicals at Goodspeed Opera, and both A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden and Carnevale at Radio City for Tony Walton.

The Chips

Although it did not chart, "Rubber Biscuit" became an instant east coast radio favourite, and saw its performers touring alongside The Dells, Cadillacs and Bo Diddley, but the momentum gained by their debut single was waning and the group broke up at the end of 1957.

The Doo Wop All Stars

In 2007, Pitt's health issues caused the group to cut down on their touring and eventually Pitt was replaced by Freddie Scott.

The Gay Parisienne

The piece toured internationally, playing in New York as The Girl from Paris, opening on 8 December 1896, at the Herald Square Theatre and running for 266 or 281 performances (sources differ) and then touring.

The Ghost of a Thousand

They continued their extensive touring, culminating with the UK and European Eastpak sponsored Antidote Tour, alongside Alexisonfire, Anti-Flag and Four Year Strong.

Tiffany Shade

After the band's breakup, keyboardist Bob Leonard went on to play with Mink DeVille appearing on the bands 1978 debut LP,Cabretta, and touring Europe to support the release.

Tyler Pursel

He has served as long-time touring keyboardist and occasional guitarist for Gym Class Heroes and in 2011 received writing credit on The Papercut Chronicles II.

United States Armed Forces Bicentennial Band

In addition to touring, the band was recorded for Volume 25 of the Heritage of the March LP series.

Wanda Landowska

She settled in Lakeville, Connecticut in 1949, and re-established herself as a performer and teacher in the United States, touring extensively.

Worthless United

In 2003 Worthless United released "A Nation Under" on Now Or Never Records and followed the release by touring across all of North American with bands such as The Bouncing Souls, Hot Water Music, Bigwig, Catch 22, and River City Rebels.


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