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Ricky's Glasgow show with The Quireboys on December 5th will now be at The Cathouse.
Ricky will be playing a short set as special guest of Tyla ( Dogs D'Amour) at the Railway Inn Johnston, Pembrokeshire, Wales on December 6th.

A very good mate of mine Tyla from the band Dogs D'Amour has had a 1990 Gibson Black J 200 Acoustic guitar stolen from his recent show at the Casbah Club in Sheffield. Needless to say the man is very distraught over this. Anyone out there with any info or who may be approached by someone selling said guitar please get in touch with Tyla at his myspace page www.myspace.comtylaandthedogsdamour
I hope the scumbag/scumbags who did this.... rot in hell!!!

Ricky has announced the first dates of what is going to be a hectic year of touring in 2009.
The shows are;
January 10th at The Mint in Los Angeles. Also playing sets at this show are Mark Hayes, Vivian Campbell and Lauren Monroe and Friends featuring Rick Allen of Def Leppard.
On January 22nd and 23rd Ricky will be supporting The Head Cat at Anaheim House Of Blues and The Roxy in Hollywood.
The Head Cat is the side band of Lemmy from Motorhead and Slim Jim from The Stray Cats!!
More tour dates for 2009 to be announced soon!!

Its with very heavy hearts and immense sadness that we have to announce that our friend and one time manager of the Almighty Tommy Tee passed away very suddenly on the evening of December 23rd. all our thoughts at this time are with his wife, Jube and children Ben, Thomas and Charlie.

Tommy managed The Almighty from 1988 to 1993 and even after we parted ways he remained a firm friend throughout.
Ricky first got to know tommy when he joined New Model Army as a live guitar player for their world tour back in 1987. Tommy was their tour manager at that time and would later would go on to become their manager. The rest of us were lucky enough to meet him shortly after as, he was one of the main catalists that started what was to become The Almighty.
Tommy was one of those people who, when you first met, you liked straight away, he had a huge zest for life, a fantastic work ethic and above all a huge sense of fun.
Tommy was manager of The Almighty from day one, when the band first formed, it is fair to say that Tommy was as much an integral part of the band as any of the rest of us. No idea was too big and he instilled a confidence in us that made us all believe that anything was possible. He helped guide the band to from playing to 12 people at our first gig to playing in front of 80,000 people at Castle Donnington and having hit singles and albums. We always, to this day, consider him to be part of the band. He has always remained a loyal and true friend to all of us, a great family man and, above all, a true gentlemen. He will be terribly missed.

Tommy, we love ya!

Ricky, Floyd, Pete & Stump
The Almighty