ARABIAN DAYS

Arab Strap's Aidan Moffatt will visit nme.com next week for a web chat. They'll be here on Thursday, August 19 at 2 pm GMT Click here[/url] to post your questions now.

They will also be signing exclusive sampler CDs from their forthcoming album 'Elephant Shoe' and nme.com has ten to give away. Click here[/url] to enter.

The four track sampler will not be given a release, so it's a bit of a collector's item. The tracks are

'Hello Daylight' 'Tanned' 'Cherubs' 'One Four Seven One' Arab Strap will play this year's Reading (August 29) and Leeds (August 30) festivals.

They also head out on a UK tour, calling at

Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (September 13) Oxford Zodiac (14) Leicester Charlotte (15) All Tomorrow's Parties festival at Camber Sands Pontin's (19) Exeter Phoenix (21) Bristol Trinity (22) London Islington Union Chapel (23) Colchester Arts Centre (25) Leeds Joseph's Well (27) Edinburgh Liquid Rooms (28) Glasgow Mitchell Theatre (29)

Get Arab Strap tickets now through the nme.com Virgin Cola Ticketshop - click here[/url]

Or call the 24-Hour NME Virgin Cola Ticketline on 0870 1 663 663. Calls are charged at national standard rate.