David's tour schedule may be viewed at his official Web site, specifically at the page http://www.davidwilcox.com/dw/calendar.php.  

When is DW going to get around to playing [insert your favorite town here]?

This is question has been a popular one and doesn't have a short answer.  For years there was immense demand to get DW to tour the northwest.  The question has been best answered by Tom Simonson, DW's manager:

There are certain regions of the country that David has not played recently. Let me assure you all that this is not due to any "bad experiences" or desire to slight any region or city, but rather the realities of booking tours where one needs to juggle about 20 sets of variables (travel, the number of shows that we can book, the dates that promoters have available and how they connect with David's schedule, how much demand exists in a given market. etc.) to make dates work. In the case of the Pacific NW, there have been several times in the past year where we were close to having dates that worked, but several different sets of problems arose making the dates fall through. As I have stated repeatedly, it is our intent to get him through the NW soon, and we will. Added to the normal set of variables to work with, we now need to schedule around recording the new record. (more details on that in another few weeks) I would also like correct some of the incorrect statements and inferences that seem to be feeding the comments about markets people feel are being ignored. First, David was in Seattle just over a year ago at Bumbershoot and in Lewiston ID in late 1995. San Francisco has a date that has just been announced on Nov 24 at the Great American Music Hall and David did several summertime events in the greater Bay Area in the summer of 95.

So to close, speculate about conspiracy theories or desires to snub areas of the country all you want, but please do so knowing that it is pure imagination with no basis in reality. David is pleased to perform anywhere in the country. It is my job as his manager to make sure that when he is on the road that it works as efficiently and effectively as possible.

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Ok, so everybody in the NW was kicking and screaming for some shows, now we've got some shows, and I'd like to ask everyone's help, please.... So the question comes up "What if we had a show, and nobody bought tickets?", the answer is, of course, that it would be bad....

This is the part where you come in; if you know anyone who might dig David in any of the west coast cities (or anywhere, for that matter) where he is soon appearing, please tell them about it and urge them to go to the show. It is particularly crucial in Portland, as there has never been a powerful radio station in town that has played David's music. (and that is not for lack of trying to convince the station, I can assure you) We can use the help everywhere, but Portland is the most pressing. Judging from all the posts on the topic, I know many of you are pretty much already in the mode of telling people about David but any additional help that can be directed at Portland would be a great help.
--Tom Simonson

David Wilcox usually performs solo acoustic shows. He did tour with a full band during summer 1997 with great success. The "band thing" may happen again in varying formats and places in the future. There is no set answer to that question, but DW has expressed interest in doing it again as time and resources allow.

What is DW's policy on bootlegging?

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT NEW CHANGE AS OF MAY 7, 2003 REGARDING BOOTLEGS:

Yup its true... you wanna tape? You wanna trade said tapes? Go for it! We are now openly allowing taping at David's shows To that end, we have added a forum at www.davidwilcox.com dedicated to helping you trade. 

All we ask from tapers is the following: No mic stands or recording set ups that will in any way interfere with others enjoyment or safety of the show. (ie no piles of gear, power or mic cords snaked about etc) Mic'ed taping only, we are not making board feeds available. Please don't hassle the house sound folks asking for a feed. Its a different situation for bigger acts that are carrying their own sound or at least their own sound engineer - they control it, and can more easily make it available. We have to rely upon each venue, and their engineers, standards and policies. So mics only for now - until the power of tape trading sweeps David to such heights that he is playing huge halls carrying his own sound system with numerous taper feeds! (that last bit was delivered with tongue firmly in cheek - owing to the 8,432 emails that I have recieved over the years extolling the unchecked career growth that occurs for any artist who allows taping and trading :-)... I'm not disputing, questioning that theory, or trolling for flames, just poking fun based on 10 years of emails!) 

All of the preceding assumes that all tapes will only be for personal and/or trading purposes - no sales. But then you expected that last bit didn't you? :-)

Enjoy the shows and tapes!
--Tom Simonson

Prepared by Clator Butler, manager of The David Wilcox E-mail Forum