After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903 – 04.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

The 1962 tour to South Africa saw the Lions still win 16 of their 25 games, but did not fare well against the Springboks, losing three of the four tests.

The 1968 tour of South Africa saw the Lions win 15 of their 16 provincial matches, but the team actually lost three tests against the Springboks and drew one.

The 1977 tour to New Zealand saw the Lions drop only one non-test out of 21 games, a loss to a Universities side.

The 1983 tour to New Zealand saw the team successful on the non-test front, winning all but two games, but getting white-washed in the test-series against the All Blacks.

In 2001, the ten game tour to Australia, saw the Wallabies win the test series 2 – 1.

Visiting cities in Europe and North America between September 1995 and February the following year, the tour saw the return of Gabrels as Bowie's guitarist.

In 1934, Pauli saw a failure of his car during a honeymoon tour with his second wife as proof of a real Pauli effect since it occurred without an obvious external cause.

The 1951-52 season saw a tour to Australia by the West Indies.

The tour saw his bowling talents come to the fore when he took 106 wickets, surpassing the previous record of 104 by England's Sydney Barnes.

1987 also saw the band embark on another national tour, appearances on national television – including playing the final episode of Countdown and the lead single " At First Sight " making the Young Einstein soundtrack.

This tour lasted until 16 December and saw the band appear as the supporting act for The Rezillos and John Otway in England and Wales in addition to headlining in three concerts in Belfast and Derry.

The same week the album was released, the Undertones embarked on their ' Humming tour ', which saw the band play a total of 25 gigs across the UK between April and June.

Between September and December 1980, the Undertones performed two further tours: the ' Disaster Tour ( European Style )', which saw the band perform in continental Europe and — in December — the ' See No More ' tour of the UK.

One month prior to the release of this third album, in April 1981, the Undertones embarked on their ' Positive Touch tour '; this tour saw the band perform a total of 36 gigs across the UK mainland in the space of less than two months.

On 29 September 1981, the Undertones embarked on their biggest tour of Continental Europe, which lasted until 20 October 1981 and saw the band perform a total of 19 concerts in six countries.

1982 saw a lull in activity from the Undertones, who only performed a single tour of continental Europe in August, and spent much of their time writing and recording songs for their next LP in their 8-track demo studio.

It saw Amos perform on piano, Rhodes piano, and Wurlitzer electric piano, and though the tour was in support of her covers album, the set lists were not strictly covers-oriented.

; On Scarlet's Walk / Lottapianos Tour: Amos's seventh tour saw her reunited with Matt Chamberlain and Jon Evans, but not Steve Caton.

Peter Tork joined ' Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart ' onstage for a guest appearance on their concert tour on July 4, 1976 at Disneyland, and following on from this later that year he reunited with his fellow former bandmates Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz in the studio for the recording of the single " Christmas Is My Time of The Year " b / w " White Christmas ", which saw a limited release for fan club members that holiday season.

More than one million people saw Queen on the tour — 400, 000 in the United Kingdom alone, a record at the time.

Having completed the first leg of its extensive European tour, which saw the band play 15 sold-out dates across nine countries, the UK leg of the tour sold out within 90 minutes of going on sale and included three London dates, the first of which was The O < sub > 2 </ sub > Arena on 13 October.

The Roses embarked on a tour of Sweden in April, with their first gig in Manchester following on their return, at International 1, a venue run by future Stone Roses managers Matthew Cummings and Gareth Evans.

The tour, sponsored by Logo, the MTV Networks channel targeting gay audiences, provided information to fans who attended, as well as purple wristbands with the slogan " Erase Hate " from The Matthew Shepard Foundation.

A UK tour is currently playing, starring Claire Sweeney and Matthew Kelly as Rita and Frank, respectively.

She was also the opening act for Matthew Good's " Put Out Your Lights " tour in 2004, as well as for The Offspring's Splinter tour in 2004.

In May 2011, Matthew Morrison confirmed during an interview on talk show Chelsea Lately that he would also be joining the tour.

His cause was not helped by the announcement of the Mike Gatting's Rebel tour of South Africa in the middle of the series, which removed the England players Bill Athey, Kim Barnett, Ian Butcher, Chris Broad, Chris Cowdrey, Graham Dilley, Richard Ellison, John Emburey, Phil DeFreitas, Neil Foster, Bruce French, Paul Jarvis, Matthew Maynard, Tim Robinson, Greg Thomas and Alan Wells from contention.

Nelson was fêted, and visited Matthew Boulton on his sick-bed at Soho House, before taking a tour of the Soho Manufactory and commissioning the Battle of the Nile medal.

His first event on the tour was the opening Players Championship of 2012, The Spanish Darts Trophy, where he lost 4 – 6 to Matthew Edgar in the preliminary round.

In the spring of 1757, shortly after William had returned home, Mylne accompanied the diplomat Richard Phelps and antiquarian Matthew Nulty on a tour of Sicily.

The company name comes from a misheard line in " Space Captain ", a song written by Matthew Moore and first popularized by Joe Cocker and Leon Russell on the " Mad Dogs & Englishmen " tour in 1970.

A planned tour of the United States opening for the Stereophonics and Matthew Jay, was canceled due to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The first performances of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake – which uniquely included an all-male cast of swans – took place in the main house in November 1995, before embarking on a UK tour then playing in the West End.

In 2005, a collaboration between Leila and Björk from the greatest hits tour called " Nameless " ( subsequently titled " Storm ") appeared on the Matthew Barney film and soundtrack of Drawing Restraint 9.

In 1995 he survived controversy when he was caught and admitted to smoking marijuana with teammates Matthew Hart and Dion Nash while on tour at their hotel.

Following that was a guided tour around the NBN studios by the original production manager, Matthew Tapp.

Matthew will be making his West End debut in Our Boys after he was last seen in the national stage tour production of Agatha Christie's Verdict in 2011.

Sweeney is currently appearing in the UK tour of in Educating Rita alongside Matthew Kelly.

He made quick progress to the Australian Test team, and was selected for the Ashes tour of England in 1993, when he was just 23 years of age, narrowly beating Queenslander Matthew Hayden to the opening berth alongside Mark Taylor, who also grew up in Wagga Wagga.

The Motels 2009 summer tour found Martha Davis once again surrounding herself with all new musicians: Felix Mercer ( keyboards ), Matthew Brown ( bass ), Matthew Morgan ( drums ), and Matt Miller ( guitar ).

On the back of his IPL performance, Watson was subsequently selected to replace Matthew Hayden in the one day series as part of Australia's tour to the West Indies, after Hayden had injured himself during the IPL season.

" Eleanor appeared on neither album and Matthew did not tour in support of his solo releases.

On the 1995 tour to South Africa, Nash was suspended for smoking Cannabis along with future captain Stephen Fleming and team-mate Matthew Hart.