If you were thinking of naming your kid J.Spaceman, don't bother. That shit is registered, ®, by Mr. Jason Pierce of Spiritualized®. And he's taking the moniker on the road this fall.

After a crushing and mysterious illness that struck the singer/songwriter/spaceman last year, he is celebrating his recovery and new album with an acoustic tour. The star does acoustic tours a little differently than your gay cousin rocking the local starbucks' open mic night. Spaceman's crew will include accompaniment on all dates by a string quartet, gospel singers and Doggen on Fender Rhodes. Doggen, not Dokken. I know that would have been awesome.

The UK tour will hit the following stops:

Guests are likely to hear songs from the forthcoming Spiritualized® album, as well as cuts from the Spaceman 3 and Spiritualized® catalogue. The new album is due out in early 2007, on which mixing has resumed since the singer's recovery. On many LPs, Jason likes to direct a few words to the big guy in the sky, but now he's basically producing evil itself. I would have thought Satan would have gone with the Matrix or Neptunes for his big debut, but I guess I was wrong. Pierce describes the new album as:

Feeling better. Way better.
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