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We can safely say that we've never heard of a group of college students as devoted to their research as those at Central St. Martin's College in London, England. And it's an art school!

As previously reported, the university was scheduled to host a sold-out Clinic gig on December 14, but due to "pressure from a small minority of students, who saw the show as a perceived disruption to their studies and were threatening to stage a sit-in protest" (according to the band's website), the concert was canceled.

A sit-in protesting a rock show?! What decade is this again? The fifties?

Tickets for the canceled show will be honored at the band's next London show, tentatively scheduled for somet time in February 2007. Tickets can also be refunded from point of purchase.

Clinic's fourth album, Visitations, will be released in the U.S. on January 23 via Domino. The band will tour here in support of it in March.

Remaining dates:

02-04 Glasgow, Scotland - Optimo
03-02 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
03-03 San Francisco, CA - The Independent (Noise Pop)
03-06 Washington, DC - Black Cat
03-07 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
03-09 New York, NY - The Gramercy
03-10 Cambridge, MA - Middle East
03-11 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
03-12 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace