*I am not happy. It was bad enough I lived through a Valentine’s Day without a valentine this year, but now I’m unhappy with the boys from New Jersey who call themselves BON JOVI.

Jon Bon Jovi, et al, unveiled the newest dates last week of the North American One Wild Night 2001 Tour… and someone seems to have forgotten to include Hartford on the itinerary. Have we done something to offend these guys?

The tour as it stands right now has the band overseas, concluding dates in Japan, until mid-April. On April 18 the band returns to stages in the US, picking up the One Wild Night Tour with a show in Phoenix. Blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda … dates through May, June and into July… when the band gets into the Pennsylvania area.

There is a show on July 21 at Pittsburgh’s Post Gazette Pavilion, the following night at Hersheypark Stadium, then a jump up to Mansfield, Mass., for a show at the Tweeter Center on July 24, back down to Philadelphia’s E Center the following night, and then Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on July 27. Hello??! What’s missing from this equation? Connecticut, completely!!

*At least MARK KNOPFLER still seems to like Connecticut and his fans who call this state home.

Knopfler has lined up a coast-to-coast tour of North American that is scheduled to begin on April 23 in Boston, according to a release last week. The outing will mark the first North American tour by the former DIRE STRAITS frontman in more than a decade, and is a trip to support his latest album, Sailing to Philadelphia, a September 2000 release on the Warner Bros. label. Sailing to Philadelphia features guest appearances from Van Morrison, James Taylor, and Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Gifford, the primary singers and songwriters (and vocalists and guitarists) for Squeeze.

Following the kick-off show at the Orpheum in Boston, Knopfler will be playing the following night at the ctnow.com Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford. Tickets for Boston went on sale last weekend and have already sold out; the Connecticut show is slated to go on sale March 10.

Tickets will be available at three levels — $35, $45 and $65 — which does not include a $3.50 facility fee and any applicable taxes. Showtime is 7:30 and there is no opener listed by SFX, the tour’s promoter, as of February 21.

*I finally have some details this week concerning a BRYAN ADAMS concert at The Warner Theatre. Adams has been on the road for over a year now, supporting his 12th release, a greatest hits package from Universal Records called, appropriately, The Best of Me. The end-of-the-decade collection includes two new songs, the Beatlesque title song and the dance track “Don’t Give Up.” I would imagine he is also traveling as one of a trio — Adams has been touring since 1999 with guitarist Keith Scott and drummer Mickey Curry.

The multi-Grammy Award-winning pop-rocker will be in Torrington on Friday, March 30. Showtime is 8 pm, and tickets are available at $34.50 and $44.50 apiece. If you are interested in this show, contact the theatre’s box office at 860/489-7180 or send an email to warner@cttel.net.

*Just a reminder that tomorrow night’s all-ages MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES show at Toad’s Place is being billed as an “early show.” Whatever that means in club lingo… Tickets, which are $15, are still available and Cooter and Lost City Angels both have opening sets.

New on the calendar of that New Haven club is a March 12 date with HENRY ROLLINS, who has a brand-new release this week. Rollins is giving fans his latest helping of spoken-word material with Quarterstick. LiveDaily is calling the album a “scatological disc [featuring] the muscle-bound punk-rock icon riffing on everything from his disdain for poets to former President Clinton to his travels through Europe.”

The album was recorded over two months, during which Rollins performed at the same club every Wednesday night for one month and then every Tuesday night for the second month. Only 64 minutes of work was used for the completed release, leaving quite a bit of leftover material.

Following a spoken word tour — which has already begun and continues into mid-April — future 2001 plans include the next ROLLINS BAND release (expected some time in May) and a subsequent tour with the full group.

Tickets for Rollins at Toad’s Place, which is also going to be an all-ages show, are $15 in advance or $17.50 at the door. Toad’s Place tickets are available from the club’s box office in person, over the phone at 203/562-5589, at any TicketMaster outlet or from TicketMaster.com.

Also new at Toad’s Place is a May 4 show by a group calling itself AMPHIBIAN. Phish lyricist Tom Marshall is featured in this band.

Until next week, I’ll be seeing you... on the road.

Questions and comments should be sent to Shannon Hicks, c/o Bee Publishing Co., 5 Church Hill Road, Newtown 06470, or shannon@thebee.com; or call The Bee office at 426-3141.

Shows listed on the calendar at club locations are for ages 21 and over unless specified.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

FEBRUARY 23 — The Nerds at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury; Sol Dog at The Avenue Café, Black Rock; Darik & The Funbags at Toad’s Place, New Haven, Hype, Last Call and Bodrock opening; Milk at Acoustic Café, Bridgeport, Christine Havarilla opening; Dan Bonis at The Next Stop Café, Bethel; Joe Proc at Putnam House, Bethel;

February 24 — Off The Hook at Hot Shots II, Newtown; Mighty Mighty Bosstones at Toad’s Place (all ages, early show); Edipus at Laszlo’s Arts Café, Monroe, Intensify and Simalcast opening; The Benjamins at Tuxedo Junction; Deep Banana Blackout at The Webster Theatre, Hartford (all ages); Mark Nomad at The Next Stop Café;

February 25 — Murray The Wheel at The Next Stop Café.

MARCH 2 —Black 47 at Toad’s Place, New Haven, The Reilley Clan opening; Marshall Crenshaw at Tune Inn, New Haven (solo acoustic show); Sara Lee, Buddha Funk Special, Sister Funk, Poetic Pan and Fourpiece at The Webster Theatre, Hartford; Darik & The Funbags at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury;

March 3 —Duran Duran at Foxwoods, Ledyard; Generation Next at Tuxedo Junction;

March 4 — moe at The Palace Theatre, New Haven;

March 8 — Bela Fleck & The Flecktones at The Warner Theatre, Torrington; Psychedelic Breakfast and Bathtub Gin at Toad’s Place;

March 9 — The Nerds at Toad’s Place; Them Bones at Tuxedo Junction;

March 10 — The Zoo at Tuxedo Junction;

March 11 — The Tipperary Knights at Toad’s Place (annual post-New Haven St Patrick’s Day Parade show, doors open 2:30);

March 12 — Henry Rollins at Toad’s Place (all ages, spoken word tour);

March 13 — radio 104 Metal Meltdown: Fuel and 3 Doors Down at CT Expo Center, Hartford, Oleander opening; Karl Dennison’s Tiny Universe at Toad’s Place;

March 15 — The Clancy Brothers at Toad’s Place;

March 16 —John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den, Uncasville; Marshall Tucker Band at Toad’s Place; SR-71 at The Webster Theatre; The Wallbangers at Tuxedo Junction;

March 17 — Fuel and 3 Doors Down at SHU’s Pitt Center, Fairfield, Oleander opening; Joe Rockstar at Tuxedo Junction;

March 21 — CSA Songwriters’ Showcase at Acoustic Café, Bridgeport;

March 22 — Overkill at Toad’s Place, Cyd Xmas and Rise from the Ashes opening (all ages);

March 23 — Shakedown at Toad’s Place, Electric Mayhem, Smoke the Prophet and Buzzhound opening (all ages); The Benjamins at Tuxedo Junction;

March 24 — Screaming Broccoli at Tuxedo Junction;

March 27 — Luciano at Toad’s Place, Jr Kelly opening (all ages);

March 30 — Bryan Adams at The Warner Theatre, Torrington; Culture at Toad’s Place (all ages); The Nerds at Tuxedo Junction;

March 31 — FUBAR at Tuxedo Junction.