Another kick at the cat’s pajamas. I’m prepared to blog my face off again on this european tour we’re embarking on. people seemed to follow the last cross-canada blog so i figured i better keep it up. please spread the word(blog)!
I’ve decided to name the blog. It will forever be known as THE BLOG OF THE FORSAKEN. Okay, lets get started…
Saturday we launch in a rocketship over the Atlantic Ocean and into Paris where we begin almost a month’s worth of tour dates. I’ll cut to the chase and just post them right here:
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH ANNECY Le Comptoir de la Folie Ordinaire w/ Leopold Skin
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH LYON L’Antidote w/ Leopold Skin
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH BORDEAUX Total Heaven In-Store w/ Leopold Skin
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH BORDEAUX House Show w/ Leopold Skin
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 12TH CLERMONT Secret Roof Show w/ Leopold Skin
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 13TH CLERMONT La Coope w/ Leopold Skin
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 14TH PARIS Point FMR w/ Leopold Skin
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH LILLE Folk Adhoc House Show w/ Leopold Skin
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH RENNES Tion w/ Leopold Skin
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18TH NANTES Le Ferrailleur w/ Leopold Skin
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH DIJON Galerie Sabotage w/ Leopold Skin
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH BRUSSELS House Show w/ Trijaus
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND BERLIN The Monarch w/ Deer Tick
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23RD BERLIN Schokoladen w/ Trouble Books
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH (aft) HAMBURG Platzhirsch w/ Dan Mangan, Woodpigeon
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH (eve) HAMBURG St. Pauli Kirche w/ Timber Timbre and Mohna
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH SAARBRUCKEN Sparte 4 w/ tba
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH LONDON The Hoxton Bar and Kitchen w/ Timber Timbre
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28TH LONDON The Windmill in Brixton w/ tba
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH LONDON King’s Cross Social w/ Monica Heldal and William Rahr Fortna
This tour is in support of our record Spirit Guides being released by Kutu Folk Records in France! Check out the label here:www.kutufolk.com
We are really excited about this all coming together and the record coming out in France. It’s all one truly exciting surprise for me. On top of that, we get to tour france in the fall, and not just paris, but a bunch of smaller cities too. I can’t begin to explain how fortunate I feel about this. The folks at Kutu Folk already feel like a family to me and we are excited to land there on Sunday morning and meet our new friends. This tour will just be Sylvie and I and we’ve been working hard at trying to make as many sounds as possible with the two of us and I think it’s a really great sounding evening hymns right now, definitely one suited to the autumn weather and bottles of red wine.
After france we play a house show in brussels and then we hit germany for 5 shows. really excited to see berlin and saarbrucken and so excited to play in st. pauli church in hamburg with our good friends and church-shredders Timber Timbre
if that place ain’t haunted yet then it will be after that night!
thanks to tobias at gastspielreisen booking for helping us out! I look forward to doing a more extensive German tour in the future.
we finish up in the U.K. doing a few shows around London and most importantly opening again for Timber Timbre on the occasion of their European album release. it feels good to have this show near the end. taylor, from TT, and i did our first tours ever together many moons ago and it’s a real feelgooder for me to be asked to do this show in london with him. if you haven’t heard his latest release, well any of them really, than you should do yourself a favour and pick up the S/T record now. wowsers.
anyways, we’re camping out at my mom’s place for the next few days to escape toronto and focus on rehearsing and relaxing. stay tuned to the BLOG OF THE FORSAKEN for all important evening hymn’s news.
bon voyage.
jb
