Modest Mouse Starts Tour In Eugene, Skips Seattle; Related BSS Info
February 5th, 2009
Modest Mouse announced some new tour dates today, with the first date being February 21st in Eugene, OR, the last in New York, with none in Seattle in between. Bummer—if you’re a huge fan living in the Pac NW, you might have a road trip in your future. You might’ve heard that Johnny Marr won’t be with the band on this latest tour (due to his recording efforts with the Cribs); Jim Fairchild, formerly of Grandaddy, will be filling in. If you disliked the Smiths guitarist’s addition to you favorite indie band from the Clinton era, well, then you might be smiling. Don’t smile too hard, though, I’m sure his parts will still be played.
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Mimicking Birds, who’ve recently signed to Isaac Brock’s label Glacial Pace, will be supporting the tour.
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Amazingly, a few of the dates are already sold out.
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Fri Feb 20 Eugene, OR – McDonald Theatre
Sat Feb 21 Chico, CA – Senator Theatre
Sun Feb 22 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
Mon Feb 23 Visalia, CA – The Fox Theatre – SOLD OUT
Tue Feb 24 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
Wed Feb 25 Tempe, AZ – The Marquee
Thu Feb 26 Albuquerque, NM – Albuquerque Convention Center
Sat Feb 28 Boulder, CO – Balch Fieldhouse
Mon Mar 2 Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
Tue Mar 3 Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
Wed Mar 4 Austin, TX – Stubb’s
Fri Mar 6 – Oxford, MS – The Lyric Oxford – SOLD OUT
Sat Mar 7 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
Mon Mar 9 Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues
Tue Mar 10 Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
Wed Mar 11 Raleigh, NC – Disco Rodeo
Thu Mar 12 Baltimore, MD – Ram’s Head Live
Fri Mar 13 Washington DC – 9:30 Club *with Kinky
Sat Mar 14 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
Sun Mar 15 New York, NY – Terminal 5
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In semi-related news, if only because I’ve yet to come to grips with myself for not buying Broken Social Scene tickets for tonight, I stumbled upon this video of Brock playing “The World At Large” with BSS back in November (Kevin Drew on bass! Brendan Canning on keys!). All you blog trolls probably think that’s like, a decade old, but not to this guy. I just found this shit. Would’ve been nice to see “Trucker’s Atlas” or “The Stars Are Projectors” or somethin’, but beggars can’t be choosers.
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February 5th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Kat said:
lol, you forgot to mention Emily Haines on backing vocals!
February 5th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
LB said:
Ha, you’re right! But only because I couldn’t tell if it was her or Elizabeth Powell (from Land of Talk), who I know has been playing with them recently.
February 5th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Kat said:
ok, you’re forgiven.
February 5th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
misterlevitan said:
Does Isaac reeeeeallly hate this town that much? I just thought it was something to sing about… “Cold, cold part of the world…”
February 5th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
LB said:
Well, we know he likes Portland more than Seattle…maybe you’re onto something…course PDX is just as cold as SEA…maybe they’ve just played here too much…
February 5th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
The Lady said:
on a totally unrelated note, can I say RIP Lux Interior http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2i-g8ZycNU
(I just couldn’t bring myself to post this under the Candlebox entry)
February 5th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
chris morales said:
This isn’t the first time Modest Mouse has passed over Seattle while touring.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
LB said:
to Chris: no it’s not, just the latest in a series of hometown PR catastrophes ;).
February 6th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Stevelknievel said:
Modest Mouse news you can use (in the future).
http://www.modestmousebiography.blogspot.com
February 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
rp said:
Why not Seattle. I do not understand?
April 17th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Johnny Rocket said:
Related to the vid: Brock did sing Trucker’s Atlas with BSS when I saw them at the Roseland in PDX (he must like us more)