Echo & The Bunnymen have announced details of a world tour, beginning and ending in the UK. The tour will follow the release of forthcoming album 'Siberia' which is due out on 5 Sep.
On that new album, Ian McCulloch said "The band we've got around us now are the closest to the old Bunnymen we've ever had. Not that we've intentionally set out to capture the past in any way. I think I'd been trying to get away from the approach of 'Heaven Up Here' or 'Porcupine' where a lot of the songs were based on a single note, or a pulse even But with this album I thought, let's just slide in there and see what happens. It was Will [Sergeant - guitarist], really, who reminded me that we used to do things more instinctively. We've tried to be a little less structured in the songwriting, but not forgetting the importance of a good song. We've got the balance here, I think."
Those tour dates are as follows:
22 Oct: Nottingham Rescue Rooms
23 Oct: Glasgow Barrowlands
24 Oct: Sheffield Leadmill
26 Oct: Norwich UEA
27 Oct: Manchester Academy
28 Oct: Leeds Blank Canvas
30 Oct: Birmingham Academy
31 Oct: Portsmouth Pyramids
1 Nov: London Shepherds Bush Empire
3 Nov: Koln Prime Club
4 Nov: Hamburg Grunspan
6 Nov: Berlin Columbia Club
7 Nov: Copenhagen Vega Jnr
8 Nov: Amsterdam Paradiso
10 Nov: Antwerp Hof Der Lo
18 Nov: Washington DC Black Cat
19 Nov: Boston Axis
20 Nov: New York Irving Plaza
22 Nov: Philadelphia Theater Of The Living Arts
23 Nov: Toronto The Carlu
25 Nov: Chicago Metro Smart Bar
26 Nov: Minneapolis Fine Line Music Café
28 Nov: Denver Gothic Theatre
30 Nov: Boise The Big Easy
1 Dec: Portland Wonder Ballroom
2 Dec: Vancouver Richard's on Richard
3 Dec: Seattle Showbox
5 Dec: San Francisco The Filmore
6 Dec: Los Angeles House Of Blues
7 Dec: Anaheim House Of Blues
9 Dec: San Diego House Of Blues
16: Liverpool Academy