Elephant Tree Update on 2017 Plans
Various announcements have been trickling out over the last couple months concerning London heavy rockers Elephant Tree. Okay, that sounds kind of ominous. It’s nothing dire. It’s live shows. But what matters is it’s a considerable uptick in live activity and in the scale of what they’re doing. They toured the UK last year with Mars Red Sky in support of their self-titled debut (review here), released by Magnetic Eye, but before the end of 2016, they’d already been announced for Desertfest London 2017 (info here), so it was pretty clear they were looking to hit another level in the New Year.
Thus far, they have. In addition to Desertfest in London and a Snuff Lane weekender in Bristol this March, Elephant Tree have been announced as making a debut US appearance at Psycho Las Vegas (info here) in August, and word came out just this past Friday that they’ll play Freak Valley 2017 as well in Germany alongside Conan, among many others.
Top it all off with an incursion into France next month and vague rumblings about new material in the works, and all of this has been enough for me to hit up guitarist/vocalist Jack Townley and see if he’s willing to give a rundown of the band’s ultimate plans for 2017. You’ll see in the quote below he shies away from specifics — they’ll be hitting “a few festivals” and “a few countries” — but he does confirm they’ll be in the studio working on their next release, though whether or not that hits before 2018 will have to remain to be seen for now.
All the live dates I could find and word from Townley follow:
Elephant Tree Live Dates:
06/02 Paris FR Dr. Feelgood*
07/02 Nantes FR Scene Michelet*
08/02 Poitiers FR Le Zinc*
09/02 Tours FR Puzzle Pub*
10/02 Lyon FR Les Capucins
11/02 St-Etienne Thunderbird Lounge*
04/03 Super Special Snuffy Weekender Stag & Hounds Bristol UK
28-30/04 Desertfest London 2017 Camden UK
15-17/06 Freak Valley 2017 Siegen Germany
18-20/08 Psycho Las Vegas 2017 Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas NV
* with The Necromancers
Jack Townley on Elephant Tree’s 2017 plans:
We’re absolutely blown away by the reaction to our last album. Thanks to everyone who took time to listen and enjoy it! As a result, we’ll be hitting a few festivals and a few countries this year, starting with Paris, France, on the 6th February. We’ll also be jumping back into the studio to work on a follow-up, so it’s all go-go-go at ET HQ.”
Elephant Tree is:
Jack Townley (Guitar, Vocals)
Peter Holland (Bass, Vocals)
Riley MacIntyre (Production, Sitar, Vocals)
Sam Hart (Percussion)
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