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Worshipper Announce Mirage Daze EP & June Tour Dates

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Boston four-piece Worshipper were among the first bands announced for the Magnetic Eye Records tribute to Pink FloydThe Wall [Redux], but I have to wonder if the Floyd track they’ll reportedly include on their upcoming Mirage Daze EP will be the same song appearing on that release or a studio version of their take on the 1968 B-side “Julia Dream,” which they’ve performed live since before issuing their debut album, Shadow Hymns (review here), last year on Tee Pee. Either way, it’s one of four cuts that will be included on Mirage Daze — get it? because Garage Days? — which is set to release later in 2017 and will also include cuts from The OathThe Who and Uriah Heep.

Worshipper are also set to hit the road next month in a grander fashion than they have to-date, keeping company with Great Electric Quest along the way as they continue to support the debut. Below, guitarist Alejandro Necochea offered some comment on the goings on. You’ll find the tour dates as well, followed by the band’s video for the album track “Darkness,” which came out in January.

Dig it:

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Alejandro Necochea on Mirage Daze & touring:

We are very much looking forward to getting out of town, finally, and having the opportunity to spread our wings a bit and see the country together. It’s been a long time coming. We’re not spring chickens anymore. We have jobs, wives, mortgages, car payments, and need to pick our spots carefully. Bob, our bassist and artist, is an assistant professor at an art school and we can’t drop everything and travel for weeks at a time so the time we do spend on the road needs to count. The band has had the great fortune of working with Aaron Gray at Tone Deaf Touring who has come into our little organization like the Kool-Aid Man and is making our dreams come true. I’d love to take credit for keeping us busy but we really have Aaron to thank for that.

The “Mirage Days” EP is a labor of love. We recorded it live in the studio very quickly last Fall to give ourselves something to do while we settled back into our regular-life schedules after releasing “Shadow Hymns” and experiencing the fanfare that went with it. The idea was to make our own “Garage Days” revisiting the music from bands that inspired us to get together. Old groups like Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd, and The Who along with The Oath, a band that is relatively recent but their LP was one that brought us all together however long ago. Big fans. We are still dealing with the logistics involved in releasing covers and hope to have this out, in some form, later this Summer or Fall. We will see. I played our version of “Night Child” for Johanna Sadonis recently and she was very kind and supportive. That was a good day.

Worshipper live:
JUNE 2: GENO’S – PORTLAND, ME
JUNE 3: FAT BABY – MANHATTAN, NY
JUNE 4: THE DEPOT – BALTIMORE, MD*
JUNE 5: MCCORMACK’S – RICHMOND, VA*
JUNE 6: SLIM’S – RALEIGH, NC*
JUNE 7: TIN ROOF – SC*
JUNE 8: MASQUERADE – ATLANTA, GA*
JUNE 9: SPRINGWATER – NASHVILLE, TN*
JUNE 10: TBA – NEW ORLEANS, LA
JUNE 12: TBA
JUNE 13: FIREBIRD – ST LOUIS, MO
JUNE 14: RIOT ROOM – KANSAS CITY, MO
JUNE 15: REGGIE’S – CHICAGO, IL
JUNE 16: BOURBON ST. – COLUMBUS, OH
JUNE 17: HOWLER’S – PITTSBURGH, PA
JUNE 18: KUNG FU NECKTIE – PHILADELPHIA, PA
* with Great Electric Quest

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Worshipper, “Darkness” official video

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