Swans Announce Live Lineup & Euro Tour; Leaving Meaning out Friday
Swans founder Michael Gira is currently on a solo tour in Europe — he’ll be in Slovenia tomorrow, if you’re in the neighborhood — and the band are getting ready to release the much-anticipated Leaving Meaning on Friday. All that’s pretty awesome, but adding a tour announcement never hurts either, so European shows it is. I can’t help but notice this run starts just a few days after Roadburn ends, so I’m going to keep my fingers crossed for that or otherwise look out for the US-dates announcement that’s reportedly coming soon. Either way, it’s Swans, so one wants to show up and receive the due skull-caving.
The live lineup that will play on the European and presumably also the US tour has been unveiled as well, including a few familiar faces, including Dana Schecter, also of Insect Ark, and fellow past Swans contributors Kristof Hahn, Christopher Pravdica and Phil Puleo. Ben Frost, listed on guitar and synth/Mellotron below, also plays on Leaving Meaning but doesn’t seem to have been in the band at any point prior. New face.
Alright then, on to the dates and whatnot:
This collection of individuals will comprise the musical group Swans in live performance in 2020 (see dates below). They will interpret material from the album “leaving meaning.” as well as perform new, unrecorded material…
Christopher Pravdica – bass guitar, weird-ass sounds, keyboards, loops;
Dana Schechter – bass guitar, lap steel, keyboard;
Ben Frost – Synthesizer, Mellotron, electric guitar;
Kristof Hahn – lap steel, electric guitar, loops;
Phil Puleo – drums, percussion, hammer dulcimer;
Michael Gira – acoustic and electric guitars, voice…
Here are the European shows that have been booked (US shows announcing soon):
4/26/2020 Krems an der Donau A Donau Festival at Stadtsaal Krems
4/28/2020 Berlin DE Festsaal Kreuzberg
4/29/2020 Prague CZ Divaldo ARCHA Theatre
4/30/2020 Warsaw PL Progresia
5/3/2020 Stockholm S Nalen
5/4/2020 Copenhagen DK Vega Main Hall
5/5/2020 Hamburg DE Übel & Gefährlich
5/8/2020 Barcelona ES Razzmatazz
5/9/2020 Madrid ES Sala la Riviera
5/10/2020 Porto PT Hard Club
5/13/2020 Zürich CH Rote Fabrik Ziegel oh Lac
5/14/2020 Milan IT Santeria Social Club
5/15/2020 Belfort F La Poudriere
5/18/2020 Wiesbaden DE Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
5/19/2020 Paris FR Le Trabendo
5/20/2020 Amsterdam NL Paradiso Music Hall
5/22/2020 Brussels BE AB
5/23/2020 Cologne DE Gebaeude 9
5/26/2020 London UK EartH
5/27/2020 London UK EartH
Remaining Michael Gira solo tour dates:
23 Oct – Ljubljana, Slovenia
25 Oct – Bucharest, Romania
26 Oct – Cluj-napoca, Romania
28 Oct – Warsaw, Poland
29 Oct – Warsaw, Poland
31 Oct – Kyiv, Ukraine
1 Nov – Vilnius, Lithuania
2 Nov – Helsinki, Finland
Album pre-order: http://smarturl.it/SWANS-LM
http://www.facebook.com/SwansOfficial
https://swans.bandcamp.com
http://www.younggodrecords.com/
