Mars Red Sky Announce New Album Recording Plans, South American, West Coast US and European Tour Dates
Bordeaux fuzz rockers Mars Red Sky have a busy few months coming up. Next week, the trio will do a few shows in their native France, including sharing the stage in Paris with Dead Meadow, before flying to South America to play five shows in Argentina and Brazil. After that, Mars Red Sky will head north, to the Californian desert, where they’ll spend a week putting their second full-length to tape at Thunder Underground in Palm Springs — where the likes of Vista Chino, Brant Bjork, Nick Oliveri, Dwarves, Waxy and others have recorded — also playing a show at The Hood in Palm Desert in the meantime.
That would probably be enough for exhaustion, but while they’re on the West Coast anyway, Mars Red Sky will embark on their second tour of the region after playing SXSW in Austin, Texas, last year and doing a string of gigs afterwards (The Patient Mrs. saw them in Portland). They’ll be joined by Ancient Warlocks for those shows, which are dubbed the “For the Record” tour, and because hey, why not?, Mars Red Sky have also lined up some shows in Finland, Germany, Belgium and France for November and December. Like I say, a busy few months.
Makes sense that the three-piece would head to the desert to record, though. Their self-titled debut (review here), which was one of the best albums released that year, was put to tape in Spain in a similar landscape, and even their earlier-2013 Be My Guide EP (review here) honed in on similar atmospheres and laid back heaviness. Though I’d disappointed to have these guys in the country and not get to see them play (maybe a Boston show to break up the flight back to Europe?), I’ll look forward very much to hearing how the second album comes out when it’s finished.
Here are the tour dates:
Very happy to announce “FOR THE RECORD” Tour & Recording Project for the 2nd Album !
September :
09.18 BORDEAUX (F) “Make it Sabbathy #1!”
09.20 POITIERS (F) Le Plan B
09.21 ANGERS (F) Psych-Fest – Lévitation
09.22 PARIS (F) Le Point FMR with Dead Meadow
09.24 BUENOS AIRES (Ar) Uniclub
09.25 PORTO ALEGRE (Br) Black Bull Pub
09.27 SAO PAULO (Br) Club Inferno
09.28 RIO DE JANEIRO (Br) Mofo (Lapa)
09.29 BELO HORIZONTE (Br) Matriz
October :
10.01 to 10.08 Recording @ Thunder Underground Studio (Palm Spring, CA)
10.04 PALM DESERT, CA The Hood
10.09 SAN DIEGO, CA The Saloon in Encinitas***
10.10 LOS ANGELES, CA 5 Star Club***
10.11 SAN FRANCISCO, CA TBA***
10.12 PORTLAND, OR Ash St.***
10.13 SEATTLE, WA Shop Suey***
November :
11.20 LIEGE (B) La Zone
11.21 BRUSSEL (B) with Naam
11.23 BERLIN (D) White Trash with Monkey Three
11.27 JYVÄSKYLÄ (Fin) – Lutakko
11.28 HELSINKI (Fin) Bar Loose
11.29 TURKU (Fin) Klubi – Ilta puoli
December:
12.05 BREST (F) La Carène
*** = shows with Ancient Warlocks from Seattle.
More shows to be announced soon….
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