Human Impact Add Dates to First-Ever European Tour
It doesn’t seem to me that Human Impact, despite having a couple releases under their collective belt at this point, have gotten the chance to be the band they were meant to be as yet. By which I mean they haven’t really been able to tour and not look back or get into an album-cycle-ish groove in terms of patterning out recordings and shows across however long and on whatever scale they’re looking for. Their first European tour is significant as befits veterans of acts like Swans, Unsane and Cop Shoot Cop, [EDIT Feb. 21: Apparently Phil Puleo and Chris Pravdica are out of the band and have been replaced by current members of Unsane.] and they’ve just added new dates to the stint, which I’m pretty sure was supposed to happen either early last year or late the year before who the hell can even remember and what does it matter by now anyway.
Point is, as these guys head abroad, it feels somewhat overdue. They’ve done more than one show now, true, but it’ll always be a bit of trivia that the first Human Impact show supporting their self-titled debut (review here) was in March 2020 right before the lockdown hit. And they only got to do the one. Timing is everything, folks. Stop me if you’ve heard that one before. You have.
From the PR wire:
HUMAN IMPACT, THE NEW YORK BAND FEATURING MEMBERS OF COP SHOOT COP, UNSANE AND SWANS, ANNOUNCE FURTHER DATES TO THEIR FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR
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Human Impact, the New York-based band featuring Jim Coleman (Cop Shoot Cop), Chris Spencer (Unsane), Chris Pravdica (Swans) and Phil Puleo (Cop Shoot Cops/Swans), have announced further shows to their first European tour – check out full listings below, including recently announced shows at Hellfest and two dates with Jawbox.
About the tour the band comments, “We are really excited to bring the live Human Impact experience to Europe and the UK as the world hopefully staggers towards a new endemic normalcy. Though we’ve been continuing to record over the past two years, the live shows have been a long time in the making. We look forward to playing for you all live and in person!”
Their self-titled debut album arrived on the eve of the pandemic back in March 2020, which received much critical acclaim and landed them the front cover of New Noise Magazine France. Human Impact followed up with an eight-song EP, dubbed EP01 a year later in March 2021 which featured a mix of singles and unreleased B-sides that were recorded simultaneously to the debut album.
2022 TOUR DATES
31/05/22 : Sonic Morgue @ Kuppelhalle/Silent Green – Berlin (DE) **
01/06/22 : Meetfactory – Prague (CZ) **
02/06/22 : Fluc – Vienna (AT) **
04/06/22 : Sunset Bar – Martigny (CH) **
05/06/22 : Gebäude 9 – Köln (DE) **
06/06/22 : Db’s – Utrecht (NL) **
07/06/22 : Petit Bain – Paris (FR)
08/06/22 : Green Door Store – Brighton (UK)
09/06/22 : 100 Club – London (UK)
10/06/22 : Deaf Institute – Manchester (UK)
11/06/22 : The Brudenell Social Club – Leeds (UK)
12/06/22 : Garage (Attic) – Glasgow (UK)
13/06/22 : Whelans – Dublin (IE)
15/06/22 : Exchange – Bristol (UK)
17/06/22 : Trix – Antwerpen (BE) (+ Jawbox)
18/06/22 : Paradiso – Amsterdam (NL) (+ Jawbox)
19/06/22 : Mezz – Breda (NL)
20/06/22 : Botanique – Brussels (BE)
21/06/22 : Paard – Den Haag (NL) **
22/06/22 : Grand Mix – Tourcoing (FR)
24/06/22 : Hellfest – Clisson (FR)
25/06/22 : Nadir – Bourges (FR)
26/06/22 : La Ferronerie – Pau (FR)
27/06/22 : Sye electric – Gigors et Lozeron (FR) **
28/06/22 : Tannerie – Bourg en Bresse (FR)
29/06/22 : Sedel – Lucerne (CH) **
30/06/22 : SoloMacello @ Bloom – Mezzago (IT) **
01/07/22 : RCCB – Rome (IT) **
02/07/22 : Freakout – Bologna (IT) **
**New additions
HUMAN IMPACT is
Chris Spencer (Unsane, UXO): Vocals/Guitar
Jim Coleman (Cop Shoot Cop): Electonics
Chris Pravdica (Swans, Xiu Xiu): Bass
Phil Puleo (Cop Shoot Cop, Swans): Drums
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