Somali Yacht Club Announce Spring 2023 Tour
The other day, Ukraine’s Somali Yacht Club posted the kind of year-end summary on social media that’s become more or less standard practice for bands who, say, give a crap about engaging their fanbase. Earlier in 2022, the Lviv trio released The Space (review here) on Season of Mist, and toured alongside Greenleaf and countrymen labelmates Stoned Jesus, and for sure those came up, as well as hints of this tour that was then TBA.
Obviously they also talked about the war that’s ravaged their home country for most of the year. This week, Ukraine’s president traveled to the US and spoke to congress, etc., shoring up commitment to the aide and weaponry the US has provided thus far. To say it’s a shitty situation generally, but gosh my home nation lives a proxy war with Russia, and if Ukrainian citizens and infrastructure are slaughtered and destroyed in the interim, well, that’s eggs and omelets, innit? I honestly don’t know what the answer is there, between ‘how can you not help when your military budget is by far the highest in the world and you’ve held yourself up — wrongly, but still — as a global moral authority since the end of the Second World War’ and ‘what the fuck business is it of ours if they’re not in NATO.’ Consider it’s probably where the trillions of dollars that went to Afghanistan so girls wouldn’t be allowed in libraries now should’ve gone, but no question it’s a diplomatic conundrum well beyond my paygrade to solve, and I’m not making light of it. Unfortunately the loss of life is real, whether the American people are the ones experiencing it or not. But America has never really given a shit about that either.
I don’t see that war ending anytime soon. If the US pulls the rug out, Ukraine is likely sunk, and that’s basically a setup for genocide. If we send more missiles, what, Kyiv takes Moscow? Or Putin kicks off and all is forgiven? That doesn’t seem likely either. It’s a mess, ugly, and there’s no good answer. Hey, anyone see that trailer for Oppenheimer? Let’s not forget the latent threat of nuclear war hanging over our heads, as if to prove once and for all that humanity has learned jack squat in the last seventy years.
So anyway, happy holidays.
I guess what I’m trying to say is if Somali Yacht Club are somewhat disheartened despite the successes of the band in 2022, well, they’re human beings in a roiling shitshow of a situation, so that seems well justified. What can you do to help? Buy a record? Buy a shirt? I don’t know. That won’t end a war, but it might at least let them know someone gives a shit about what they’re doing.
Okay, that’s my piece. Here’s tour dates. They’ll be out with Psychlona. Sláva Ukrayíni:
Tour. May. 2023. Special guest Psychlona!
First time in Netherlands, UK, Croatia, Sweden, and Denmark! Don’t miss it.
02.05.2023 (PL) Warszawa, Hydrozagadka
03.05.2023 (DE) Dresden, Chemiefabrik
04.05.2023 (DE) Jena, KuBa
06.05.2023 (NL) Nijmegen, Sonic Whip*
10.05.2023 (DE) München, Feierwerk*
11.05.2023 (HR) Zagreb, Mochvara*
13.05.2023 (DE) Ludwigsburg, Scala*
14.05.2023 (DE) Hannover, Faust*
15.05.2023 (DE) Hamburg, Knust*
17.05.2023 (DK) Copenhagen, Stengade* (w/ Kanaan)
18.05.2023 (DE) Kiel, Schaubude* (w/ Daily Thompson & Kanaan)
19.05.2023 (DE) Berlin, Desertfest*
20.05.2023 (PL) Kraków Alchemia
Kudos Sound of Liberation!
Line-up:
Ihor – guitar, vocals, keys
Artur – bass
Oleksa – drums
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