Stoned Jesus Announce Spring 2024 Touring
Who wants to fly my grumpy, middle-aged ass to Paris in April to catch a show? No one? Maybe Bordeaux? Porto? Lisbon? Madrid? Barcelona? I’ll go pretty much anywhere that has an airport for this one. Stoned Jesus have had a particularly fucked couple of years, as their home in Kyiv, Ukraine, has been subject to invasion from neighboring Russia and the ensuing proxy war between Ukrainian forces with NATO backing and the monolith that is Russian imperialism. I’ve been saying for the last two years I don’t know how that war’s gonna end, and could go on and on about it, but it’s war. It would be a welcome change if humans stopped slaughtering each other, and at no point in the history of the species from voles hiding in the ground when the asteroid offed the dinosaurs to right this fucking moment has that not been true.
That’s not to make light of modern warfare’s particular horrors or the struggle undertaken by Ukrainians on behalf of their home/the Western liberal democratic ideology, mind you. Stoned Jesus in early 2023 nonetheless issued one of the year’s best albums in their Season of Mist debut, Father Light (review here), and were set to tour Europe this past Spring when Ukraine imposed travel restrictions, undercutting the band’s ability to promote their work as intended. I guess that’s ended or some special dispensation has been made — White Ward also seem to be getting out, so it seems less likely to be wishful booking — because in April 2024, Stoned Jesus are set to head west to France, Germany, Portugal and Spain.
They’ll be keeping company with Bordeaux’s Mars Red Sky — speaking of 2023’s best albums, they had one too — and I don’t know anything about anything about the paperwork involved, but for the sake of all involved, including the heads who’ll actually get to see these shows unlike my daydream-jetsetter self, I hope they happen.
From the PR wire:
Stoned Jesus are celebrating 15 years of doomy, heavy-hitting progressive rock this April with fellow stoners Mars Red Sky.
Get tickets for their European tour: https://www.season-of-mist.com/news/stoned-jesus-2023-12-22/
Order their new album ‘Father Light’: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/STJ-FL
16 April: Strasbourg FR @ La Laiterie
17 April: Karlsruhe DE @ Alte Hackerei
18 April: Paris FR @ Le Trabendo
19 April: Bordeaux FR @ Le Royal
20 April: Hondarribia ES @ Psylocibenea*
21 April: Porto PT @ Hard Club*
22 April: Lisbon PT @ Lisboa ao Vivo*
23 April: Madrid ES @ Nazca*
24 April: Barcelona ES @ Razzmatazz 3*
25 April: Touluse FR @ Le Rex*
26 April: Toulon FR @ Omega Live*
27 April: Lyon FR @ Le Transbordeur
*w/ Mars Red Sky
Stoned Jesus are:
Igor Sydorenko – guitar, lead vocals
Dmytro Zinchenko – drums and percussion, backing vocals
Sergii Sliusar – bass, backing vocals
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