Chris Wheatley
Photo courtesy of Chris Devers.
Portland rockers The Decemberists have just announced details of a Fall tour which will begin in Newport, RI at the Newport Folk Festival and end across the Atlantic in the UK at London’s Coronet.
The full tour schedule is as follows,
08/01 Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival
08/02 Montreal, Quebec – Osheaga Music & Arts Festival
08/03 Toronto, Ontario – Kool Haus
08/05 Madison, WI – Orpheum Theater
08/06 Chicago, IL – Metro
08/07 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
08/08 Indianapolis, IN – Murat Egyptian Room
08/10 Louisville, KY – W.L. Lyons Brown Theater
08/11 Detroit, MI – Royal Oak Theater
08/13 Buffalo, NY – UB Center for the Arts
08/14 Pittsburgh, PA – Byham Theater
08/15 Schwenksville, PA – Philadelphia Folk Festival
08/16 Holyoke, MA – Mountain Park
09/20 Burlington, VT – Flynn Theater
09/21 Montclair, NJ – Wellmont Theater
09/23 Norfolk, VA – The Norva
09/24 Charlottesville, VA – Charlottesville Pavilion
09/25 Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
09/27 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
09/29 St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheater
09/30 Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
10/02 Houston, TX – House of Blues
10/03 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/04 Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
10/06 Lexington, KY – University of Kentucky, Lexington
10/07 Columbia, MO – Ninth St. Fall Fest
10/18 San Francisco, CA – Treasure Island Music Festival
11/18 London, England – Forum
11/19 London, England – Coronet
Support for select gigs will come in the form of Heartless Bastards, Laura Veirs & the Hall of Flames! and Blind Pilot.
Tickets for the tour, which is titled A Short Fazed Hovel Tour, go on sale July 31st for the US dates and July 29th for the two UK dates.
The brief visit at the end of the tour is the first time The Decemberists have visited the UK since 2007. Hopefully it will not be the last time.
To celebrate the new dates being announced, The Decemberists have redesigned their official website.
For more details on the tour head over to the bands latest MySpace post here.
