The Dodos announce new U.S. tour
With the response of their recently announced sophomore effort, Visiter, still earning a tremendous amount of acclaim, The Dodos have announced a new round of North American tour dates. In between some stops in Europe, the San Francisco based outfit will hit up a number of U.S. locations, including stops at several fall music festivals.
“Touring constantly can definitely put some weird constraints on trying to become seriously involved with anyone,” [Meric Long] explains.
While on tour the Dodos have added a third member, Joe Hayner, to contribute those xylophone and toy piano flourishes. “Joe is the spice man. For now, he’s sort of filling in the parts that are on the record but we can’t play as a two-piece,” Long says of the Hayner. “It’s great having him onstage ‘cause he sort of breaks it up a little bit. I feel like we can play longer sets, and there isn’t as much of tendency to be constantly making noise between me and Logan.”
The Dodos 2008 North American Tour Dates:
09/21 - San Francisco, CA @ Treasure Island Music Festival
09/28 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar *
09/29 - New York, NY @ Spiegeltent *
10/02 - Boston, MA @ Museum of Fine Arts *
10/03 - Hanover, NH @ Dartmouth College *
10/04 - Montreal, QC @ Pop Montreal
10/06 - Toronto, ON @ Horshoe Tavern *
10/07 - Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick *
10/08 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge *
10/09 - Bloomington, IN @ Rhino’s *
10/10 - Richmond, IN @ Earlham University
10/11 - Columbus, OH @ Milo *
10/17 - Carlisle, PA @ Dickenson College
11/08 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
* = w/ Au
I _LOVE_ this band!
- Michael Ocean