Look! A picture of DiS's own Raziq Rauf with two members of Will Haven. Why is this on your internet today? Because the band in question - that's Will Haven 'case you missed it, just there, with that bit about Raz - are touring! In April. Fact.
The Californian quartet will hit the UK for a series of headline dates following a support tour with Deftones around Europe in March. At the moment, the band are working on the follow-up to 2001's acclaimed Carpe Diem LP. It has no title as yet, but will be out later this year. Fact?
Dates:
April
12 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
13 Cardiff Barfly
14 Leeds Cockpit
15 Glasgow Cathouse
17 London Islington Academy
18 Nottingham Rock City
19 Birmingham Barfly
20 Manchester Academy 3
21 Oxford Zodiac
Will Haven have a MySpace, here. Add dates to your gig calendar here, and be sure to keep an eye out for Raz groping t'other two band members in London...
Oxford baby yeah!!!
Brilliant news!
Oxford baby ye.....
wait a minute!
Reece, you stole my line!
homage homey
we are so there!
*honey
can i change that now please
so...
i guess Raz didn't actually take the picture.
Who knows?
Raz moves in mysterious ways.
BLOODY BRISTOL DATE
WHERE IS IT? I want the heavy in my face.
well i want a reading date
converge are playing reading, why won't will haven? EH!
...
Deftones & Will Haven - all they need is for Far to reform and join on the bill, then they've got the magic triumvirate of late-90s Sacramento genius!
Who sings?
I interviewed Abe "Quality Bloke" Cunningham last weekend and he reckons that Grady Avenell has left Will Haven to become a copper!?
Grady left a while ago
Which is why the musicians from Will Haven were able to tour with The Abominable Iron Sloth... I've no idea if Grady's become a copper but last i heard he was back in the band.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Haven
I know this...
but he's apparently gone and left them again.
Apparently they're making
a 'big' announcement at their show on Monday 19th - for some reason this has got me fearing the worst...
From their myspace blog...
"WE ARE NOT doing the UK part of the Deftones tour, Mnemic will be opening for the Deftones in the UK. We will be doing a small headlining tour in the UK after the Deftones tour, so we will infact be in the UK just not with the Deftones unfortunately"
so no Deftones/Will Haven team up then.... boo
Do what i did
and buy tickets for one of the european shows too. Amsterdam on Easter monday, £20 for tickets and £40 for flights... result :o)
Will Haven
...guitars so heavily downtuned that the front of the audience are subjected to distressing bouts of anal prolapse. Carpe Diem is a choooooon