DrownedinSound is pencilling in early June for the start of the MGMT backlash, after the Brooklyn duo announced plans for an Astoria-sized UK tour today.
Today also sees the arrival of debut album Oracular Spectacular (review) in the kingdom and tonight shall see it reimagined as a flaming effigy for my cynicism.
Anyway, dates:
May
5 Cardiff Great Hall *
6 Glasgow ABC *
7 Dublin Academy *
9 Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
10 Newcastle Academy 2
12 Birmingham Academy 2
19 Brighton Digital
20 Manchester Academy 2
21 London Astoria
22 Leeds Cockpit
(* = w/ The Futureheads, CSS)
Tickets go on sale this Friday (14 Mar) at 9am.
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when did
MOR become this horrible travesty to musical taste?
When done well MOR can be brilliant.
*sigh
surely by definition
anything that is done well isn't middle of the road. AM I MISSING THE POINT?!
yes
Well
bloody confusing ain't it.
Well I quite like these boys so 'mon the tunes
A five day run...
of Xiu Xiu, Jens Lekman, this, Sunset Rubdown and Broken Social Scene? I love London sometimes...