Tom Waits will tour the western world this summer, confirming he’ll play live in Europe soon after revealing a series of US dates.
The singer said as much during a spoof press conference recorded by his label Anti- for YouTube, in which Waits claimed the tour trail was plotted in relation to the constellation Hydra and compared himself to the “magi that found the Christ child.”
He confirmed the locations of the shows on his home continent before revealing: “We are actually going to Europe - it’s the constellation Eridanus, it’s known for its wildly veering path and it’ll be controlling and dictating our route from Spain to Dublin. I’ll be giving more details as they emerge.”Here are the US dates confirmed so far:
June
17-18 Phoenix Orpheum
20 El Paso Plaza Theatre
22 Houston Jones Hall
23 Dallas Palladium
25 Tulsa Brady Theatre
26 St Louis Fox Theatre
28 Columbus Ohio Theatre
29 Knoxville Civicc Theatre
July
1 Jacksonville Theatre
2 Mobile Saenger Theatre
3 Birmingham Alabama Theatre
5 Atlanta Fox Theatre
Tom Waits – Glitter and Doom Tour press conference
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I'm going to try putting Eridanus onto a map of Europe
See if I can work out the European venues...
Unless it's continuing the joke, of course
But it seems to roughly follow this path (assuming the northernmost star in Eridanus is Dublin):
Almeria
Valencia
Barcelona
Burgos
Bordeaux
Lyons
Torino
Milan
Florence
Llubljana
Vienna
Prague
Dusseldorf
Amsterdam
London
Nottingham
Liverpool
Manchester
Dublin
Of course, I'm probably completely wrong. A lot of these aren't places I'd normally expect a US artist to play on a European tour, and he probably won't play this many dates, but as far as I can see that's the closest the lines of the constellation match up to a line of cities.
I have too much time on my hands
Slough, eh?
BROTHER
Nope
That's not right
He's playing Scotland.
HE IS!
Or at least, he'd better....
scotland
isnt that in london?
Barcelona?
BARCELONA
PRIMAVERA
I'M GOING
PREPARE FOR BEST THING EVER
OH GOD AMAZING
COMING SOON
ahah that video is hilarious
god I love him
CAN'T WAIT TO TRY TO
GET TICKETS FOR THIS, ONLY FOR THE WHOLE SYSTEM TO CRASH AND BE BITTERLY DISSAPPOINTED ONCE AGAIN.
i'm can't wait for this scenario also
I tried in vain last time to get tickets.....
but this time I would bite the fucking bullet and go somewhere in europe to go see him.
How fucking good would it be to see him live?!
Sadly, very sadly,
I had a dream last night that the gigs were being announced on the news by Garry Shandling.
I was screaming at him to stop telling people, cos I thought that's even less of a chance for me to go.
A Birmingham date - that's great
I think the Alabama theatre is on Corporation Street.
!!
The man is an absolute genius.
Benicassim?
I hope to God he plays Benicassim, I'd cream my pants if that was announced.
I doubt that he'll play any festivals
he tends to be very fussy about the venues he plays
I saw him when he last played London a few years ago - cost a fortune but was well worth it ... will definitely try to catch him again
I know it's unlikely
but one can always hope. I'm not sure Leonard Cohen often plays festivals either does he?