Octoberists: Oregon's finest to tour UK in autumn

by Alex Denney [Edit this content] ▾ 17 comments 16:36 July 17th, 2007

In a double bill of literate indie-pop worth getting excited about, Portland, Oregon’s The Decemberists will tour the UK in October, joined by Canadian trio Land Of Talk.

One might easily imagine the wintry five-piece will play some songs from their acclaimed The Crane Wife album, released earlier this year. Enough chatter, here are the dates:

October

2 London Royal Festival Hall
3 Cambridge Junction
5 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
6 Bristol Anson Rooms
7 Academy Oxford
9 Dublin Vicar Street
10 Liverpool Academy
11 Newcastle Academy
12 Glasgow Academy
13 Leeds Metropolitan University

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i once saw a poster

for a band called the septemberists. and someone told me of some marchist manifesto .

loamiathon | 17 Jul '07, 16:47 | X | Reply

i do believe this tour is called "The Smiting of the Chavs"

outstanding.

joshua_t | 17 Jul '07, 16:54 | X | Reply

I'm in Leeds when they play Glasgow

and Glasgow when they play Leeds :(

TheWildSon | 17 Jul '07, 17:53 | X | Reply

Ohh land of talk

thats sexy. I'm definitely there for the leeds date

Enjoyeternalbliss | 17 Jul '07, 20:20 | X | Reply

I bought tickets for Leeds...

About three months ago. Not the fastest breaking news story.

MrSib @loamiathon | 17 Jul '07, 22:08 | X | Reply

i'm going to RFH

:D
the crane wife is my album of the year so far, just beating cassadaga. it took me 10 listens just to get me past the opening track, it's that good.

cyan_scarab | 17 Jul '07, 23:23 | X | Reply