Tom Waits announces tour dates

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by Kev Kharas [Edit this content] ▾ 18 comments 14:16 May 6th, 2008

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

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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...

proslo | 6 May '08, 14:20 | X | Reply

OH GOD AMAZING

COMING SOON

yes_ | 6 May '08, 14:22 | X | Reply

ahah that video is hilarious

god I love him

yes_ @yes_ | 6 May '08, 14:26 | X | Reply

CAN'T WAIT TO TRY TO

GET TICKETS FOR THIS, ONLY FOR THE WHOLE SYSTEM TO CRASH AND BE BITTERLY DISSAPPOINTED ONCE AGAIN.

ehwhat | 6 May '08, 14:32 | X | Reply

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.

proslo @proslo | 6 May '08, 14:35 | X | Reply