~~~ TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT ~~~
WAX MANNEQUIN & THE KETTLE BLACK head east and west! Check out these dates, Canadian fans – they will be so many places!
Wax Mannequin says this:
“This summer I’ll be embarking on the most ambitious cross-Canada tour that I have done in the past decade… thanks to the mightily industrious Nick Johannes (aka The Kettle Black) who booked this behemoth almost single-handedly. We will be travelling together in a used delivery van that we bought off of marketplace. We will deliver equal measures of salvation and retribution to each club, gallery, theatre, livingroom, laundromat — in every hovel, town, municipality, metropolis — with a seamless, heavy-as-f*ck, audio-visceral extravaganza. ”
Advance tickets available soon.
EAST
July 8 – Fredericton – The Cap
July 9 – Bathurst – Black Pug Live – w King Cod
July 10 – Moncton – Xeroz Arcade/Bar – w Schoondog Saints + Cursed Arrows
July 11 – Halifax – Gus’s Pub – w Cursed Arrows + Testing Fate
July 12 – New Glasgow – Mordoors Pub – w Brynn Currie
July 14 – Charlottetown – Baba’s – w The Devils Punchbowl
July 15 – Sackville – Ducky’s Pub
July 16 – Saint John – Callie’s – w Balaclava
July 18 – Montreal – AND Art Space
July 19 – Ottawa – Avant Garde Bar
(Home for a rest… unless)
WEST
July 30 – Sudbury – Lounge 390 – w Lightmares
July 31 – Sault Ste Marie – Unnecessary Noise Studios – w The Floor Between Us
Aug 1 – Thunder Bay – The Foundry
Aug 2 – Winnipeg – Handsome Daughter – w Cantor Dust
Aug 4 – Regina – The Club – w tba
Aug 6 – Calgary – Vern’s – w tba
Aug 7 – Lethbridge – The Slice = w Berserker
Aug 8 – Cranbrook – The York – w Death Quilt + Mantra
Aug 9 – Salmo – Erie Creek Brewing Co – w Rad Dog
Aug 11 – Grand Forks – 4th Street Studio
Aug 12 – Kelowna – DunnEnzies Downtown – w Mr. Awesome
Aug 13 – Kamloops – Bridgeview Theatre – w Dywane Regretsky
Aug 14 – Vancouver – The Cobalt – w Invasives
Aug 15 – Roberts Creek - Gumboot Cafe
Aug 16 – Powell River – The Alley
Aug 19 – Victoria – Little Fernwood – w Lily Fawn Electric
Aug 21 – Comox – Masonic Hall – w Pranatricks
Aug 22 – Chilliwack – Chill House Studio – w Aster Dawn
Aug 23 – Prince George – Omineca Art Centre – w Rabbit Soup
Aug 24 – Edmonton – Blakbar – w Grim Stone
Aug 26 – Prince Albert – The Spice Trail
Aug 27 – Saskatoon – Black Cat
Aug 28 – Winnipeg - King Cob Market Pub
Aug 29 – Gorham – Tumblestone Festival
Have you heard yet about Souwesto Gothic? A podcast regaling us with Southern Ontario lore? Have you noted its connection to our own dear folklorist Henry Adam Svec? Do you find yourself, once again, hovering in that strange space between truth and theatre? Who’s voice was that? Was that interview factual? Is Ron Leary growing garlic scapes? Why is that woman in the distance so angry?