Explosions in the Sky Confirm Huge Tour, Add Even More Acts (Animal Collective, Ghostface, Jens Lekman) to ATP 2008

Explosions in the Sky will curate 2008’s All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival. The Texas post-rockers confirmed in October that they would be playing with acts like Broken Social Scene, Iron and Wine, Dinosaur Jr, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, and Adem.

The past couple weeks brought more names to the festival’s roster, including Animal Collective, Ghostface Killah, Polvo, Four Tet, Silver Jews, and Jens Lekman. Temporary Residence labelmates Eluvium, Mono, and Lazarus are also scheduled to play. According to the band’s website, roughly 20 more bands will be added to the roster over the coming months.

The festival will be held May 16-18 at Minehead’s Butlins Holiday Park in the UK (what is it about Minehead’s Butlins that screams PAR-TAY?). Tickets are available at the ATP website.

And without further ado, here are the dates for their 2008 tour.

01.23.08 - Brighton, UK - Concorde 2 - 01.24.08 - Bristol, UK - Anson Rooms 01.26.08 - Dublin, IE - The Village 01.27.08 - Glasgow, UK - Barrowland 01.29.08 - Manchester, UK - Academy 2 01.30.08 - London, UK - Astoria 02.02.08 - Athens, GR - An Club 02.11.08 - Auckland, NZ - Kings Arms Tavern 02.12.08 - Wellington, NZ - San Francisco Bathhouse 02.14.08 - Brisbane, AUS - The Zoo 02.15.08 - Sydney, AUS - Manning Bar 02.16.08 - Melbourne, AUS - The Corner 02.17.08 - Perth, AUS - Perth International Arts Festival 03.14.08 - Tuscon, AZ - Rialto Theatre 03.15.08 - San Diego, CA - SOMA 03.17.08 - Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre 03.21.08 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall 03.22.08 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall 03.24.08 - Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue 03.25.08 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up Tavern 03.26.08 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre 03.28.08 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theatre 03.29.08 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant Theatre 03.30.08 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre 04.01.08 - Chicago, IL - Congress Theatre 04.02.08 - Grand Rapids, MI - Calvin College 04.03.08 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom 04.04.08 - Buffalo, NY - Tralf Music Hall 04.06.08 - Farmingdale, NY - Crazy Donkey 04.08.08 - New York, NY - Terminal 5 04.09.08 - Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom 04.11.08 - Norfolk, VA - Norva 04.13.08 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse 05.04.08 - Oslo, NO - John Dee 05.05.08 - Stockholm, SE - Kagelbanan 05.06.08 - Malmo, SE - Debaser 05.07.08 - Copenhagen, DK - Lille Vega 05.09.08 - Berlin, DE - Lido 05.10.08 - Hamburg, DE - Uebel & Gefaehrlich 05.11.08 - Brussels, BE - Cirque Royale - Les Nuits de Botanique 05.12.08 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso 05.16.08 - Minehead, UK - All Tomorrow’s Parties 05.17.08 - Minehead, UK - All Tomorrow’s Parties 05.18.08 - Minehead, UK - All Tomorrow’s Parties 05.20.08 - Paris, FR - Elysee Montmatre 05.21.08 - Koln,DE - Kulturkirche 05.22.08 - Heidelberg, DE - Karlstorbahnhof 05.23.08 - Munich, DE - Feierwerk 05.25.08 - Vienna, AT - Flex 05.26.08 - Bologna, IT - Estragon Club 05.27.08 - Zurich, CH - Abart 05.28.08 - Lausanne, CH - Romandie