During a vacation to the UK about a decade ago, my friend and I were stuck in the sweet dilemma of having to spend three days “off” in either Ireland or Wales. The mother of a friend we were staying with decided to put her two pence in and bluntly stated, “Go to Ireland. They’re all crazy in Wales.” Naturally, that comment made us want to head to Wales ASAP. Alas, fate intercepted us (in the form of free accommodation) and forced our hands and legs to Ireland to spend the days away in a beautiful East Coast town. We had no complaints, but we wished we could have visited the country of our musical heroes at the time, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci.
I managed to literally cross paths with Gorky’s singer Euros Childs during that same trip when I walked by him at a festival in Brighton and commented on his Palace t-shirt. He stared blankly through me, no doubt due to the inebriated Canadian hick drawl I possess even when not inebriated (though I was INEBRIATED then). Ah, but that was then and this is now, and now Childs is performing solo and is set to embark on a co-headlining tour of the U.S. with stellar singer-songwriter David Kilgour.
Expect to hear gems from Childs off his latest album, The Miracle Inn (out now on Wichita Recordings) and from Kilgour, who is touring in support of The Far Now, which came out earlier this year on Merge. The always excellent Kilgour will treat lucky ducks to shows that will feature, for the first time on U.S. soil, his full backing band The Heavy Eights. Catch the New Zealand-lubber and the Welshist rarebit at the following dates (worst nationality puns ever...):
10.27.07 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo *
10.28.07 - San Francisco, CA - 12 Galaxies *
10.30.07 - Portland, OR - Holocene *
10.31.07 - Seattle, WA - Hi Dive *
11.02.07 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge *
11.03.07 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive *
11.06.07 - Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar *
11.06.07 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
11.07.07 - Pontiac, MI - Pike Room *
11.08.07 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern *
11.09.07 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall *
11.10.07 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
11.11.07 - Cambridge, MA - TT the Bears *
11.13.07 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s *
11.14.07 - Washington, DC - DC9 *
11.15.07 - Durham, NC - Duke University *
11.16.07 - Atlanta, GA - The EARL *
11.17.07 - Nashville, TN - The Basement *
* co-headlining tour with David Kilgour & Euros Childs
