Swans

Announce EU tour inc. biggest UK headline show at the Roundhouse (21May) + Watch exclusive short film + Release remastered ‘Filth’

 

 

# 1 in The Quietus’ Albums of the Year So Far

The Guardian – “More than 30 years after they started, Swans are still flying boldly against the prevailing winds of our age.”

Drowned In Sound 10/10 – “We’re on a ladder to God, and Swans are leading the way”

NME 9/10 – “An insane and challenging, ambitious and exceptional work of art.”

 

 

Swans have announced their biggest UK headline show yet, at London’s legendary Roundhouse, on 21 May 2015. Tickets for the show go onsale from Friday 12 September here, special guests will be announced shortly.

 

Swans infamous and mighty live performance has been described by the Guardian as “a magnificent achievement”, by The Quietus as “a revelation” and by NME as “colossal” and in the surroundings of London’s historic Roundhouse, the event promises to show it at its most intense.

 

The band’s extensive live schedule sees them return to Europe in September, and a recently announced festival curated by Swans / Michael Gira will see three days of music (20-23 November) culminating in a Swans performance. The Mouth To Mouth festival, part of Le Guess Who? in Utrecht, features a stunning line up that includes labelmate Ben Frost alongside Wire, Silver Apples, Savages & Bo Ningen’s epic sonic poem ‘Words to the Blind’, Xiu Xiu plus many more, full details at: http://leguesswho.nl/

 

In addition, they round off an incredible year which has seen the release of their critically acclaimed album, ‘To Be Kind‘, with a remastered edition of their debut studio album, ‘Filth’, out vinyl, CD and digitally on 27 October 2014.

 

‘Filth’ was released in 1983, the album was recently described by Clash magazine as “a brutally exhaustive work swimming in a thematic pool of audacious abjection” and by The Village Voice as “no wave with five years of practice, too messy for mysticism and too funny for suicide.” The vinyl edition of ‘Filth’ will come with two reproduction live posters and is the first in a series of remastered catalogue reissues.

 

Swans, led by Michael Gira, formed in 1982 and, after disbanding in 1997, returned with the critically acclaimed albums ‘My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky’ (2010), ‘The Seer’ (2012) and this year’s ‘To Be Kind‘ – which was awarded the #1 slot in The Quietus’ Albums of the Year So Far and featured in MOJO, Drowned In Sound, The 405, Rolling Stone and many more mid-year lists.

 

Swans are Michael Gira, Norman Westberg, Christoph Hahn, Phil Puleo, Thor Harris and Christopher Pravdica.

 

Watch a short film premiering now on NOWNESS, featuring an interview with Michael Gira and clips of an acoustic performance of Oxygen HERE. 

 

 

 

SWANS – TO BE KIND EUROPEAN TOUR – 2014 / 2015

25 September – Brussels, AB club, Belgium

26 September – Amsterdam, Paradiso Music Hall, Holland

27 September – Paris, LA MAROQUINERIE, France – second night added due to demand

28 September – Paris, LA MAROQUINERIE, France

30 September – La Rochelle, La Sirene, France

1 October – Barcelona, Sala Apolo, Spain

2 October – Madrid, Shoko, Spain

3 October – Durango, PLATERUENA, Spain

4 October – Porto, AmpliFest, Portugal

7 October – Fribourg, FRI-Son, Switzerland

8 October – St. Gallen, Grabenhalle, Switzerland

9 October – Torino, Hiroshima Club, Italy

10 October – Bologna, Estragon Club, Italy

11 October – Roma, Circolo Degli Artisti, Italy

12 October – Milan, Alcatraz Milano, Italy

14 October – Zagreb, Pogon Jedinstvo, Croatia

15 October – Budapest, A38 Ship, Hungary

16 October – Ljubljana, Kino Kiska Centre for Urban Culture, Slovenia

17 October – Vienna, Arena Big Hall, Austria

18 October – Krakow, Unsound Festival, Poland

20 October – Prague, Lucenra Music Bar, Czech Republic

21 October – Berlin, Berghain, Germany

22 October – Berlin, Berghain, Germany – second night added due to demand

23 October – Leipzig, Schauspiel Leipzig, Germany

24 October – Cologne, Gebaeude 9, Germany

25 October – Hanover, MusikZentrum, Germany

27 October – Hamburg, Kampnagel, Germany

29 October – Dresden, Beatpol, Germany

30 October – Wiesbaden, Schlachtho, Germany

31 October – Karlsruhe, Jubez, Germany

1 November – Munich, Feierwerk, Germany

22 November – Utrecht, Mouth To Mouth at Le Guess Who? festival curated by Swans

23 November – Copenhagen, Vega Main Hall, Denmark

24 November – Oslo, Rockefeller, Norway

25 November – Stockholm, Slakthuset, Sweden

26 November – Helsinki, Tavastia, Finland

28 November – St Petersburg, Kosmonavt, Russia

29 November – Moscow, VOLTA, Russia

5 December – Athens, Votanikos, Greece

6 December – Thessaloniki, Bloc 33, Greece

21 May 2015 – London, Roundhouse

SWANS ONLINE

Website: http://younggodrecords.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SwansOfficial

Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialSwans

 

 Free download of A Little God In My Hands here: https://soundcloud.com/muterecords/swans-a-little-god

Listen to Oxygen here: http://youtu.be/1jSdTBGhDSg

Photograph credit: Fionn Reilly

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