Scotland's Mogwai have announced several North American tour dates in support of their forthcoming Batcat Ep, due on September 9th.
The monolithic quintet are expected to tour from coast to coast taking in major cities including New York, Dallas and San Francisco. Canada, meanwhile, will be treated to shows in Vancouver, British Columbia and Montreal. The excellently-titled Fuck Buttons will tour in support eager to capitalise on their blog-hero status.
The tour dates are as follows:
Sep 3 - Portland, Music Fest NW
Sep 4 - Seattle, Showbox SoDo
Sep 5 - British Columbia, Element Victoria
Sep 6 - Vancouver, Commodore Ballroom
Sep 8 - San Francisco, The Grand Ballroom
Sep 9 - Los Angeles, Wiltern Theatre
Sep 10 - Tuscon, The Rialto
Sep 12 - Austin, Stubbs Waller Creek
Sep 13 - Dallas, Granada Theatre
Sep 15 - Atlanta, Variety Playhouse
Sep 16 - Virginia, The National Richmond
Sep 17 - Washington, 9:30 Club Washington
Sep 18 - New York, Terminal 5
Sep 19 - Philidelphia, Starlight Ballroom
Sep 21 - New York, ATP
Sep 22 - Boston, Wilbur Theatre
Sep 23 - Montreal, Metropolis
Sep 25 - Pontiac, The Crofoot
Sep 26 - Chicago, Congress Theatre
Sep 27 - Minneapolis, First Avenue
Mogwai have had a busy start to the year, remastering and reissuing their seminal debut "Mogwai Young Team" while recording their next record "The Hawk Is Howling" which is also due in September 2008. Several new songs were previewed at a recent Glasgow gig, with track titles including "Scotland's Shame", "Thank You Space Expert" and "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead".
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