The Lemonheads by Barry Brecheisen
Support on The Lemonheads’ tour includes Rusty, The Nils and Juliana Hatfield.
Evan Dando will mark 30 years of The Lemonheads’ It’s A Shame About Ray album with a winter 2022 tour of North America.
Originally released in the early spring of 1992, It’s A Shame About Ray took the band into the US and UK charts for the first time, fired – even if Dando hoped otherwise – by a certain Simon & Garfunkel cover.
“There is then of course the small matter of Mrs. Robinson, undertaken according to Dando on the strict understanding that it would be used solely in a Japan-only tribute to The Graduate’s 25th anniversary,” our review notes.
“It joined Suzanne Vega’s Luka in their repertoire, but in the fevered then-environment of the guitar as king, the scuzzy throwaway blasted Ray to half a million sales and would give Dando a shot at celebrity he was completely unprepared for. 30 years later, he’s still never played it live.”
Tour dates:
November
17 – Lititz, PA, Mickey’s Black Box
18 – Toronto, ON, Phoenix Theatre
19 – Cleveland, OH, Grog Shop
20 – Bloomington, IL, The Castle Theater
21 – Omaha, NE, The Waiting Room
23 – Billings, MT, Pub Station
25 – Seattle, WA, Showbox
26 – Portland, OR, Revolution Hall
28 – San Francisco, CA, Great American Music Hall
29 – Sacramento, CA, Harlow’s
December
1 – San Diego, CA, House Of Blues
2 – Santa Ana, CA, Observatory
3 – Las Vegas, NV, House Of Blues
4 – Salt Lake City, UT, The Complex
5 – Denver, CO, Bluebird Theatre
7 – Kansas City, MO, Madrid Theatre
9 – Minneapolis, MN, First Avenue
10 – Chicago, IL, Metro
11 – Detroit, MI, Saint Andrew’s Hall
12 – Washington, D.C., 9.30 Club
14 – Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer
15 – New York, NY, Le Poisson Rouge
16 – New Jersey, NJ, White Eagle Hall
17 – Boston, MA, Paradise
