Alise Marie
Mercury Rev have added some more US dates to the touring marking the 20th anniversary of their Deserter’s Songs album and which is due to start in Europe later this month.
Following on from the previously announced appearance at Desert Daze in California will be headline October shows in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Brooklyn.
“We had no management, no label, no money and to be completely honest, no one clamoring for a new Rev album anywhere in the world,” Jonathan Donahue has remembered. “In fact, on the 2″ tapes during the late recordings Dave Fridmann didn’t write Mercury Rev and instead he used the name Harmony Rockets, a recent experimental side project of ours.”
“The way we saw it, Deserter’s wasn’t going to be our next album…it was going to be our last. And likely only released on cassette to our friends…In fact, the only copy I’ve kept of Deserter’s Songs from that time is on cassette.”
“If anything, these upcoming live shows are by far the closest in spirit and nature to the original writing of that time. Near silent, apprehensive, fragile to the point of ‘touch it and it turns to dust’. So full of self-doubt.”
“The melancholy many hear on the album went in to album from the start, maybe long before it. Like from a mother to her unborn child, sadness and bewilderment just poured out us and into the album like an open cup.”
Tour dates:
April
14 – Genk, Little Waves Festival
16,17 – Bangor, Wesley Centenary Church
18 – Limerick, Dolans Warehouse
19 – Waterford, Theatre Royal
20 – Cork, Live at St Luke’s
21 – Galway, Roisin Dubh
22 – Dublin, Whelans
24 – Stirling, The Tolbooth
25 – Edinburgh, The Caves
26 – Aberdeen, Tunnels
27 – Glasgow, CCA
29 – Copenhagen, Hotel Cecil
May
1 – Stockholm, Fasching
2 – Oslo, John Dee
October
12-14 – Desert Daze Festival
16 – The Chapelm San Francisco, CA
18 – Mississippi Studiosm Portland, OR
19 – Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA
26 – Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY