The Smith Westerns will bring their ‘Soft Will’ album to Europe later this year for a run of shows which opens with two UK gigs.
An appearance at the 100 Club in London launches proceedings on September 17th, with a second and final English show then booked a day later at the Deaf Institute in Manchester.
The band move on to mainland Europe with a trip to the Incubate Festival in the Netherlands on September 20th, and continue on until the first day of October when a final concert is booked at John Dee in Oslo, Norway.
‘The Soft Will‘ was issued through Mom + Pop on June 11th after recording sessions during 2012 in the band’s hometown Chicago. They then decamped to New York and El Paso in Texas for more recording sessions with Beach House and Yeah Yeah Yeahs producer Chris Coady.
Tour dates:
SEPTEMBER
100 Club, London (17)
Deaf institute, Manchester (18)
Incubate Festival @ Tilburg, Netherlands (20)
Paradiso, Amsterdam (21)
Rotonde, Brussels, Belgium (22)
Le Pont Ephemere, Paris (23)
Magnet, Berlin (25)
Reeperbahn Festival @ Hamburg, Germany (26)
Vega, Copenhagen (27)
Radar, Aarhus, Denmark (28)
Pusterviksbaren, Gothenburg, Sweden (29)
The Strand, Stockholm (30)
OCTOBER
John Dee, Oslo (1)