Just announced! The Posies extend their Solid States tour with a run of dates in Spain in May:
May 24 – Valladolid @ Porta Caeli [tickets]
May 25 – Vigo @ La Iguana [tickets]
May 26 – A Coruña @ Mardi Gras [tickets]
May 27 – Ferrol @ Super 8 [tickets]
May 28 – Santander @ Escenario [tickets]
The Posies’ new album Solid States is out now on Lojinx CD, LP and digital.
After a triumphant run of dates across Europe in March & April the newly revitalised trio-format band head back to Europe in October, following a 27-date run of secret shows in the US.
The band have always been exploring, growing and 2016 sees them continuing in that vein. None of US shows were in conventional music venues, with the location only revealed to ticket holders not more than 24 hours in advance of each show. The band are now touring as a trio, with no bass player, and Solid States collaborator Frankie Siragusa on drums. New album Solid States was not recorded in the usual band-in-a-room manner. Stringfellow and Auer sent song ideas back and forth online, writing and largely recording the album separately – but collaboratively – in their home studios.
The autumn tour starts in Manchester on 27th October, ending on 9th November in Diksmuide, Belgium. Solid States is out now Lojinx CD, digital and heavyweight vinyl LP.
The Posies “Solid States” Autumn Tour Dates
27 Oct @ Night and Day, Manchester, UK [tickets]
28 Oct @ The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, UK [tickets]
29 Oct @ Brudenel Social Club, Leeds, UK [tickets]
30 Oct @ Louisiana, Bristol, UK [tickets]
01 Nov @ Blue Shell, Cologne GERMANY [tickets]
02 Nov @ Tivoli De Hellling, Utrecht, NETHERLANDS [tickets]
03 Nov @ 60, Amstelveen, NETHERLANDS[tickets]
04 Nov @ Kroepoekfabriek, Vlaardingen, NETHERLANDS [tickets]
05 Nov @ Gebr De Nobel, Leiden, NETHERLANDS [tickets]
06 Nov @ Luxor Live, Arnhem, NETHERLANDS tickets]
09 Nov @ 4AD, Diksmuide, BELGIUM [tickets]
Tickets available from Friday 3rd June.
Ken Stringfellow will be releasing “I Never Said I’d Make It Easy: a Ken Stringfellow Collection” next year, and the record includes a new song, “Kids Don’t Follow.” Here is the tracklist:
1. Any Sign At All
2. Down Like Me
3. Find Yourself Alone
4. Sparrow
5. Reveal Love
6. Here’s To The Future
7. Airscape
8. Don’t Break The Silence
9. Ask Me No Questions
10. Kids Don’t Follow
11. You Drew
12. Any Love (Cassandra Et Lune)
13. Known Diamond
14. Cyclone Graves
15. Death of a City
16. Never My Love
The expected iTunes release date is 3 January 2014.
Ken’s new album Danzig In The Moonlight is available for pre-order! Set for release 1 October on Lojinx, you place your order at danziginthemoonlight.com, where several limited-edition bundles are available. More information:
I’ve made some extra items including a vinyl single with a unique, only-available-here track called “The Well” which was just recorded in Cordoba days ago (next to a very old well–they say: “write what you know”), the first ever Ken Stringfellow T shirt, and of course the album in all its digital and analog glory. Hi quality double vinyl cut by the lab coat wearing geeks at Abbey Road. CDs with deluxe packaging, both wrapped in intricate artwork by some of Holland’s most cutting edge illustrators and designers.