Glasvegas US Debut Tour To Include Headline Performances & Radio City
Music Hall Gig with Echo & the Bunnymen
NEW YORK, Aug. 18 -- Recently signed to Columbia Records,
the newly rising UK rock ensemble Glasvegas, proclaimed as "The Best New
Band in Britain" by the NME, will set in motion its first-ever North American tour
this fall with a series of headline clubland performances. Glasvegas receive
been personally selected by Ian McCulloch to straight support his band Echo
& The Bunnymen when they play the legendary Radio City Music Hall on
October 1 (please see total itinerary following).
Glasvegas -- 1st US Concert Tour
9/29/08 Boston, MA Great Scott (headline)
9/30/08 Philadelphia, PA North Star Bar (headline)
10/1/08 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall (w/Echo &
the Bunnymen)
10/2/08 Baltimore, MD Ottobar (headline)
10/3/08 Washington DC Rock 'n' Roll Hotel (headline)
10/4/08 New York, NY Mercury Lounge (headline)
Glasvegas' upcoming fall mini-tour of the states marks the group's
low gear US concert appearances since forming in Glasgow, Scotland in early
2006. An early Glasvegas performance at Glasgow's mythic King Tut's Wah Wah
Hut (a 300 capacity hall renowned passim the UK as a new talent
showcase and prescient innkeeper to shows by then-emerging artists like Oasis,
Radiohead, Beck, Travis and others) caught the attention of British music
mogul and tastemaker Alan McGee, who heralded Glasvegas as "The most
exciting thing I've heard since Jesus and Mary Chain." McGee's "Death Disco
TV" was the first boob tube outlet to broadcast Glasvegas.
Glasvegas released its offset DIY unmarried, "Go Square Go!," on October
30, 2006. The group's 2007 follow-up single, the limited edition 7"
"Daddy's Gone" was voted the #2 Single of the Year by the NME. Shortly
after releasing the band's third gear limited edition single, "It's My Own
Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry," on Valentine's Day, 2008, Glasvegas took
home the Philip Hall Radar Award (a prestigious unexampled band pillage voted on by
the NME staff) at the Shockwaves NME Awards 2008.
Glasvegas came in at #4 on the BBC News Sound of 2008 Top 10 poll of
the UK's brightest new acts as selected by approximately cl of UK-based
music writers, editors and broadcasters. According to the BBC, "Glasvegas
draw on rockabilly and pop from the fifties and '60s, using a backdrop of
brooding guitars to make their own wall of sound, a bit like the Jesus
and Mary Chain playing the Grease soundtrack."
Glasvegas has spent much of 2008 building a reputation as one of the
UK's top live bands. The group's concert dates in Scotland sold-out in
under a week and the UK music press lathered praises on Glasvegas for the
group's performances at a number of high profile festivals including SRO
shows at Glastonbury and T In The Park.
The songs of Glasvegas have been played near 800,000 times on the
group's MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/glasvegas) where the Glasvegas
profile has been viewed close to 900,000 times.
The members of Glasvegas -- James Allan (vocals, round guitar), Rab
Allan (lead guitar, backing vocals), Paul Donoghue (bass guitar, backing
vocals) and Caroline McKay (drums) -- were in America earlier this year
recording the band's self-titled debut album at Brooklyn Recording Studios
with production by Glasvegas frontman James Allan and Rich Costey
(Interpol, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Mew). The album premieres new recordings
of the group's early singles "Daddy's Gone" and "It's My Own Cheating Heart
That Makes Me Cry," as well as new songs including "Geraldine," the debut
single from the album. Released in the UK on June 16, "Geraldine" reached
#16 on the UK charts and #1 on the NME singles chart.
Glasvegas, one of the year's most heavy anticipated UK album debuts,
is slated for stateside release on Columbia Records in early 2009.
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