Swedish Pain of Salvation have just kicked off their highly anticiapted, acoustic based European tour, which seens them joined Dutch singer/songwriter Anneke Van Giersbergen (ex The Gathering) and Árstíðir from Iceland for a truly outstanding, different live experience.
Specially for this tour, Pain of Salvation are building up a 70’s style living room stage-set and came up with special PoS song-material from all eras, which has been reworked and rearranged for this show. The band will also cooperate and interact with Anneke van Giersbergen and Arstidir throughout the show in order to create a truly memorable event that breaks out of the traditional opener/opener/headline structure. Additionally, Swedish multitalent Roger Öjersson (Kamchatka, Tiamat) will be joining PoS on guitar and vocals for this tour.
Pain of Salvation’s Daniel Gildenlöw checked to comment as follows:
„This is a very different kind if tour, and even though we have lots of stuff and goodies planned for the first gig in Krakow, my gut feeling tells me that, as soon as we are on the buses with the other musicians, this tour will be take on an ever-changing nature and no two shows will be alike.
Truly looking forward to it!”
Here are all the dates of the European tour:
PAIN OF SALVATION – Acoustic-Tour 2013
Special guests: Anneke Van Giersbergen & Árstíðir
03.04.13 – Krakow (Poland) – Kwadrat
04.04.2013 – Warsaw (Poland) – Progresja
05.04.2013 – Prague (Czech Republic) – Klub Nova Chmelnice
06.04.2013 – Bratislava (Slovakia) – Majestic Music Club
07.04.2013 – Budapest (Hungary) – Club 202
08.04.2013 – Wien (Austria) – Szene
10.04.2013 – Bologna (Italy) – Estragon
11.04.2013 – Rome (Italy) – Orion
12.04.2013 – Milano (Italy) – Magazzini Generali
13.04.2013 – Yverdon (Switzerland) – Amalgame
14.04.2013 – Toul (France) – Chez Paulette
15.04.2013 – London (UK) – The Garage
17.04.2013 – Paris (France) – Le Trabendo
18.04.2013 – Pratteln (Switzerland) – Z7
19.04.2013 – Weert (The Netherlands) – De Bosuil
20.04.2013 – Zoetermeer (The Netherlands) – Boerderij
21.04.2013 – Essen (Germany) – Turock
Furthermore, Pain of Salvation will be heading out to tour in North America in May.
Confirmed dates for the band’s long overduereturn to the US and Canada are as follows:
PAIN OF SALVATION North American Tour 2013
with Kingcrow & Imminent Sonic Destruction
May 1st–West Springfield, VA @ Empire
May 2nd–White Marsh, MD @ House of Rock
May 4th–Gettysburg, PA @ Rosfest **PAIN OF SALVATION only**
May 5th–New York, NY @ The Marlin Room at Webster Hall
May 7th–Quebec City, QB @ Le Cercle
May 8th–Montreal, QB @ Foufounes Electriques
May 9th–Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club
May 10th–Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s
May 11th–Minneapolis, MN @ Station 4
After this next run of touring, Pain of Salvation’s are set to wrap up work on their upcoming album release via InsideOutMusic, featuring newly recorded acoustic versions of classic PoS songs.
More details about this special album-project will be made public soon…
Pain of Salvation’s latest album release, “Road Salt Two”, managed to enter the official national charts upon release in Autumn of 2011 in the following European countries: Sweden at # 24, The Netherlands at # 82, Finland at # 31, and Norway at # 51 in its second week (first week was at # 94).
Additionally to the standard album on CD and Digital Download format, “Road Salt One” and its follow-up twin-release “Road Salt Two”, are also available in limited edition Digipak format and as Gatefold LP on 180g. black vinyl.
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