Headline Tour Starts This Week With Appearances at The Fest, Fun Fun Fun, and Details for a Special Los Angeles Show Revealed…
„…one of the most grippingly direct hardcore albums in recent memory” – AV Club
„A staggering display of impassioned vocals, locked-in riffing and dizzying drumming.” Exclaim!
„A record of progression and refinement; released halfway through 2011, it will go down among the best of the heavy hitters this year.” Absolutepunk
Touche Amore is excited to announce their biggest support tour to date: a European run with Rise Against in February and March. Vocalist Jeremy Bolm commented, „”We’re looking forward to the experience of sharing the stage with Rise Against. These will be the largest venues we’ve ever played, and an opportunity we couldn’t pass up. We’ll be hitting over a dozen countries in under a month and we’ll announce some more intimate European shows along the way”.” Additionally, Touche Amore’s North American headline tour commences this week, taking the band across the US and Canada with Pianos Become The Teeth and others in tow. Highly coveted appearances are scheduled at The Fest in Gainesville, FL and Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, TX. The band is also excited to reveal that at their Los Angeles show on November 13th, they’ll be playing both of their albums, …To The Beat of a Dead Horse and Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me, back-to-back in their entirety – making this a once-in-a-lifetime event.
2011 has been a whirlwind year for Touche Amore. The band has spent the year touring hard – appearing at festivals like FYF, SXSW, Chaos in Tejas, Hevy Fest (UK), the House of Vans in Brooklyn, and canvas most of the globe, including the UK, Europe, Canada, Australia, and every nook and cranny in North America. Touche Amore released their Deathwish Inc debut, Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me, to immense critical acclaim earlier this summer and the Washington Post-Express called it „Hardcore punk that recalls pre-Fugazi D.C. band Rites of Spring: raw, ripping and ecstatic.” From the first strikes of their angular yet melodic chords, it’s apparent that Touche Amore have awoken something long forgotten in the hardcore/punk genre. Bringing to mind the balance of rage and melody that „Revolution Summer” era DC bands Rites of Spring and Ignition once carried. Within each song they build an awe inspiring musical tension while impassioned vocalist Jeremy Bolm’s shouts resonate, ripe with intellectual introspection. This collective outpouring of traditional hardcore anger and emotional hardcore openness ultimately coalesces into something beautiful, vulnerable, and refreshingly real.
Please get in touch ASAP to set up interviews with Touche Amore, secure tickets to an upcoming show, and to request review copies of Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me (perfect for your year-end lists!).
TOUCHÉ AMORÉ – ON TOUR
10/28 – Gainesville, FL – THE FEST @ Double Down Live
10/31 – Pembroke Pines, FL – The Talent Farm **
11/01 – Orlando, FL – The Haven **
11/02 – Birmingham, AL – The Firehouse **
11/03 – New Orleans, LA – Dragon’s Den w/ Pianos Become The Teeth
11/04 – Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Festival after show @ Red 7 w/ Doomriders
11/05 – Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Festival @ Auditorium Shores
11/07 – Dallas, TX – Sons Of Herman Hall*
11/08 – Oklahoma, OK – Conservatory*
11/09 – Albuquerque, NM – Gasworks*
11/10 – Phoenix, AZ – Secret Garden*
11/11 – San Diego, CA – Ché Café*
11/13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo Plex* (Special Event: both Touché Amoré albums being played back-to-back in their entirety)
11/14 – San Francisco, CA – Sub-Mission Art Space*
11/16 – Portland, OR – Branx*
11/17 – Seattle, WA – Vera Project*
11/18 – Boise, ID – Shredder*
11/19 – Ogden, UT – The Basement*
11/20 – Denver, CO – Blast-O-Mat*
11/22 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room*
11/23 – Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen*
11/25 – Cleveland, OH – Now That’s Class*
11/26 – Pittsburgh, PA – Altar Bar w/Thursday, Pianos Become The Teeth, Seahaven and more.
11/27 – Detroit, MI – Small’s*
11/28 – Toronto, ON – The Garrison*
11/29 – Montreal, QC – Underworld*
11/30 – Cambridge, MA – The Middle East Upstairs*
12/01 – New York, NY – Santo’s Party Haus*
12/02 – Purchase, NY – Purchase Collage*
12/03 – Philadelphia, PA – Broad Street Ministry*
12/04 – Washington, DC – Red Palace*
12/05 – Charlotte, NC – Casbah @ Tremont Music Hall*
12/06 –Columbia, SC – New Brookland Tavern*
12/07 –Wilmington, NC – Soapbox Laundro-Lounge*
12/08 – Nashville, TN – Rocketown*
12/09 – Memphis, TN – Escape Alley Sundry*
12/10 – St. Louis, MO – Fubar*
12/11 – Lawrence, KS – Jackpot Music Hall*
12/14: Las Vegas, NV – Hypnotic Lounge w/ Seahaven, Caravels
* w/ Pianos Become The Teeth, Seahaven
** w/ Circle Takes The Square, Pianos Become The Teeth, City Of Ships
TOUCHÉ AMORÉ w/ Rise Against
3/1 – Dortmund, DE – Westfalenhalle
3/2 – Stuttgart, DE – Schleyerhalle
3/3 – Berlin, DE – Arena
3/5 – Arhus, DK – Vox Hall
3/6 – Stockholm, SE – Arenan
3/7 – Oslo, NO – Sentrum Scene
3/8 – Helsinki, FI – The Circus
3/10 – Turku, FI – Logorno
3/15 – Warsaw, PL – Stodola
3/16 – Prague, CZ – Incheba Arena
3/18 – Leipzig, DE – Arena
3/19 – Budapest, HU – Symna Hall
3/20 – Vienna, AU – Stadthalle