On November 20 of last year, while everyone in America was busy pre-cooking their spectacular Thanksgiving dinners and not reading music websites for news concerning UK bummer-core bands, FatCat Records quietly released a remixed version of the UK bummer-core band The Twilight Sad’s saddest album to date, No One Can Ever Know. The collection, unfussily titled No One Can Ever Know - The Remixes, featured, you guessed it, “takes on cuts from The Twilight Sad’s acclaimed recent album No One Can Ever Know by established acts such as Liars, Tom Furse of The Horrors, and Com Truise.” How totally unsurprising! And, at the same time, utterly surprising!
Anyway, since an entire continent was not paying attention at the time, the band has announced that they’re coming over to the US this spring (a notoriously slow news season) as a “stripped back 3-piece” to support that remix album… and, I guess, the album it was remixed from… and, I guess, the band Frightened Rabbit, with whom they’ll be touring. No, seriously; they really did “announce” it. Here’s the announcement:
We’re very happy to announce that we will be supporting our good friends Frightened Rabbit on their West Coast dates in North America. During a night in the pub with FR we both agreed we’d love to tour with each other again and they suggested we come do some shows with them as a stripped back 3-piece which they have seen us do back home in Scotland many times before. We agreed, so that’s what we’re doing. These stripped back shows will give people in North America the opportunity to see the band in a different way. We’re hoping it will showcase how important our songwriting process is and having a good song to begin with before adding the production is to our band.
I hope for the band’s sake that none of these dates interfere with America’s Downton Abbey schedule. Because I don’t know about you, but I’ve only got room for so many UK bummers.
03.08.13 - Seattle, WA - Showbox *
03.09.13 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre *
03.11.13 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore *
03.12.13 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up *
03.13.13 - Los Angeles, CA - Music Box / Fonda *
03.18.13 - Denver, CO - Gothic Theatre *
03.19.13 - Lincoln, NE - Bourbon Theatre *
03.21.13 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater *
03.22.13 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater *
03.23.13 - Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre *
03.24.13 - Nashville, TN - 3rd & Lindsley*
03.26.13 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogarts*
03.27.13 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall*
* Frightened Rabbit
No One Can Ever Know - The Remixes tracklisting:
01. Sick (Brokenchord Remix)
02. Sick (Com Truise Remix)
03. Nil (Liars Remix)
04. Not Sleeping (Tom Furse Dub mix)
05. Alphabet (Instrumental) (JD Twitch/ Optimo Remix)
06. Not Sleeping (Warsnare Remix)
07. Nil (Breton Remix)
08. Alphabet (Ambassadeurs Remix)
09. Sick (Brokenchord Remix 2)
• The Twilight Sad: http://thetwilightsad.com
• FatCat: http://fat-cat.co.uk
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