MACHINE FUCKING HEAD, etc.
Machine Head have announced a huge European Tour which includes seven UK dates. For those who follow the band you would have noticed they've been particularly busy ripping venues apart on their "An Evening With Machine Head" tour which has the band playing extended live sets, without any support acts. Chatting about the format, front man Robb Flynn stated, "We are really excited about playing longer sets, throwing in some deep cuts, and just having it be our own world.... We did this in the US and eastern Europe recently and it’s worked amazingly well. Fans seem to really love the 'Evening With…' format for a band like us who has a long-standing and diverse catalogue."
Full list of tour dates:
Feb 02: Geneva L’Usine, Switzerland
Feb 04: Nimes Paloma, France
Feb 06: Santiago De Compostela Sala Capital, Spain
Feb 07: Porto Coliseum, Portugal
Feb 08: Lisbon Coliseum, Portugal
Feb 10: Granada Industrial Copera, Spain
Feb 11: Madrid Riviera, Spain
Feb 12: Barcelona Razzmatazz, Spain
Feb 14: Bordeaux Rocher De Palmer, France
Feb 15: Clermont Ferrand Coop De Mai, France
Feb 16: Paris Bataclan, France
Feb 19:Reims Cartonnerie, France
Feb 20: Lille Aeronef, France
Feb 21: Dortmund FZW, Germany
Feb 22: Stuttgart Longhorn LKA, Germany
Feb 24: Frankfurt Batschkapp, Germany
Feb 25: Dresden Alter Schlachthof, Germany
Feb 26: Hannover Capital, Germany
Feb 27: Berlin Huxley’s Neue Welt, Germany
Feb 29: Tilburg 013, Netherlands
Mar 02: Norwich Open, UK
Mar 03: Nottingham Rock City, UK
Mar 05: Belfast Limelight, UK
Mar 06: Dublin Olympia, Ireland
Mar 08: Manchester Academy, UK
Mar 10: Cardiff Great Hall, UK
Mar 11: London Hammersmith Apollo, UK
Mar 12: Glasgow O2 Academy, UK
Yep, that's 28 shows! Flynn added further, "We’re not trying to have a good time with a bunch of people who don’t know who we are. If MACHINE HEAD throws a party, big or small, we don’t want a bunch of ‘strangers’ there. This is about us and you guys, the die-hards, the Head Cases, The Fucking Undesirables! We don’t care about the others out there. We’re here and we’re not going anywhere.
If those people want to be a part of this, they know where to find us. So for the time being, and maybe ‘forever’, we’re done reaching out for them."
Tickets for all of these dates go on sale this Friday. You'll need to be quick.