Barbara, the new album from We Are Scientists, is now available to American folks, and a busy summer tour now follows.
The band’s travels will begin in Europe with a series of festival appearances, the first being at the Germany based Southside Festival on June 18th. They’ll then makes stops at Glastonbury, Oxegen, and a bunch of other festivals and venues across the UK and Europe before heading home in mid-July.
We Are Scientist’s latest is receiving more attention in Europe than in North America, which may explain why the outfit is branding the North American tour the “The American Barbarian Tour”. Following the Oxegen appearance, the group will land in Boston on July 13th and hit all the major East Coast markets before aiming Midwest. They’ll then cross quickly through Portland and Seattle on their way to their early August dates in Australia. California will get some love after Australia, and then the band finishes off the world tour with some more European fests — including Reading & Leeds — in late August.
The endeavor will feature new drummer Andy Burrows, formerly of Razorlight, whose first appearance with the band is on Barbara. Also, The Whigs and Chew Lips will tag along for a string of U.K. shows (the “Four-on-the-Floor Tour”) next week.
The tour dates are listed below, and you can get tickets for them on Ticketmaster or Seatgeek.com.
We Are Scientists 2010 Tour Dates:
06/18 – Neuhausen ob Eck, DE @ Southside Festival
06/19 – Scheeßel, DE @ Hurricane Festival
06/20 – Utrecht, NL @ Helling
06/21 – Cambridge, UK @ Junction *
06/22 – Wolverhampton, UK @ Wulfrun Hall *#
06/24 – Sheffield, UK @ Leadmill *#
06/25 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy *#
06/27 – Pilton, UK @ Glastonbury Music Festival
07/03 – Albany, NY @ Pearl-palooza
07/08 – Hultsfred, SE @ Hultsfred Festival
07/10 – Kinross, UK @ T inhe Park Festival
07/11 – Eadestown, IE @ Oxegen Festival
07/13 – Boston, MA @ Middle East
07/14 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
07/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
07/16 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat
07/17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
07/19 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
07/20 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig
07/21 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
07/23 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
07/26 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
07/28 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s
08/01 – Brisbane, AU @ Splendour in the Grass
08/03 – Sydney, AU @ Metro
08/04 – Melbourne, AU @ Prince of Wales
08/06 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
08/07 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
08/19 – Kiewit, BE @ Pukkelpop Festival
08/20 – Salzburg, AT @ Frequency Festival
08/21 – Gampel, CH @ Gampel Open Air Festival
08/28 – Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
08/29 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
* = w/ The Whigs
# = w/ Chew Lips
