Uk Tour Dates to promote Fountain

by **King Of Kings** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:16 am

These were promised to be announced last week.

I know it seems Like I moan a lot, but the management don't do them selves any favours.

I would truly love to sing the "new bunnys" praises but they leave me little choice.

May be Will is gonna become a full time "Wild Swan"

Now that woul be intresting.

Talking of which if we were to look at the wild swan home page. Very informative and upto date.

by **black francis** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:35 am

We all piss and moan here. We wouldn't have much else in our lives if we didn't. But I agree management does themselves no favors whatsoever.

by **Dr Cheese** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:55 am

I thought I'd read that there were only 4 UK dates anyway, what sort of half-arsed "tour" is that! I don't know why they're bothering.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:16 pm

Depends what venues they play. The band had smaller audiences when they last did a full proper nationwide tour (circa 2001). The fewer venues like for Ocean Rain got more punters in. Better venues mean tickets can be charged at higher prices as well.

If it's a greatest hits tour again with the usual suspects - The Cutter, Rescue, NLF, Ocean Rain, Lips, Never Stop, BOTDH, VT, Seven Seas - plus a sprinkling of tracks off The Fountain, I won't be going.

by **black francis** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:12 pm

Being a ghost and all I would imagine you could get in for free. May as well.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:50 pm

I wouldn't even bother wasting my ghostly powers to get in free if it was the greatest hits tour. Perhaps I should start haunting Mac kind of like in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. "Mac-scrooge... mac-scrooge... I am the ghost of guitarplayer. You will play The Game, In Bluer Skies and other songs that you have not played for over 20 years.. Woo!"

by **Dr Evil** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:06 pm

Personally I wish I had the Heroes power of persuasion to force Mac to play In Bluer Skies, No Dark Things and Flaming Red.
Or maybe threatening to detonate a home made nuclear bomb in Liverpool unless I get my setlist (I was only joking, why did you guys kick the door in?...Whats the orange suit for?- Hey get that bag off of my head...)

by **black francis** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:24 pm

Those homemade nuclear bombs are nothing but trouble. You can dress them up but you can't take them anywhere.

by **In The Margins** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:50 pm

Just for you KoK, from twitter:

Uk dates on. Bunnymen.com tonight pre sale links from Thursday
about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

by **tonywojo** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:03 pm

the ghost of guitarplayer wrote:Depends what venues they play. The band had smaller audiences when they last did a full proper nationwide tour (circa 2001). The fewer venues like for Ocean Rain got more punters in. Better venues mean tickets can be charged at higher prices as well.

If it's a greatest hits tour again with the usual suspects - The Cutter, Rescue, NLF, Ocean Rain, Lips, Never Stop, BOTDH, VT, Seven Seas - plus a sprinkling of tracks off The Fountain, I won't be going.

How will you know, ghost?

by **Frank The Bunny** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:34 pm

Dr Evil wrote:detonate a home made nuclear bomb in Liverpool

how long do ya think it would take for someone to notice?

by **black francis** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:08 pm

Ouch .

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:11 am

tonywojo wrote:How will you know, ghost?

Well that's the problem isn't it? Nobody will know until the gigs are played. I just don't know if I'll go. I can't really stomach a night of greatest hits again. A few years back I would have gone just just with the hope that something else had been added to the setlist. It did happen with Going Up, With A Hip, Show of Strength, The Disease all coming in, and hearing those live for the first time made up for having to listen to the rest of the old samey setlist. But there hasn't been anything new added since 2005 when a few tracks were added from Siberia. Apart from Ocean Rain at the Albert Hall, which was a totally different experience, I stopped going to Bunnymen gigs six years ago.

Maybe I'll wait to decide nearer the time.

by **Kounelaki** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:25 am

The Fountain UK Tour Dates

Echo & The Bunnymen are pleased to be able to bring you the dates for The Fountain UK tour. Exclusive pre sale ticket links will go live via the Live section of Bunnymen.com from 9AM (GMT) 30/07/09 and then on general release from 31/07/09.

12/10/09 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

13/10/09 Manchester Ritz

14/10/09 Glasgow Barrowlands

15/10/09 London Roundhouse

by **In The Margins** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:15 pm

http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Music-Revi ... house-date

Echo & The Bunnymen announce Roundhouse date

Story by Jack Foley

ECHO and the Bunnymen have announced a handful of live dates this autumn, including a night at London’s Roundhouse.

The gigs are in support of new album, The Fountain, which is described as “a superbly feisty album of pulsating, uplifting rock anthems”.

The Fountain was kick-started in 2007 when frontman McCulloch began working on some new ideas with three London-based musicians.

“I thought Will [Sergeant] and I needed to do stuff differently, but so the result still sounded like the Bunnymen,” he explains. “What we got with Think I Need It Too and Forgotten Fields, I thought, ‘Yeah, this is how it should sound.’”

The album was pieced together over the next year, with Mac and Will working on tracks at Parr Street Recording Studios in Liverpool.

It will be preceded by the single Think I Need It Too on September 28. The Fountain is released on October 12.

Tickets for Manchester are £22.50 and London £23.50 and go on general sale on Friday, July 31 at 9am.

The dates are (all October 2009):

12 – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
13 – Manchester The Ritz
14 – Glasgow Barrowlands
15 – London Roundhouse

Uk Tour Dates to promote Fountain

Uk Tour Dates to promote Fountain

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