Land of Talk have announced a west coast tour beginning October 27th in San Diego, and running through November 7th in Vancouver B.C.. To complement to tour, the band will be releasing an EP with 4 new songs and 3 videos, entitled ‘Fun and Laughter’. After having been sidelined for much of the year with a vocal ailment, front woman Elizabeth Powell is now gearing up for a busy fall. Here are the tour dates and the EP tracklisting:
Tour Dates:
10/27 - San Diego, CA, Casbah
10/29 - Los Angeles, CA, Spaceland
10/30 - Visalia , CA, Cellar Door
11/02 - San Francisco, CA, Cafe DuNord
11/04 - Portland, OR, Doug Fir
11/05 - Seattle, WA, High Dive
11/06 - Bellingham, WA, The Nightlight
11/07 - Vancouver, BC, Biltmore Cabaret
Track Listing:
Sixteen Asterisk
May You Never (1996)
As Me
A Series Of Small Flames
The Man Who Breaks Things (Dark Shuffle) - Video
Troubled - Video
Some Are Lakes - Video
Montreal trio Land of Talk have announced North American Fall tour plans in support of their debut full-length, Some Are Lakes, set for release October 7 via Saddle Creek in America and self-released through Secret City distribution in Canada. Touring will kick off with a special performance in New York City, September 11 at The Mercury Lounge, before two-weeks of east coast Canadian dates. The band will then commence a three-week run of U.S. dates opening for Broken Social Scene, starting October 8 in Grand Rapids, MI.
Land Of Talk front person, Elizabeth Powell, will join Broken Social Scene each night on the tour as guest vocalist on various songs throughout their set in addition to Land of Talk’s opening performance. Elizabeth can be heard contributing vocals on the acclaimed Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning Something For All Of Us…. album as well as the soundtrack to the Broken Social Scene scored film The Tracey Fragments, starring Ellen Page.
The soon to be released Some Are Lakes continues to showcase the bands powerful dynamics, raw musical and Powell’s vocal convictions which Time Out NY called, “a voice that flits between come-hither and go-fuck-yourself.”
See for yourself! All tour details are as follows:
8/9/08 – Wolfe Island, ON @ Wolfe Island Festival
9/11/08 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
9/13/08 – Quebec City, PQ @ Envol & Macadam Festival +
9/18/08 – Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod’s
9/19/08 – Montreal, PQ @ La Sala Rosa
9/20/08 – Kingston, ON @ The Grad Club
9/22/08 – Laval, PQ @ CEJEP
9/23/08 – Sherbrooke, PQ @ Telephone Rouge
9/24/08 – Peterborough, ON @ Montreal House
9/25/08 – Guelph, ON @ E Bar
9/26/08 – Hamilton, ON @ Casbah
9/27/08 – Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dee’s
10/8/08 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Calvin College *
10/11/08 – Madison, WI @ Union Theatre/Univ. of Wisconsin *
10/13/08 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
10/14/08 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown *
10/16/08 – Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont *
10/17/08 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note *
10/18/08 – St. Louis, MO @ The Gargoyle *
10/19/08 – Urbana, IL @ Foellinger Auditorium/Univ. of Illinois *
10/21/08 – Richmond, VA @ Toad’s Place *
10/22/08 – Falls Church, VA @ State Theatre *
10/24/08 – Brooklyn, NY @ Masonic Temple *
10/25/08 – Brunswick, ME @ Bowdoin College *
10/26/08 – Boston, MA @ Wilburt Theatre *
+ w/ Islands & Sebastian Grainger
* w/ Broken Social Scene
Here’s a cool tune by Land of Talk called “Speak to me bones”: