Machine Head Confirm Summer Run Of Intimate UK Dates
Wednesday, 09 April 2014
Written by Huw Baines
Machine Head have confirmed an intimate run of club shows for the summer.
The metal legends will tackle dates in Nottingham, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Norwich and Brighton between July 29 and August 4, with Robb Flynn keen to replicate their plans for a tour of intimate US halls in the next few months. He said:
"In keeping with the intimate club tour-vibe we are doing in the USA this summer, for our first time ever, we decided to blow off 90% of all Euro summer festivals, and hit the nooks and crannies of the UK and Europe as well. We will be doing no major cities in any territories throughout Europe and the UK for this first leg of 2014. No London, no Berlin, etc, and instead focusing on the die-hard Machine Head fans that who don't often get the chance to see us because the travel is too far or too costly to get the big cities.
"I remember when we were out with Metallica doing festivals a few years ago, we played in a small out-of-the-way city in Denmark called Aarhus. We'd never played there let alone, ever even heard of the fucking place. We were all a bit grumbly before the show, and you know what? It ended up being one of the most fun shows we've ever done. Doing shows like this, it creates an energy, it creates a bond, something unbreakable, and it is really fucking fun.
"It's Machine Head without all the big production, the bells and whistles, stripped down and raw. What will be really cool is that in the UK, we've never done a club tour, it happened so fast for us there that other than a handful of epically insane, wildly drunken Ten Ton Hammer club shows, we've only played bigger halls, so we are really looking forward to giving our fans something special there. Plus, we've been hearing from our Scottish fans for decades that we need to get to Edinburgh. So finally, 21 years into our existence, we're coming and we're ready to fucking plunder Scotland!"
Machine Head will release a demo version of Killers & Kings on 10" vinyl for Record Store Day on April 19. Work on their new album, the follow up to 2011's 'Unto The Locust', is ongoing.
Machine Head Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows:
Tue July 29 2014 - NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms
Thu July 31 2014 - EDINBURGH Liquid Rooms
Sat August 02 2014 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE University
Sun August 03 2014 - NORWICH Waterfront
Mon August 04 2014 - BRIGHTON Concorde 2
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