Death From Above 1989 and Eagles of Death Metal are joining forces to go on tour together. Both bands will be performing together on each others tours but are co-headlining a Canadian tour in the Spring.
The nine-date Canadian tour starts on April 26th and goes until May 8th.
Sebastian Grainger from Death From Above 1979 discussed the band’s admiration for Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes in a statement posted on Consequence of Sound:
“It began back in 2005 on tour with Queens Of The Stone Age when EODM founding member, Joshua Homme, mentioned that he had a friend back home with a better mustache than ours (our band doesn’t share ONE mustache, we had one each). That friend back home was Jesse Hughes. Jesse is what I would consider a real rock-and-roll creature. He was born in a jean jacket.
“In fact, he was wearing a jean jacket when our fates collided for a second time: Christmas shopping at a Best Buy in the Atwater Village area of L.A., December 24th, 2012. I saw him from across the parking lot wearing a Canadian tuxedo (Google Image search!) and aviator sunglasses. I thought to myself: There’s only one other rock-and-roller on earth baddass enough to face a shopping tsunami at a major electronics big-box on Christmas Eve, Jesse from EODM. I creepily admired him from afar while I shopped for a Bluetooth speaker. The only difference between him and I at that moment is that he looked like the lead singer in a rock-and-roll band and I looked like Val Kilmer in Weird Science.
“The next stop on the Wheel-Of-Fortune-Of-Life brought us together in a dusty barbecue shack in the Mojave desert. I was hunched over a pile of charred bones, my face and hands so sticky with sauce I looked like a hyena feasting on the African savanna. I looked up from the carnage and who did I see? Two tremendous Eagles: Dave Catching and Joshua Homme. Eagles Of Death Metal are like peyote; You don’t find them, they find you. I did them the service of washing up the gore before walking over and saying “Hello, it’s me”.
“If all of this seems like a crazy reason to go on tour together, I think you’re crazy.
“Canada, get ready for real rock-and-roll and wear your tuxedos.”
Death From Above 1979 and Eagles of Death Metal Spring 2016 Tour Dates:
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04/26 – Port Coquitlam, BC @ PNE Forum *
04/28 – Edmonton, AB @ Shaw Conference Centre *
04/29 – Calgary, AB @ Grey Eagle Event Centre *
04/30 – Saskatoon, SK @ O’Brians Event Centre *
05/01 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre *
05/04 – London, ON @ London Music Hall *
05/05 – Montreal, QC @ Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre *
05/06 – Hamilton, ON @ Hamilton Convention Centre *
05/08 – Quebec, QC @ L’Imperial Bell *
* = w/ Turbowolf
Death From Above 1979 2016 Tour Dates:
04/26 – Port Coquitlam, BC @ PNE Forum ^
04/28 – Edmonton, AB @ Shaw Conference Centre ^
04/29 – Calgary, AB @ Grey Eagle Event Centre ^
04/30 – Saskatoon, SK @ O’Brians Event Centre ^
05/01 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre ^
05/04 – London, ON @ London Music Hall ^
05/05 – Montreal, QC @ Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre ^
05/06 – Hamilton, ON @ Hamilton Convention Centre ^
05/08 – Quebec, QC @ L’Imperial Bell ^
05/20 – Columbus, OH @ Rock on the Range
^ = w/ Eagles of Death Metal and Turbowolf
Eagles of Death Metal 2016 Tour Dates:
02/13 – Stockholm, SE @ Debaser Medis
02/14 – Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene
02/16 – Paris, FR @ Olympia
02/18 – Munich, DE @ Tonhalle
02/19 – Zagreb, HR @ Tvornica Kulture
02/20 – Budapest, HU @ Akvarium
02/22 – Vienna, AT @ Arena
02/23 – Zurich, CH @ Komplex
02/25 – Brussels, BE @ Forest Club
02/27 – Treviso, IT @ New Age
02/28 – Turin, IT @ 10100
02/29 – Rome, IT @ Orion
03/02 – Nimes, FR @ La Paloma
03/03 – Barcelona, ES @ Apolo
03/04 – Madrid, ES @ Joy Eslava
03/05 – Lisbon, PT @ Coliseum
03/07 – Lille, FR @ Le Splendid
03/12 – Sao Paulo, BR @ Lollapalooza Brazil
03/15 – Sao Paulo, BR @ Cine Joia
03/18 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Lollapalooza Argentina
03/19 – Santiago, CL @ Lollapalooza Chile
04/26 – Port Coquitlam, BC @ PNE Forum ^
04/28 – Edmonton, AB @ Shaw Conference Centre ^
04/29 – Calgary, AB @ Grey Eagle Event Centre ^
04/30 – Saskatoon, SK @ O’Brians Event Centre ^
05/01 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre ^
05/04 – London, ON @ London Music Hall ^
05/05 – Montreal, QC @ Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre ^
05/06 – Hamilton, ON @ Hamilton Convention Centre ^
05/08 – Quebec, QC @ L’Imperial Bell ^
05/14 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Music Festival
06/03 – New York, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival
08/09 – Katowice, PL @ Mega Club
08/11 – Copenhagen, DK @ Amager Bio
08/15 – Bremen, DE @ Aladin
08/16 – Cologne, DE @ Live Music Hall
08/21 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Music Festival
^ = w/ Death From Above 1979 and Turbowolf
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