The American singer/songwriter has just announced that he will be taking his solo act on a pretty extensive North American tour, that includes his appearances at Coachella this year. The tour will be in support of his new album Pure Comedy, slotted for release on April 7. The tour is set to kick off on March 26 at the 6Music Festival in Glasgow, UK; then will take Tillman immediately over to California to begin the North American stint and eventually wrap up back in the UK, fittingly, at the End of the Road Festival in Dorset on August 31 through September 3. For a full list of tour dates and ticketing information, see below.
The new album has seen a few single releases as well as a 25-minute film, seen below, that captures the live-tracking of the album in black and white. This will be the third studio LP for Tillman and will once again be released on Sub Pop, the same label that released his first two albums. For a full track list and the album’s cover art, see below.
As reported by Brooklyn Vegan, Father John Misty has this to say of his album’s title track:
Pure Comedy is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. The species’ only hope for survival, finding itself on a cruel, unpredictable rock surrounded by other species who seem far more adept at this whole thing (and to whom they are delicious), is the reliance on other, slightly older, half-formed brains. This reliance takes on a few different names as their story unfolds, like “love,” “culture,” “family,” etc. Over time, and as their brains prove to be remarkably good at inventing meaning where there is none, the species becomes the purveyor of increasingly bizarre and sophisticated ironies. These ironies are designed to help cope with the species’ loathsome vulnerability and to try and reconcile how disproportionate their imagination is to the monotony of their existence.
Something like that.
Pure Comedy was produced by Tillman and his long time producer Jonathan Wilson. The vocals for the album were recorded to tape immediately after Tillman wrote them in 2015. There was string, horn, and choral support support added to the album by Gavin Bryars.
UPDATE (4/25): Additional tour dates have been added to the tour, seen below.
Father John Misty Spring 2017 Tour:
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05-05-06 Toronto, Ontario – Royal Alexandra Theatre %
05-10 Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre %
05-11 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel !
05-13 Mayer, AZ – FORM Arcosanti Festival
05-15 Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre %
05-24 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre #
05-26 Burnaby, British Columbia – Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park
06-07 Mexico City, Mexico – Metropolitan Theatre ***
06-21-25 Somerset, England – Glastonbury
06-22-24 Oslo, Norway – Piknik I Parken Festival
06-23-25 Ewjik, Netherlands – Down the Rabbit Hole Festival
06-27 Lund, Sweden – Merejet !!
06-28 Stockholm, Sweden – Cirkus !!
06-30 Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07-21-23 Wooyung, Australia – Splendour in the Grass Festival
07-28-30 Niigata, Japan – Fuji Rock Festival
08-04-06 Montreal, Quebec – Osheaga Festival
08-18 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Interstellar Rodeo – The Forks
08-19 Minneapolis, MN – Surly Brewing Festival Field *
08-25 Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre **
08-26 Portland, OR – Project Pabst
08-31-09-03 Dorset, England – End of the Road Festival
Updated Tour Dates:
09-01-03 Stradbally, Ireland – Electric Picnic
09-13 Boston, MA – Blue Hills Pavilion $
09-14 Port Chester, NY – Capitol Theatre $
09-15 Philadelphia, PA – Skyline Stage at the Mann $
09-18 Toronto, Ontario – Massey Hall ^
09-19 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre ^
09-20 Chicago, IL – Auditorium Theatre ^
09-22 St. Louis, MO – Peabody Opera House ^
09-23 Columbus, OH – Palace Theatre ^
09-25 Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium ^
09-26 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium ^
09-27 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle ^
09-29 Austin, TX – Bass Concert Hall ^
10-01 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall ^
10-02 Dallas, TX – Bomb Factory ^
10-04 Phoenix, AZ – Orpheum Theatre ^
10-05 San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park ^
10-06 San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park ^
10-07 Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre $
10-11 Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theatre ^
10-12 Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl ^
10-13 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre ^
10-14 Pomona, CA – Fox Theater Pomona ^
11-01 Edinburgh, Scotland – Usher Hall
11-02 Glasgow, Scotland – O2 Academy
11-05 Manchester, England – O2 Apollo
11-07 London, England – Hammersmith Eventim Apollo
11-11 Paris, France – Le Trianon ^
11-12 Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique ^
11-14 Berlin, Germany – Huxley’s ^
11-16 Milan, Italy – Fabrique ^
11-18 Barcelona, Spain – Razzmatazz
11-19 Madrid, Spain – La Riviera ^
11-20 Lisbon, Portugal – Coliseu dos Recreios ^
@ with Tim Heidecker
% with Dams of the West
# with Entrance
^ with Weyes Blood
! with Adam Green
!! with Hamilton Leithauser
$ with Phosphorescent
* with Tennis
** with Jenny Lewis
*** with Adanowsky
Photo Credit: Sharon Alagna
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