Pitchfork: Lightning Bolt Tour Europe, Work on New Album

Lightning Bolt Tour Europe, Work on New Album
TBAfest may cause problems upon arrival at venue

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to announce that now you, too, can be struck by Lightning! Yes, Lightning Bolt, creators of last year's brutally beautiful Wonderful Rainbow, are coming to a town near you (if you live in Europe), allowing you the opportunity to experience a shocker of a show that could prove to be even more maddeningly awesome than the real thing. The tour will be occurring in late September and all of October this year and looks to be forging through that most famous of continents at a truly grueling pace. What else would you expect of a group with a "singer" who barks through a contact mike taped inside a gimp mask?

Although the tour is still in the process of being booked, the band's fine bookers at Conspiracy were nice enough to offer us the schedule as it currently stands. Go go gadget dates:

09-27 Brussels, Belgium - AB-Club
09-28 Utrecht, Netherlands - Ekko
09-29 Groningen, Netherlands - Vera
09-30 Goteborg, Sweden - Nefertiti
10-01 Oslo, Norway - Cafe Mono
10-02 Stavanger, Norway - Cementen
10-03 Arhus, Denmark - TBA
10-04 Hamburg, German - Hafenlang
10-05 Berlin, Germany - Zentral
10-06 Munich, German - Kafe Kult
10-07 Vienna, Austria - B72
10-08 Milan, Italy - Leoncavallo
10-09 Rome, Italy - TBA
10-10 Bologna, Italy - TBA
10-11 Geneva, Switzerland - Usine
10-12 Bordeaux, France - Zoobizarre
10-13 Barcelona, Spain - Magic
10-14 Lyon, France - TBA
10-15 Paris, France - TBA
10-16 Netherlands, Amsterdam - Occii
10-17 Kontich, Belgium - Lintfabriek

In completely and totally unconfirmed news, rumors have been flying that Lightning Bolt's next album, titled Frenzy, is being pushed back from its originally scheduled release this summer to a 2005 date. The record was said to be constituted entirely of improvised material, but the word on the streets is that the band have discovered a newfound artistic devotion for pre-written material. If this info is accurate (and, folks, that's a big "if"), it could point to two releases from the band within the next 12 months. And they say lightning never strikes twice!

Besides writing and recording new material, the band has been keeping busy contributing songs to compilations such as New York based free-form radio station WFMU's Don't Shoot the Toy Piano Player and 5 Rue Christine's If the Twenty-First Century Didn't Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent It. They also recorded a coveted Peel Session with BBC radio personality John Peel at the historic Maida Vale studios in London along with Erase Errata on March 31st. Now if they'd just come do a Barger Session at chez moi.