Pitchfork: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Announces Summer Tour

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Announces Summer Tour

A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of Will "Bonnie 'Prince' Billy" Oldham. Like a disquieting backwoods Gumball Rally, Bonnie, his beard, and an eccentric ensemble of hats will blitz the unsuspecting continent beginning in just over a week; the early July lark will be interrupted solely by a DJ stint at our own Intonation Music Festival in Chicago. The long march revs up again for most of August with a healthy mixture of gigs, festival and otherwise, as you can see from the following list:

06-30 Paris, France - Cite de la Musique
07-01 Paris, France - Mo'Fo Festival at Mains D'oeuvres
07-02 Belfort, France - Eurockennes Festival
07-03 Toulouse, France - Puerto Habana
07-05 Mallorca, Spain - Claustre de St. Francesc
07-06 Barcelona, Spain - Apolo
07-07 Bordeaux, France - Le 4 Sans
07-08 Nijmegen, Netherlands - Doomroosje
07-09 Brugges, Belgium - Cactus Festival
07-10 Frankfurt, Germany - Festsaal Universitat
07-11 Montreux, Switzerland - Montreux Jazz Festival
07-16 Chicago, IL - Intonation Festival (Will Oldham DJ set)
08-06 Faenza, Italy - Rocca Di Modiglianan Festival
08-07 Castelbueno, Italy - Ypsyrock Festival
08-11 Vienna, Austria - WUK
08-12 Warsaw, Poland - Fabryka Trzciny
08-13 Berlin, Germany - Passionkirche
08-14 Hamburg, Germany - Fabrik
08-15 Mannheim, Germany - Alte Feuerwache
08-16 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
08-18 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
08-19 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
08-20 Hay-on-Wye, Wales - Green Man Festival
08-21 Edinburgh, Scotland - Queens Hall
08-22 London, England - The Forum

According to their website, Oldham's label Drag City will mark the occasion with a new single from Superwolf, Oldham's recent album with Matt Sweeney. They will back "I Gave You" with three non-album cuts and a video for the title tune, all arriving July 27. Drag City also hints cryptically about a live Bonnie record coming this autumn. Finally, the label takes pains to remind the mainstream media that Audioslave was not the first U.S. band to kick it in Cuba, as so many reports asserted-- Bonnie took his act there way back in 2000. Charitably, we'll assume that the wire-service scribes just dropped a word: They probably meant that Audioslave was the first shitty American band to play Cuba.