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Batten the hatches, hide the kids and pets, and sound the sirens, because Sufjan Stevens is coming back to Europe tonight-- back for revenge!! Okay, not really, but we've got Halloween on the brain, and it's funny to think of sparkly-eyed Sufjan enacting revenge on anyone-- especially since he's been reviewing horror films these days. And prepping five-disc sets of Christmas songs. And making America's children smoke weed.

Sufjan's not-really-revenge tour campaign charges across the old countries, beginning in Dublin tonight and culminating with two engagements at Reykjavik's Frikirkjan Church, which we'd like to think only added the -jan suffix in tribute to the master. St. Vincent, the whimsical project of Polyphonic Spree guitarist Annie Clark, opens all dates.

He wants revenge:

11-01 Dublin, Ireland - Olympia *
11-02 Manchester, England - Academy 2 *
11-03 London, England - Barbican *
11-05 Gent, Belgium - Vooruit *
11-07 Barcelona, Spain - Casino L Allanca *
11-09 Paris, France - Le Bataclan *
11-10 Cologne, Germany - Gloria *
11-11 Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Paradiso *
11-12 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega *
11-14 Oslo, Norway - Sentrum Scene *
11-15 Stockholm, Sweden - Berns *
11-17 Reykjavik, Iceland - Frikirkjan Church *
11-18 Reykjavik, Iceland - Frikirkjan Church *

* with St. Vincent