Pitchfork: Spoon Head Down Under

Spoon Head Down Under
Join Big Day Out bill, celebrate Spunk! Records' 10th anniversary

Spoon didn't exactly shy away from the road in 2007, and the sharp sonic space-savers have already begun spooning out the dates in 2008. They've joined the bill of the previously reported Big Day Out Festival, which will find them rubbing elbows with the likes of Björk, Battles, and something called an Arcade Fire. Your guess is as good as mine.

Not only that, but Spoon and the Arcade Fire have scheduled a duo of joint dates free from the rest of their traveling companions, which, of course, gives us hope for plenty of headline fodder to come in this new year. Or, if they so please, they could pick up Jens Lekman and Andrew Bird, who will both join them in fêting the 10th birthday of their Australian label, Spunk! Records, at a party on January 21. Or we could just let them make up their own damn minds about whom they choose to cavort and caper with, I suppose.

After doing their Down Under duty, the lads head to Japan, Portugal, and the UK for one-off gigs.

In other positive Spoon news, that Diplo character just mixed them up for a good cause. In other negative spoon news, this.

Spoon:

01-18 Auckland, New Zealand - Big Day Out
01-20 Gold Coast, Australia - Big Day Out
01-21 Bangalow, Australia - A&I Hall (Spunk! 10th Anniversary Party) ^
01-23 Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre *
01-24 Sydney, Australia - Annandale Hotel
01-25 Sydney, Australia - Big Day Out
01-26 Hobart, Australia - Soundscape Festival
01-28 Melbourne, Australia - Big Day Out
01-30 Melbourne, Australia - The Forum *
01-31 Melbourne, Australia - Corner Hotel
02-01 Adelaide, Australia - Big Day Out
02-03 Perth, Australia - Big Day Out
02-06 Tokyo, Japan - Unit
02-23 Lisbon, Portgual - Aula Magna
02-25 London, UK - Scala

^ with Jens Lekman, Andrew Bird
* with Arcade Fire