The Mae Shi Act Out "The Wire" on Tour-Only DVD

And where there's a tour-only DVD, there is, of course, a tour
The Mae Shi Act Out "The Wire" on Tour-Only DVD Oh gosh. Like you needed another excuse to catch Los Angeles' increasingly-awesome spazz-poppers the Mae Shi when they head your way, well, now there's this: on their forthcoming U.S. and European tours, they'll be carting around copies of a "super limited DVD" chock full of "lots of weird videos and fun stuff for nerds who like" the band. Cool enough, but look: "one highlight from the DVD will be the Mae Shi acting out selected scenes from 'The Wire'." Somewhere, a Technorati server has begun emitting sparks on the strength of that sentence alone.

As for the tour, well, it will see the Mae Shi sticking to the West Coast through the end of the month, with gigs across the pond to busy up their Junes. They're also hard at work on a video for "Party Politics" from the excellent HLLLYH LP that reportedly involves "lots of animated puking." You guys are something else.

The Mae Shi:

04-18 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland *#%
04-22 Oakland, CA - 21 Grand *
04-23 Chico, CA - Crux Arts *
04-24 Olympia, WA - Voyeur *
04-25 Seattle, WA - Vera Project *#
04-26 Portland, OR - East End *#
04-27 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *^
04-28 Sacramento, CA - Witchdome *
05-06 Cambridge, England - Graduate $
05-07 York, England - Fibbers $
05-08 Aberdeen, Scotland - Snafu $
05-09 Glasgow, Scotland - Barfly $
05-10 Liverpool, England - Barfly Loft $
05-12 Birmingham, England - The Place I Love $
05-13 London, England - King's College $
05-16 Brighton, England - The Great Escape
05-17 Leeds, England - Faversham (Nasty Fest)
05-18 Edinburgh, Scotland - Cabaret Voltaire
05-20 Sheffield, England - DQ $
05-21 Manchester, England - Moho Live $
05-22 Kingston, England - New Slang
05-23 Vienna, Austria - Flex
05-24 Nottingham, England - Dot to Dot Festival
05-25 Bristol, England - Dot to Dot Festival
05-26 Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy (Soundtrack Festival)
05-28 Hamburg, Germany - Molotov
05-29 Berlin, Germany - West Germany

* with Pre
# with Panther
% with Michael Vidal of Abe Vigoda
^ with XBXRX, Tempo No Tempo
$ with Johnny Foreigner
Posted by Paul Thompson on Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:00pm