Cluster Plot First U.S. Tour in Ages

Cluster Plot First U.S. Tour in Ages

Legendary krautrock duo Cluster will return to the U.S. for a round of shows this month. The excursion marks the first time Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius have played most of these cities together in quite some time.

Cluster's U.S. dates find them paired with a whole bunch of different guests at various stops, including Ariel Pink, Wooden Shjips, White Rainbow, Tussle, Howlin Rain, and Arp. The band's Baltimore show goes one step further: It's a freaking festival in their honor! The previously reported Full House Fest boasts a bill that includes Cluster themselves ("at sunset"), Lungfish's Daniel Higgs, Black Dice's Eric Copeland, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Tickley Feather, among others.

Cluster also have European dates before and after their U.S. tour, while Harmonia-- aka Cluster plus Neu!'s Michael Rother-- play a couple of their own shows, including the imminent ATP vs. Pitchfork event. And hey, Roedelius has a few solo gigs too. Find all that below.

Cluster:

05-10 Rome, Italy - Palazzo dei Congressi
05-16 Detroit, MI - Detroit Institute of Arts
05-17 New York, NY - Knitting Factory
05-18 Baltimore, MD - Floristree (Full House Fest)
05-20 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle ^
05-22 Los Angeles, CA - Farmlab
05-23 Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library *
05-24 Santa Cruz, CA - Brookdale Lodge #
05-25 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall $
06-19 Munich, Germany - Rote Sonne
07-02 Tirana, Albania - Sheraton
07-07 Copenhagen, Denmark - Jazz Festival
07-30 Lunz am See, Austria - Seebuhne

^ with Chandeliers, Disappears
* with Wooden Shjips, Arp, Jonas Reinhart
# with Howlin Rain, Ariel Pink, Bronze, Ascended Master
$ with White Rainbow, Tussle


Harmonia:

05-11 Rye, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (ATP vs. Pitchfork) $
07-11 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
07-13 Birmingham, England - Town Hall (Supersonic Festival)
09-19 Monticello, NY - Kutshers Country Club (My Bloody Valentine ATP)

$ with the Hold Steady, Les Savy Fav, Bon Iver, Jens Lekman, Black Lips, Hot Chip, Caribou, No Age, Of Montreal, Man Man, Los Campesinos!, Vampire Weekend, Glass Candy, Dirty Projectors, Meat Puppets, the Black Angels, Fuck Buttons, Times New Viking, Marissa Nadler, Wooden Shjips, Deerhunter, Jay Reatard, Shit and Shine, Sebadoh, Ween, Redd Kross, Pissed Jeans, Yeasayer, Apse, A Place to Bury Strangers, the Clientele, Black Mountain, Born Ruffians, Howlin' Rain, Car Sick Cars, Even, Girls Against Boys, Various Production (DJ set)

Hans-Joachim Roedelius:

05-08 Bologna, Italy - Angelica Festival
05-31 Vienna, Austria - Kosmos Theater
06-04 Vienna, Austria - Rhiz
06-13 Vienna, Austria - Gugging Museum
06-14 Mödling, Austria - Open Air
06-30 Vienna, Austria - Porgy & Bess
09-04 Oslo, Norway - Betong
09-06 Stavanger, Norway - Nu Music Festival
10-03 Madrid, Spain - Experimentaclub
10-11 Krems, Austria - Minoritenkirche
11-15 Philadelphia, PA - St. Mary's Church"

Posted by Dave Maher on Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:40pm