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Photos by Eirik Lande

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more disparate pairing among indie hit-makers, but soft-spoken existential folkie Phil Elverum (as Mount Eerie) and hyperactive, interactive Portland party-starters YACHT nonetheless shared a stage at Bergen, Norway's Hulen Wednesday night.

Phil, fresh off the superdeluxe reissue of the Microphones' seminal The Glow, Pt. 2 LP and all set to share Mount Eerie's Black Wooden Ceiling Opening this month and D+'s On Purpose collection the next, continues touring Europe with some slightly more like-minded acts through early June.

YACHT's Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans, meanwhile, spend another week docked in Europe before sailing home for a few shows. Then it's back across the Atlantic for a whole bunch of recently-minted UK gigs and festival spots.

YACHT






Mount Eerie


YACHT






Mount Eerie


YACHT:

05-09 Rome, Italy - Dissonanze Festival
05-11 Milan, Italy - Atomic Cafe
05-12 Faenza, Italy - Clandestino
05-14 Cosenza, Italy - Partyzan Vivo Festival
05-15 Pescara, Italy - Mono
05-16 Brussels, Belgium - Les Nuits de Botanique *
05-17 Stockholm, Sweden - Svenska Musikklubben
05-30 Portland, OR - Lincoln High School
06-14 Seattle, WA - Neumos #
06-26 Costa Mesa, CA - Orange County Performing Arts Center ^
07-05 London, England - Proud Galleries
07-16 London, England - Old Blue Last
07-17 London, England - Proud Galleries
07-18 London, England - Amersham Arms
07-26 Hyères, France - MIDI Festival
08-23 Leeds, England - The Faversham
08-24 Daresbury, England - Creamfields Festival
08-26 Sheffield, England - Bungalows & Bears
08-27 Brighton, England - Barfly
08-28 London, England - ICA
08-29 Manchester, England - Ruby Lounge
08-31 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic Festival
09-02 Cardiff, Wales - Clwb Ifor Bach
09-04 Bristol, England - Start the Bus
09-05 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
09-06 Southend-on-Sea, England - Chinnery's

* with Peaches
# with Matt & Kim
^ with Mika Miko

Mount Eerie:

05-09 Gothenburg, Sweden - Koloni at Kulturhuset Underjorden $
05-10 Copenhagen, Denmark - Blagarden Bibliotek $
05-11 Berlin, Germany - Volksbürne $
05-12 Leipzig, Germany - UT Connewitz $
05-13 Leipzig, Germany - The Needle and the Damage (acoustic in-store)
05-14 Nuremberg, Germany - Hafenklang/K4 $
05-15 Dresden, Germany - Scheune $
05-16 Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang $
05-17 Brussels, Belgium - Recyclart $
05-18 Utrecht, Netherlands - Theater Kikker $
05-19 Paris, France - La Fleche d'Or $
05-20 Tourcoing, France - Le Grand Mix $
05-21 Manchester, Englnd - Kro Bar $
05-22 Bristol, England - Start the Bus $
05-23 London, England - Cafe Oto $
05-24 Dublin, Ireland - Whelan's $
05-25 Nottingham, England - Dot to Dot Festival $
05-29 Barcelona, Spain - Parc del Fòrum (Primavera Sound)
05-31 Gdansk, Poland - Cafe Delfin *
06-01 Poznan, Poland - Kisielice *
06-02 Sanok, Poland - TBA
06-03 Katowice, Poland - TBA
06-04 Krakow, Poland - TBA
06-05 Warsaw, Poland - Saturator *
06-07 Lille, France - La Malterie *
06-08 Rouen, France - Emporium Galorium *
06-09 Paris, France - Mains d'Oeuvres *
06-12 Montreal, Quebec - Casa del Popolo
06-22 Anacortes, WA - Dept. of Safety ^
07-18-20 Anacortes, WA - What the Heck? Festival

$ with No Kids
* with Ô Paon/Geneviève Castrée/Woelv
^ with Typhoon, Kickball