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Scottish emo-folk band Frightened Rabbit managed to ditch the distortion and still turn in engaging versions of the songs from their great Midnight Organ Fight LP on live album Liver! Lung! FR!. But even though the record was taped in their native Scotland, Liver! Lung! FR! was only released in the U.S. late last year. But the CDs have finally arrived on the other side of the Atlantic, apparently. Frightened Rabbit's label, FatCat, will now allow the band's countrymen-- not to mention the rest of Europe-- to purchase a copy of the live document for themselves March 30. (Impatient fans can stream the whole thing here right now.) 

In honor of the home country release, the Rabbits are taking their unplugged show to England, Scotland, and Ireland-- including two shows at Liver! Lung! FR!'s birthplace, Glasgow's Captain's Rest-- starting late March. New member Andy Monaghan (keyboard, guitar, bass) will help fill out the sound on the upcoming trek:

Frightened Rabbit (acoustic):

03-26 Newcastle, England - The Castle Keep
03-27 Barrow-in-Furness, England - The Canteen
03-29 Leicester, England - The Musician
03-30 Birmingham, England - Glee Club
03-31 Glasgow, Scotland - Captain's Rest (two shows)
04-01 Dublin, Ireland - Academy 2
04-03 Edinburgh, Scotland - The Bowery
04-15 London, England - Scala (not acoustic)