Brooklyn boys ready for Roadburn
Roadburn announced festival set times today in which they bestowed the coveted 4:20 pm time slot to Brooklyn’s highly revered Blind Idiot God. The band has not toured in Europe since the 1980s so this is reason to rejoice for many (not just cannabis enthusiasts). Before Ever After, co-produced by Bill Laswell (Herbie Hancock’s Future Shock, Mick Jagger, PiL, Motörhead, Ramones, Iggy Pop and Miles Davis) drops worldwide on April 8th. Raise The Titanic Tour launches on April 13th with stops in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Norway.
Tim Wyskida shares exciting tour news explaining that the “Roadburn performance will include a video created by Heath Bradley. He’s taken Seldon Hunt’s Before, Ever, After album art and made sections of it move. This animation will be a delight for Dutch stoners.”
Blind Idiot God Raise The Titanic Tour 2016
Wednesday, April 13th at Vera in Groningen, The Netherlands
Thursday, April 14th at Magasin 4 in Brussels, Belgium
Saturday, April 16th at Gleiss 22 in Muenster, Germany
Sunday, April 17th Roadburn Festival at 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands
Monday, April 18th at Sonic Ballroom in Cologne, Germany
Tuesday, April 19th at Bad Bonn in Duedingen, Switzerland
Wednesday, April 20th at Serraglio in Milan, Italy
Thursday, April 21st at Freakout Club in Bologna, Italy
Saturday, April 23rd at Beatpol in Dresden, Germany
Sunday, April 24th at Cassiopeia in Berlin, Germany
Wednesday, April 27th at Blæst in Trondheim, Norway
Thursday, April 28th at Pokalen in Oslo, Norway
Friday, April 29th at Hulen in Bergen, Norway
Saturday, April 30th at Folken in Stavanger, Norway
Blind Idiot God is Andy Hawkins on guitar; Tim Wyskida on drums; Will Dahl on bass (though founding member Gabe Katz plays bass on the album). The band has shared the stage with artists like John Zorn (a collaborator who released their third album on Avant Records), Black Flag, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Die Kreuzen, Don Caballero, Jesus Lizard, Napalm Death, HR, Eekamouse among many others.
LP TRACKLIST
Side 1 — 1)Twenty Four Hour Dawn 2) Night Driver 3) Antiquity
Side 2 — 3) Earthmover 4) FUB 5) Barrage
Side 3 — 6) High and Mighty 7) Voice Of The Structure 8) Under The Weight 10) Ramshackle
Side 4 — 11) Wheels Of Progress 12) Strung 13) Shutdown
