Machine Head Announce Intimate Five Date UK Tour
They're touring places they rarely play
Machine Head have announced details of a very special, intimate tour for this summer.
The metal icons will play five shows at intimate venues in cities they rarely play in late July and early August.
Explaining the idea behind the tour, frontman Robb Flynn said:
"In keeping with the intimate club tour-vibe we are doing in the USA this summer, for our first time ever, we decided to blow off 90% of all Euro summer festivals, and hit the nooks and crannies of the UK and Europe as well. We will be doing no major cities in any territories throughout Europe and the UK for this first leg of 2014. No London, no Berlin, etc, and instead focusing on the die-hard Machine Head fans that who don't often get the chance to see us because the travel is too far or too costly to get the big cities. I remember when we were out with Metallica doing festivals a few years ago, we played in a small out-of-the-way city in Denmark called Aarhus. We'd never played there let alone, ever even heard of the fucking place. We were all a bit grumbly before the show, and you know what? It ended up being one of the most fun shows we've ever done. Doing shows like this, it creates an energy, it creates a bond, something unbreakable, and it is really fucking fun. It's Machine Head without all the big production, the bells and whistles, stripped down and raw. What will be really cool is that in the UK, we've never done a club tour, it happened so fast for us there that other than a handful of epically insane, wildly drunken Ten Ton Hammer club shows, we've only played bigger halls, so we are really looking forward to giving our fans something special there. Plus, we've been hearing from our Scottish fans for decades that we need to get to Edinburgh!!! So finally, 21 years into our existence, we're coming and we're ready to fucking plunder Scotland!!!!"
Tickets to the tour go on sale from 9am this coming Friday (11th April).
Machine Head are currently putting the finishing touches to the follow-up to 2011’s ‘Unto The Locust’.
As a tantaslising taster, on Record Store Day next week, Machine Head will release a ‘demo version’ of the brand new song ‘Killers & Kings’ on strictly limited edition gatefold 10” vinyl.
It will come backed with covers of ‘Our Darkest Days’ and ‘Bleeding’ by Ignite and is available in two different colours of vinyl; red or blue, and four different sleeves featuring tarot card designs; Death, The High Priestess, The Devil, and Strength.
See Machine Head at the following shows:
JULY 2014 Nottingham Rescue Rooms – Tue 29th Edinburgh Liquid Rooms – Thu 31st
AUGUST 2014 Newcastle University – Sat 2nd Norwich Waterfront – Sun 3rd Brighton Concorde – Mon 4th