Fleet Foxes Announce Massive Tour

BY Brock ThiessenPublished Aug 14, 2008

Following the success of Fleet Foxes’ self-titled debut full-length, the harmony-loving quintet are gearing up to hit the road once again. Starting with a string of dates opening for Wilco, the heavily bearded Seattle band will bring their back-to-nature folk revival to a massive number of North American cities, as well as several European ones. However, only a pair of dates find them playing to Canadian audiences: September 16 in Vancouver and September 17 in Victoria.

On the European leg of the tour, the band’s stickman J. Tillman is booked to open. Recently, Tillman released all four of his solo records digitally. I Will Return and Long May You Run, J. Tillman and his most recent Cancer and Delirium are now available through Aquarium Drunkard's Autumn Tone Records, while Tillman’s third album Minor Works comes courtesy of Undertow. The word is Tillman also has a fifth album in the pipeline, entitled Vacilando Territory Blues, but there is no word on a release date just yet.

Here is Fleet Floxes’ huge run of remaining summer and fall tour dates:

8/18 Salt Lake City, Utah - Red Butte Garden *
8/20 Eagle, ID - Eagle Knoll Winery *
8/21 Spokane, WA - INB Arts Center *
8/23 Bend, OR - Les Schwab Ampitheater *
9/06 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom - Musicfest NW
9/16 Vancouver, BC - Richard’s on Richards
9/17 Victoria, BC - Element
9/19 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
9/21 San Francisco, CA - Treasure Island Festival
9/22 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
9/23 Los Angeles, CA - Redux
9/27 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits at Zilker Park
9/28 New Orleans, LA - Howlin Wolf
9/29 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
9/30 Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre
10/02 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom
10/03 Washington, DC - Black Cat
10/05 New York, NY - Webster Hall
10/06 Somerville, MA - Somerville Theatre
10/07 Grand Rapids, MI - Calvin College
10/08 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
10/10 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
10/11 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Centre
10/12 Chicago, IL - The Metro
10/15 Denver, CO - Oriental Theater
10/18 Bellingham, WA - TBA
10/19 Seattle, WA - Moore Theater
10/20 Seattle, WA - TBA
10/28 Norwich, UK - The Waterfront ^
10/29 Sheffield, UK - Union ^
10/30 Bristol, UK - University Anson Rooms ^
10/31 Birmingham, UK - Space Two ^
11/2 Nottingham, UK - Trent Uni ^
11/05 London, UK - Shepherd’s Bush Empire ^
11/07 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street ^
11/08 Glasgow, UK - ABC ^
11/09 Manchester, UK - Thee Academy ^
11/10 London, UK - Shepherd’s Bush Empire ^
11/11 Cambridge, UK - Junction ^
11/12 Paris, France - Festival Les Inrocks ^
11/15 Milan, Italy - TBA
11/16 Vienna, Austria - Arena ^
11/17 Zurich, Switzerland - Abart ^
11/18 Munich, Germany - Ampere ^
11/20 Brussels, Belgium - AB Box ^
11/21 Hague, Holland - TBA
11/22 Essen, Germany - TBA
11/24 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Club ^

* with Wilco
^ with J. Tillman

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