Baroness Add More Tour Dates and Share Candid Behind-the-Scenes Video
Photo by Doug Seymour
Baroness have added an additional leg to their previously announced Yellow & Green North American tour, with a number of Midwest and West Coast dates including a stop at Bumbershoot on the itinerary.
The band has also released a candid interview clip in which they share their thoughts on the Summer 2012 tour bus accident and reveal the first rehearsal footage with Nick Jost (bass) and Sebastian Thomson (drums). Baroness has a full summer ahead of them with their headlining dates kicking off on May 24 at Union Transfer in Philadelphia and upcoming stops at Chaos in Tejas, The Orion Festival, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Heavy MTL in Montreal.
Baroness announced their eagerly awaited return to the road in early April with guitar player Pete Adams saying, “It’s hard to find the words to express how excited we are to announce this tour. Seven months ago, who knew when it would be or even if we could get back on the road. But here we are, picking right back up where we left off. A heartfelt thanks to everyone’s unconditional love and support for us through, let’s hope, the hardest time this band will ever see. We told you we’d be back so let’s do this thing!”
New Yellow & Green tour dates:
August 5 Columbus, OH A&R Music Bar
August 7 Rochester, NY Club @ Walter Street
August 9 Toronto, ON Mod Club
August 11 Boston, MA Royale
August 13 Providence, RI Met Café
August 14 New York, NY Irving Plaza
August 17 Champaign, IL The Highdive
August 18 Columbia, MO Mojo’s
August 20 Colorado Springs, CO Black Sheep
August 21 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
August 23 Phoenix, AZ Club Red
August 25 San Diego, CA The Casbah
August 27 Tucson, AZ The Rock
August 28 Las Vegas NV Backstage Bar
August 30 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
September 2 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot
September 4 Vancouver, BC Venue
Previously announced dates:
May 24 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
May 25 Baltimore, MD Ram’s Head Live
May 26 Norfolk, VA Jewish Mother
May 28 Charleston, SC The Music Farm
May 29 Atlanta, GA Center Stage
May 31 Dallas, TX Trees
June 1 Austin, TX Chaos in Tejas (Mohawk)
June 2 Houston, TX Free Press Summer Festival
June 4 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre
June 5 St. Louis, MO The Firebird
June 7 Detroit, MI St. Andrew’s Hall (Official Orion After Party)
June 8 Grand Rapids, MI The Pyramid Scheme
June 9 Madison, WI The Majestic Theatre
June 11 Indianapolis, IN Deluxe @ Old National Centre
June 12 Cincinnati, OH Taft Ballroom
June 14 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small’s
June 15 Huntington, WV V Club
June 16 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo
August 4 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
August 10 Montreal, QC Heavy MTL
NOTE: Inter Arma opens May 25 & 26, True Widow opens May 28 – 31, Coliseum opens June 4 to 15, Royal Thunder opens on headlining dates from Aug. 1 to Sept. 4
Tickets for the additional dates are on-sale this Friday, May 17 at 10 am local time except in Denver, where tickets goes on-sale Saturday at 10 am.
Baroness was sidelined when their tour bus plunged off a viaduct in the Bath area of England on Aug. 15, leaving the band and crew members with a variety of serious injuries. Yellow & Green had been released less than a month when the accident happened and with just four shows remaining in the six-week trek before the band could return home to enjoy the praise that was being heaped upon the double-album. Singer/guitar player Baizley suffered extensive injuries, which, at one point, clouded the future of both the band and his return to music.
In October, after an unprecedented outpouring from fans, peers and friends, Baizley posted an open letter in which he painfully recounted the horrific crash, ending the ten-paragraph note with a fierce determination to return to music and touring. By December, a clip of Baizley and Adams performing an acoustic rendition of “Stretchmarker” was posted on the Baroness website with a brief note that started with, “Simply put: it’s time to get back to it.” With that, Baroness’s return to touring was not a matter of if but of when. Adams and Baizley made their first public appearance with a performance in late January at Decibel Magazine‘s 100th issue celebration in Philadelphia. Earlier this month, Baizley ventured to SXSW for a solo performance at Invisible Oranges/Brooklyn Vegan’s showcase as well as pair of art exhibits (Baizley’s art can be viewed here.
Yellow & Green has garnered enormous praise and landed on various best of and year-end lists worldwide: it reigned over Spin‘s “20 Best Metal Albums of 2012,” iTunes awarded “Take My Bones Away” the distinction of the best metal song of the year, Metal Hammer Germany placed the release at #2 on their year-end list and BBC Music described the album as a “nearly flawless collection” while giving Yellow & Green the #13 spot in their Top 25 albums of 2012. The 18-track record also landed on year-end lists from Amazon (#46), Close Up Sweden (#4), Decibel (#2), Guitar World (#15), Loudwire (#4), Magnet (#12), Metal Hammer Norway (#4), Metal Hammer UK (#14), Paste (#47), Pitchfork (#27), PopMatters (#4), Revolver (#4), Stereogum (#18), Terrorizer (#2), Treble (#2), Village Voice (#6) and Visions Germany (#4).