EXISTENTIAL INDUSTRIAL GLAM MAVERICK PIG ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN HURT PEOPLE TOUR
NEW ALBUM HURT PEOPLE HURT OUT NOW ON METROPOLIS RECORDS
Having recently announced that PIG will be performing in Chicago, Los Angeles and Austin in mid-September as part of the Cold Waves XIV festival, existential industrial glam maverick Raymond Watts and his band have now revealed a fall tour of North American tour to promote Hurt People Hurt, their just released new album on Metropolis Records.
The Hurt People Tour will commence in Lawrence, Kansas on 27th August and conclude in Detroit, Michigan on 18th October, comprising of 44 shows in all that include the Cold Waves dates. An initial 40 date itinerary is listed HERE, with further shows to be added.
Hurt People Hurt has been receiving some of the best reviews of Watts’ career globally, while in the US he was recently described as “the missing link between David Bowie, Gary Numan and Trent Reznor” by Bearded Gentlemen Music.
Much of the album is co-written by Watts with his chief songwriting partner in swine Jim Davies (ex-Prodigy and Pitchshifter), with Tinnitist stating that their work is “danceable and deadly serious in turn. PIG climbs peaks and mines troughs, while musical genres slide and collide like tectonic plates.”
Two singles were issued ahead of the album. The first, “Tosca’s Kiss’” VIDEO, was inspired by Watts’ well-known love of opera, while Watts has previously stated that “Sex & Suicide” LYRIC VIDEO is a song of pain, pleasure, obsession and possession for the departed, the broken-hearted and the newly started.
Ahead of the North American tour, PIG will play two previously announced sold out shows in Tokyo on 25th and 26th June, with UK dates to follow in December.
SPILL VIDEO PREMIERE: PIG – “TOSCA’S KISS”
Tour Dates
Thu, Aug 27 – Lawrence KS @ The Bottleneck
Fri, Aug 28 – Denver CO @ Summit w/ Nitzer Ebb
Sat, Aug 29 – Salt Lake City UT @ Quarters DLC
Mon, Aug 31 – Garden City ID @ Visual Arts Collective
Wed, Sept 2 – Spokane WA @ Big Dipper
Thu, Sept 3 – Bellingham WA @ The Shakedown
Fri, Sept 4 – Seattle WA @ El Corazon
Sat, Sept 5 – Portland OR @ Star Theater
Mon, Sept 7 – Eugene OR @ John Henry’s
Tue, Sept 8 – Eureka CA @ Savage Henry
Wed, Sept 9 – Sacramento CA @ Cafe Colonial
Thu, Sept 10 – San Francisco CA @ DNA Lounge
Fri, Sept 11 – Los Angeles CA @ Cold Waves – Pacific Electric
Sat, Sept 12 – Santa Ana CA @ La Santa
Sun, Sept 13 – Phoenix AZ @ Last Exit Live
Mon, Sept 14 – El Paso TX @ Bye Bye Dear
Wed, Sept 16 – Dallas TX @ AM FM
Thu, Sept 17 – San Antonio TX @ Paper Tiger
Fri, Sept 18 – Austin TX @ Cold Waves – The Mohawk
Sat, Sept 19 – Little Rock AR @ Birdie’s
Sun, Sept 20 – St Louis MO @ Red Flag
Wed, Sept 23 – Davenport IA @ Raccoon Motel
Fri, Sept 25 – Chicago IL @ Cold Waves – The Metro
Sat, Sept 26 – Cleveland OH @ Beachland Tavern
Sun, Sept 27 – Baltimore MD @ Metro Gallery
Tue, Sept 29 – Syracuse NY @ The Song and Dance
Thu, Oct 1 – Philadelphia PA @ Nikki Lopez
Fri, Oct 2 – Brooklyn NY @ Saint Vitus
Sat, Oct 3 – Millersville PA @ Phantom Power
Sun, Oct 4 – Richmond VA @ Fallout
Mon, Oct 5 – Greenville SC @ Radio Room
Wed, Oct 7 – Atlanta GA @ Drunken Unicorn
Thu, Oct 8 – Orlando FL @ Conduit
Fri, Oct 9 – Tampa FL @ Orpheum
Tue, Oct 13 – Columbus OH @ Rumba
Wed, Oct 14 – Pittsburgh PA @ Sidequest
Thu, Oct 15 – Hamilton ON @ Mill’s Hardware
Fri, Oct 16 – Montreal QC @ Toscadura
Sat, Oct 17 – Toronto ON @ Lee’s Palace
Sun, Oct 18 – Detroit MI @ Smalls
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