New Tour Thread

First USA dates announced! Who's going?

8.20 - St. Vitus, Brooklyn, NY - http://ticketf.ly/1c6byfi on sale 5.8
8.22 - Musicfest NW, Portland, OR - http://bit.ly/1KMeERu
8.23 - FYF Fest, Los Angeles, CA - http://bit.ly/1dNA7ie

Just got back from their London gig, it was incredible, first time I've seen them live. I have some pictures, no recordings though. I kinda hoped they'd do more new stuff, but it was still a fantastic experience. They did ice cream, africastle, atlas, wall street, and futura (amongst new material). Interestingly the structure of some of the new ones differed from the videos we got from warp 25, I guess they've been developed since then. Really looking forward to the new album. I'll post pictures later when I get the chance.

Videos from new shows:

Barcelona, new song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLBeQSItpc8

Barcelona, Futura: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndRsOqaSX2w

London, new song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpU-uDReeLQ

Haha set list from London show! https://twitter.com/JoshBackho...724434669568/photo/1

Battles announces World Tour! Album must be coming soon....

http://bttls.com/live

It says more dates are to be announced, on twitter.

AUG20
Saint Vitus
Brooklyn, NY

AUG22
MusicFest NW
Portland, OR

AUG23
FYF Fest - LA State Historic Park
Los Angeles, CA

SEP4
Electric Picnic
Stradbally

SEP12
Hopscotch Music Festival
Raleigh, NC

SEP30
Paradise Rock Club
Boston, MA

OCT1
Lee's Palace
Toronto, ON

OCT2
Metro
Chicago, IL

OCT3
First Avenue
Minneapolis, MN

OCT6
The Imperial
Vancouver, BC

OCT7
Neptune Theatre
Seattle, WA

OCT9
The Fillmore
San Francisco, CA

OCT11
Crescent Ballroom
Phoenix, AZ

OCT13
Trees
Dallas, TX

OCT14
Mohawk
Austin, TX

OCT15
Republic
New Orleans, LA

OCT16
Masquerade
Atlanta, GA

OCT17
Exit/In
Nashville, TN

OCT18
Union Transfer
Philadelphia, PA

OCT19
9:30 Club
Washington, DC

OCT20
Webster Hall
New York, NY

OCT23
Manchester Academy 2
Manchester

OCT24
Colston Hall
Bristol

OCT25
O2 ABC
Glasgow

OCT28
Electric Ballroom
London, Camden Town

OCT29
Le Grand Mix
Tourcoing

OCT30
Grande Halle De La Villette
Paris

OCT31
Zoom
Frankfurt

NOV2
Melkweg
Amsterdam

NOV3
Botanique Rotonde
Brussels

NOV4
Berghain
Berlin

NOV4-8
C2C Festival
Turin

NOV4-8
Iceland Airwaves
Reykjavik

It may be early to ask, but who's going to which shows? Ironically yesterday I bought plane tickets to NYC because they hadn't announced a tour yet. The St. Vitus show is sold out but Ian said he'd put me on his guest list. I live in Texas now, but may be moving to the East Coast this fall. So depending on whether I move or not, I'll be doing Brooklyn in August and either:

Dallas/Austin/New Orleans

or 

Philadelphia/Washington/New York

I really hope they announce another Irish date that isn't Electric Picnic, I always rather see bands at their own gigs rather than a festival.

Battles were the first concert I ever went to! Back in 2011 in The Button Factory in Dublin, what a night! AMAZING GIG!

Tickets for the upcoming @BATTLES​ tour go on pre-sale from 10AM EST // 3PM BST tomorrow exclusively at http://bttls.com/ 

Neptune Theater for me!

Asian dates added to tour.

Anybody going to be at Brooklyn show next week? I will be there!

Anyone going to the Lee's Palace show in Toronto tonight? Getting psyched!

Have fun and take pics/vids if you can! 

Saw Battles in Boston last night. 

They were fantastic.  I fought my way up to the front and was able to stand right in front of Dave. It was great. They opened with Dot Com, Dave was building the opening loop for like 10 minutes. To be able to see it done up close was very special to me.

I brought my LaDiDaDi poster with me in the hopes I could get it signed but they didn't hang out before or after the show. Dave is from Mass. and I know he had family and close friends in attendance, so I guess they were very busy entertaining guests after the show. (But Dave did shake my hand before he left the stage)

The set list they played was the same as the past few recent shows. 

John was a monster. He rocked out so hard he split his pants! True story.

He had to duct tape the crotch of his black skinny jeans. Ha!

Ian was super cool as always. (I wore my red suede Pumas in his honor)

It was a great show!

I advise anyone going to get as close as you can to the stage to see Dave and Ian making all the loops.
Also buy your tshirts early! At the end of the night they were sold out of my size. I should have got mine before but I didn't feel like holding it. Big mistake.

Frustrating because I'm sure they weren't really sold out, but they have to save enough sizes for each show. I did get a nice Battles reusable bag, and I ripped a poster off the club wall. 

I didn't take any video, I wanted to but I felt people around me wouldn't appreciate it. I took a few pics but most came out blurry. It's ok my brain won't forget this show!

Now the waiting begins for the next tour to start up. 

Do they not sell the tshirts online? Maybe they will after the tour is over. Glad you had a good time though! So glad I am going to more than one show too! Gives more of a chance to hang out with them.

So they added White Electric (remix) to their live set last night in Seattle! Because Shabazz Palaces joined them onstage for the encore. That's a first.... Here's the only video I could find so far, just a clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8hlbiEQ-TI

Dallas tonight was great! I got my interview, almost a half hour long, and spent some time with the band again. They are so awesome! The show was amazing of course. Here are some photos of the merchandise. I teased Dave that if he made a vegan version of the artwork I would buy a shirt. He told me he has made a vegetarian version, it hasn't been released yet. 

Here are some videos I took on the tour:

SOUNDCHECK in Brooklyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNbG7qRatX4

DOT COM in Brooklyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7tXt9C7xo

TRICENTENNIAL in Brooklyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcehKgv8grM

FF BADA in Dallas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfFW-zJgm4

TYNE WEAR & SUMMER SIMMER in Austin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_63XD3ZehA

Also, Ian and Dave confirmed to me and Bozojazz (nice to meet you!) last night that they are playing a festival in Houston in December. It will be their last date of 2015. Dave's wife's friend convinced them to do it. She is somehow involved with the festival.  http://www.dayfornight.io/