In the intimate confines, he'll be delivering a stripped down solo performance of his new album, Tuscon. Howe assembled a ten strong group of collaborators (or cast if you will) for the album which is due to be released on June 11th, 2012 on Fire Records.  The idea was to make a country rock opera, a vision that has followed Howe for decades. Taking place in the town of Tucson, the story revolves around a "semi grizzled man with overt boyish naïveté" who sets off to escape the trappings of hometown life and embarks on a life-changing road trip; eschewing all his worldly goods and leaving behind his girlfriend, encountering jail at the Mexican border, finding new love at a train station saloon, all while 'the end of the world' provides the landscape game changer. The album is a dusty work of art, conjuring images of the all knowing desert and a confused river inside the cacti-strewn sound scape. And Gelb is coming to London to tell his Tuscon tale man-to-man. Be one of the first to hear Tuscon before it goes Giant Giant.

Past Praise for Giant Sand and Howe Gelb

 "Suffice it to say that Blurry Blue Mountain is a lovely, oddly charming record. And in the unlikely event that it doesn't move you, there's a whole heap of past glories waiting to be discovered." Uncut ****

"These artfully slouched barroom meditations on midlife maladies glow with a wry romanticism, warming like whiskey or Tom Waits on a sentimental tip." Independent

"Blurry Blue Mountain is as idiosyncratic as ever, pregnant with moments of mercurial magic." Mojo ****

Howe Gelbe  plays Village Underground, London 3rd April.