EELS announce March UK tour dates

Following the announcement of their highly anticipated new album ‘Wonderful, Glorious’ - out on 4th February through E Works/Vagrant Records - EELS today release details of an extensive March UK tour. See full tour dates below.

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Fri 30th Nov from http://eelstheband.com/tourdates.

Mark Oliver Everett and his band, guitarists The Chet and P-Boo, bass player Honest Al and drummer Knuckles, will kick off proceedings at The Limelight in Belfast on 14th March before taking in Dublin, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Bournemouth, Brighton, Norwich, Nottingham and Bristol, finishing up at O2 Academy Birmingham on 30th March.

It will be the band’s first UK tour since their critically acclaimed 2011 shows which included a Glastonbury set heralded by many as one of the performances of the festival. The Telegraph called the appearance "a witty, energetic and musically stunning set" in their list of top 10 highlights, while The Independent says it was "a soulful, funny, crowd-winning show" in their list of top 5 highlights.

New album ‘Wonderful, Glorious’, recorded in Everett’s new Los Feliz, CA studio dubbed “The Compound”, is his first album since 2010’s ‘Tomorrow Morning’ - the final part of a trilogy of albums including ‘End Times’ and ‘Hombre Lobo’.

Listen to ‘Peach Blossom’, the first track revealed from Wonderful,Glorious’ on SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/vagrantrecords/eels-peach-blossom or see below.

Tour Dates:

FEBRUARY 2013 - US/Canada
14 - The Observatory - Santa Ana, CA
15 - Henry Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
16 - The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
18 - Aladdin Theater - Portland, OR
19 - Showbox Theatre - Seattle, WA
22 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
23 - Vic Theatre - Chicago, IL
24 - Newport Music Hall - Columbus, OH
25 - Phoenix Concert Theatre - Toronto, ONT
26 - Theatre Cornona - Montreal, QUE
27 - Paradise, Boston, MA

MARCH 2013 - US/UK
01 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
02 - World Cafe Live - Philadephia, PA
03 - 9:30 Club - Washington DC
04 - Cat's Cradle - Carrabo, NC
05 - Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, GA
07 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX
08 - Warehouse Live Ballroom - Houston, TX

UK dates MARCH 2013
15 - Olympia - Dublin
17 - Academy - Manchester
18 - 02 Academy - Glasgow
19 - O2 Academy - Leeds
21 - O2 Academy Brixton - London
23 - 02 Academy - Bournemouth
25 - Dome - Brighton
26 - UEA - Norwich
27 - Rock City - Nottingham
29 - O2 Academy - Bristol
30 - O2 Academy - Birmingham

APRIL 2013 - Europe
01 - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Holland
06 - Grey Hall - Copenhagen, Denmark
07 - Grosse Freiheit - Hamburg, Germany
08 - Astra - Berlin, Germany
10 - Cirque Royal - Brussels, Belgium
12 - Le Cargo - Caen, France
14 - Republic - Salzburg, Austria
15 - Frizon - Fribourg, Switzerland
16 - Volkshaus - Zurich, Switzerland
18 - Alcatraz - Milan, Italy
19 - Orpheum - Graz, Austria
20 - Posthof - Linz, Austria
21 - Gosometer - Vienna, Austria
22 - Muffathalle - Munich, germany
24 - Trianon - Paris, France