Pile announce EU/UK tour dates for September 2019
Today, in support of their highly acclaimed 7th album, ‘Green and Gray’, Pile have announced new run EU/UK headline tour dates to take place in September 2019. The tour kicks off Hasselt, Belgium and sees the band perform in Leeds, Glasgow, Bristol and London with a headline show at the Moth Club. The full list of dates so far is as follows:
11/09 : Hasselt BE – MOD
12/09 : Rotterdam NL – V11
15/09 : London UK – Moth Club
16/09 : Leeds UK – The Lending Room
17/09 : Glasgow UK – Nice N Sleazy
18/09 : Bristol UK – Crofters Rights
19/09 : Amsterdam NL – Indiestad @ Paradiso
22/09 : Copenhagen DK – Loppen
23/09 : Berlin DE – Urban Spree
24/09 : Dresden DE – Scheune
25/09 : Prague CZ – CafeVlese
+ more TBC
The follow up to their 2017 critical breakthrough, ‘A Hairshirt of Purpose’, the band’s new record (released via Exploding In Sound Records last week) has been shaping up to become one of the most exciting rock records this year, earning plaudits from the likes of Pitchfork (7.9), Kerrang!, The 405, Sterogum, The FADER, Noisey, Consequence of Sound, NPR, London in Stereo, The Line Of Best Fit, Louder, Brooklyn Vegan and many more.
Speaking about the new record, frontman Rick Maguire says, “I’m just trying to figure out where I’m at with the whole thing. Living like this never ceases to be strange. I’m doing exactly what I want to do and I love it very much, that’s stayed there for me, but I’m just watching things change around me as I go.
I’m a mid 30s guy on that line, and these are my own emotional observations on those feelings. I put a lot of energy into making these things that are about, on some level, how I feel, but the feelings themselves are like riddles, so the songs are the best answers I can come up with. I put a lot of myself into it. I think it’s a good honest piece of work.”
The band will also head out on an extensive North American tour, starting today in Nashville, playing with the likes of C.H.E.W., Halfsour and State Champion.
