EUROPEAN DATES MAY

[Mr Bod]

from the main site so must be real.. but be quick before we all need a visa ...


BSP ARE ALSO PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING EUROPEAN DATES
17 May 2017 - Antwerp Trix Club, Belgium Tickets
18 May 2017 - Hamburg Molotow, Germany Tickets
19 May 2017 - Berlin Privatclub Tickets
20 May 2017 - Prague Lucerna Music Bar, Czech Republic Tickets
21 May 2017 - Vienna Szene Wien, Austria Tickets
23 May 2017 Zurich Dynamo Werk21, Switzerland Tickets
24 May 2017 - Munich Strom, Germany Tickets
25 May 2017 - Cologne Gebäude 9, Germany Tickets
26 May 2017 - Amsterdam Paradiso (London Calling), Netherlands Tickets
27 May 2017 - Paris Nouveau Casino, France Tickets

[TheAlex]

It looks like I'll probably miss the April tour, just like last year. But I'm in Paris on the 9th and 10th of June to see Joe Hisaishi, and was going to plan 2 weeks in France around that. First BSP Euro-gig here I come?

Does anyone know if the European dates usually sell out? Maybe I should get a ticket just in case...

[Gorfield]

shit the bed!!

PARADISO!!! that's one of the best venues I have ever been too and it so happens to be my wedding anniversary weekend!!

[Bastian]

Some nice spots there. Need to have a think!

First album tour with no Irish dates? Thought they would at least play Belfast as they usually get a good crowd there. Wouldn't blame them for not playing Dublin. The crowds there are rubbish. Galway would be lovely and they could finally play Man Of Aran there. Usually get decent numbers in Cork too.

[alonepiano]

Hi
Irish dates will follow as soon as we get festival news
Not forgotten

[Skinku]

A beautiful informed voice, there's a lot of love in here.

[Carrow]

Hi
Irish dates will follow as soon as we get festival news
Not forgotten

Absolutely seeing BSP in Dublin, and maybe Belfast and Galway too depending on what's announced!

[Carrow]

I know they've been confirmed but everyone loves a good tour poster, right? VISUALS!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BRUQMRnDld7/

[Blackout]

ooh, that's nice. I do love a band who bother to type Gebäude 9 with the umlaut and not just an added E. I believe there are a couple of people planning their first overseas awaydays for this tour - if you make one date, make it that one, best venue ever.

[TheAlex]

ooh, that's nice. I do love a band who bother to type Gebäude 9 with the umlaut and not just an added E. I believe there are a couple of people planning their first overseas awaydays for this tour - if you make one date, make it that one, best venue ever.

I saw your comment on Facebook so told a friend who is considering either Paris or Cologne. What makes the venue so special?

[Blackout]

I have no idea. Seriously.

I have a lot of friends in the area from back when we used to go watching The Chameleons who always played at Prime Club, as BSP have been doing in recent years (it was renamed Luxor in the mid 00s), horrible place. We had a big meet up in autumn 2003 which was the week before BSP's German tour, when I mentioned they were playing Gebäude 9 as opposed to the Prime Club (which most touring bands did then) basically all my mates decided to come even though most of them had never heard British Sea Power before. My friend Sonja, then a quite well known photographer on the German music scene, explained this by saying it was basically just the best place to see a band. (The gig was outstanding, still one of my favourites over 13 years and hundreds of gigs later).

You really wouldn't think it; it's quite a way out of the famous city centre in an industrial area where there was pretty much nothing at all when we were there in 03 (and again in 04 watching a different band). I recall on the latter occasion me and friend walking into the only bar anywhere near and the three very old people in it all staring at us like we were aliens. The venue itself is literally building number 9 of a large complex of semi abandoned industrial units. You'd be forgiven for thinking you were extremely lost and possibly about to get killed. Then we didn't go again for ages due to some years of having less money and some years of none of our fave bands playing there.

Went watching The Twilight Sad in 2015 and it was like can this place really live up to our golden memories? Well the area has been (very) slightly developed now, there's a couple of hotels nearby (though very expensive, I wouldn't bother, either stay in the city or at the Ibis Budget about 15 mins walk) and looks a little less like you're in some gritty nineties gangster flick, no sign of the scary bar either, but the venue itself looked the same. There are things going on in some of the other Gebäude now, artist studios and stuff - if you've ever been to Salford's Islington Mill there's a similar feel, there seemed to be quite a party going on in Gebäude 11. The hilariously badly taxidermied animal still looked in some pain high above the bar as it had done 12 years before. Still, the venue looked.... like a venue. Then they came on and it was genuinely the best I'd seen them. There's just something about the place, and I have heard similar from various fans, local national and international, of various bands. If I knew what it was I'd copy it and open a venue...

[TheAlex]

I've been to Islington Mill. I'll have to check out whatever band is on if I'm ever in Cologne. Your description reminds me of a concert I went to in an old communist industrial suburb of Krakow. We had to wait at a meeting point, from where a bus shipped us off through a huge industrial estate with all old pipes and weird buildings everywhere. I couldn't see much, because it was dark, but here's part of it:



The concert was in a sort of warehouse.

I don't know what happened to the hundreds of people that got stranded there after the concert. I was lucky enough to get on the crammed last bus to Krakow (the last tram had already left). The bendy bus was so full, no one could move, and there was a huge BOOOOMM every time it went over a speed bump or pothole.

[Bastian]

ooh, that's nice. I do love a band who bother to type Gebäude 9 with the umlaut and not just an added E. I believe there are a couple of people planning their first overseas awaydays for this tour - if you make one date, make it that one, best venue ever.

Really looking forward to this!

[Blackout]

ooh, that's nice. I do love a band who bother to type Gebäude 9 with the umlaut and not just an added E. I believe there are a couple of people planning their first overseas awaydays for this tour - if you make one date, make it that one, best venue ever.

Really looking forward to this!

Such a shame they're not doing Brussels Botanique again, such a genteel and civilised evening that turned out to be :)

[pomfob]

ooh, that's nice. I do love a band who bother to type Gebäude 9 with the umlaut and not just an added E. I believe there are a couple of people planning their first overseas awaydays for this tour - if you make one date, make it that one, best venue ever.

Really looking forward to this!

Such a shame they're not doing Brussels Botanique again, such a genteel and civilised evening that turned out to be :)

I swear, I'm still scared of going back to Brussels after that experience.