The Ocean will be touring throughout China and Hong Kong in September, dates for that run include:

09/22 Shanghai – Yuyintang
09/23 Wuhan – Vox
09/24 Chengdu – Little Bar
09/25 Chongqing – Nuts
09/29 Guangzhou – 191 Space
09/30 Hong Kong – Hidden Agenda
10/02 Zhuhai – Zhuhai Music Festival 2011
10/04 Zhenjiang – Modern Sky Festival
10/05 Beijing – Modern Sky Festival
10/06 Beijing – Mao (tbc)

Meanwhile, a recent Facebook post from the band offered the following tidbit:

“Right after these dates, mid-October until end of November, we will be returning to the US for the 2nd time this year. We will be direct support this time, playing a 40 minutes set, for a band that we can’t name just yet. We know how much you like speculating about these kinda things, so bring on those rumors…”

Because speculating and rumors are relevant to my interests. I’ll just put it out there that there’s a band who like to plan a lot and have numerous options that will be headlining North America right around that timeframe…