Machine Head have announced a summer UK/European tour. Following a similar theme of their recently announced July US tour, this overseas leg of the ‘Killers & Kings Tour‘ will find the band playing markets less traveled. Further dates will take place overseas in November/December. Vocalist/guitarist Robb Flynn said of the trek:
“In keeping with the intimate club tour-vibe we are doing in the USA this summer, for our first time ever, we decided to blow off 90% of all Euro summer festivals, and hit the nooks and crannies of the UK and Europe as well. We will be doing no major cities in any territories throughout Europe and the UK for this first leg of 2014.
No London, no Berlin, etc, and instead focusing on the die-hard Machine Head fans that who don’t often get the chance to see us because the travel is too far or too costly to get the big cities.
I remember when we were out with Metallica doing festivals a few years ago, we played in a small out-of-the-way city in Denmark called Aarhus, we’d never played there let alone, ever even heard of the fucking place. We were all a bit grumbly before the show, and you know what? It ended up being one of the funnest shows we’ve ever done. Doing shows like this, it creates an energy, it creates a bond, something unbreakable, and it is really fucking fun. It’s Machine Head without all the big production, the bells and whistles, stripped down and raw.
What will be really cool is that in the UK, we’ve never done a club tour, it happened so fast for us there that other than a handful of epically insane, wildly drunken Ten Ton Hammer club shows, we’ve only played bigger halls, so we are really looking forward to giving our fans something special there. Plus, we’ve been hearing from our Scottish fans for decades that we need to get to Edinburgh!!! So finally, 21 years into our existence, we’re coming, and we’re ready to fucking plunder Scotland!!!!”
A new album from the group will arrive later this year. Until then, they will be releasing a limited edition single for the demo version of their new track “Killers & Kings” on ‘Record Store Day‘ (April 19th.)
07/29 Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
07/31 Edinburgh, UK – Liquid Rooms
08/02 Newcastle, UK – Newcastle University
08/03 Norwich, UK – Waterfront
08/04 Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
08/06 Zwolle, NET – Hedon
08/07 Antwerp, BEL – Trix
08/08 Luxembourg, LUX – Den Atelier
08/09 Winterthur, SWI – Salzhaus
08/11 Dornbirn, AUT – Conrad Salm
08/12 Prague, CZE – Roxy
08/13 Warsaw, POL – Palladium
08/15 Dinkelsbuhl, GER – Summerbreeze
08/16 Hamburg, GER – Elb Riot
08/17 Herford, GER – X Fest
08/19 Aarhus, DEN – Train
08/21 Stavanger, NOR – Folken
08/22 Gothenburg, SWE – Tradgarn
