Devin Townsend will be touring Europe and India in the new year on an acoustic solo tour presented in the ‘An Evening With Devin Townsend’ format. In addition to performing tracks from his catalog, Townsend will also be taking part in Q&A’s. He spoke of the trek with the following statement/update:
“Hello everyone, Devin here. I have been busy making my newest recording, EMPATH over the past year. It has been a complicated and enlightening experience in that I have gone back to my roots in terms of what my motivations are for making music, in hopes that I am able to move forward as a musician being as true as I possibly can to my motivations.
The result is an album that I am exceptionally proud of, one that is uncompromised and diverse in ways that accurately represent where I’m at now at the age of 46. The past decade of relentless touring with DTP had been something that caught up with me in a big way, and as a result I felt I needed to step back from that world and analyse myself and make this music before stepping onto a stage again.
The time has come however for me to take the next step in my career, and when asked about how I would like to do so, I decided the first thing I would do was a very intimate run of shows that allows me to play my music stripped back to just me and a guitar. The shows are at nice venues, and includes a spoken word element with questions from the audience as well as aspects of my entire career represented in this one show.
Before I tour with a band again, I wanted to have the opportunity to play for you, and meet up with the people who not only have made my work possible, but inspire me to continue. In a world of computers and social media, to be stripped of all the bells and whistles is a very important step for my reintroduction to the live concert world. I truly hope you’ll join me and I look forward to being the most honest I can be with you at these special shows.
Thank you to Andy Farrow and Northern Music, Thomas Waber and Inside Out records, as well as all who have supported me during this period. I have not been as proud of an album as I am of Empath in many years, and I really needed to get this out of my system.
See you at the shows.
Love
Devin Townsend“
03/07 Delhi, IND – Piano Man Jazz Club
03/08 Mumbai, IND – Levi’s Lounge
03/30 Helsinki, FIN – Savoy-Teatteri
03/31 Stockholm, SWE – Sodra Teatern
04/01 Oslo, NOR – Edderkopeen
04/02 Copenhagen, DEN – Bremen Theater
04/04 Berlin, GER – PassionsKirche
04/05 Warsaw, POL – Stodola
04/06 Prague, CZE – La Fabrica
04/07 Munich, GER – Freiheiz
04/09 Cologne, GER – Kulturkirche
04/10 Hamburg, GER – Gruenspan
04/11 Haarlem, NET – St. Bavokerk
04/24 London, UK – Bush Hall
04/25 London, UK – Bush Hall
04/26 Bristol, UK – St. George’s
04/27 Leeds, UK – City Varieties
04/29 Edinburgh, UK – Jam House
04/30 Birmingham, UK – Glee Club
While Townsend has plans to release a new album titled “Empath” in 2019, December 07th will find him putting out the third wave of the ongoing ‘Eras‘ vinyl box set reissues series. “Accelerated Evolution“, “Epicloud“, “Sky Blue“, “Transcendence” and “Devin Townsend Presents: Ziltoid Live At The Royal Albert Hall” are included amongst this latest wave.
