{"id":24395,"date":"2017-02-14T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24395"},"modified":"2017-02-13T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T01:45:22","slug":"preoccupations-announce-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24395","title":{"rendered":"Preoccupations announce world tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preoccupations will be touring\u00a0this spring playing a series of North America dates including Coachella, Shaky Knees and Mission Creek Festivals and Canadian dates in Ottawa, Quebec City, Fredericton and Halifax. The dates will see the band cross North America\u00a0before they head to Europe to play more shows including Primavera Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Known for their commanding live show Preoccupations play with precision and a knife cutting tension. The Chicago Tribune rave <em>&#8220;With businesslike efficiency, the group generated maximum squall, guitars scraping like metal, the relentless, primal pulse of the drums pushing through the noise and Matt Flegel&#8217;s tense vocals leaping out of the murk&#8221;<\/em> while The Guardian state quite simply <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s a blisteringly intense form of release&#8230; and the songs are soaked in ominous tension.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tour dates are listed below with more shows both here in North America and the rest of the world to be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csMbqrFT1dM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h5>\nWorld tour dates<\/h5>\n<p>4.4.17 &#8211; Mission Creek Festival &#8211; Iowa City, IA<\/p>\n<p>4.13.17 &#8211; Casbah &#8211; San Diego, CA<\/p>\n<p>4.16.17 &#8211; Coachella &#8211; Indio, CA<\/p>\n<p>4.23.17 &#8211; Coachella &#8211; Indio, CA<\/p>\n<p>4.28.17 &#8211; Zaphod Beetlebrox &#8211; Ottawa, ONT<\/p>\n<p>4.30.17 &#8211; Le Cercle &#8211; Quebec City, QC<\/p>\n<p>5.3.17 &#8211; The Capital Complex &#8211; Fredericton, NB<\/p>\n<p>5.4.17 &#8211; The Seahorse Tavern &#8211; Halifax, NS<\/p>\n<p>5.5.17 &#8211; Columbus Theater &#8211; Providence, RI<\/p>\n<p>5.6.17 &#8211; The Ballroom at Outer Space &#8211; Hamden, CT<\/p>\n<p>5.8.16 &#8211; Metro Gallery &#8211; Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n<p>5.9.16 &#8211; Strange Matter &#8211; Richmond, VA<\/p>\n<p>5.12.17 &#8211; Shaky Knees Festival &#8211; Atlanta, GA<\/p>\n<p>5.24.17 &#8211; De Kreun &#8211; Kortrijk, Belgium<\/p>\n<p>5.25.17 &#8211; Vera &#8211; Grongingen, Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>5.26.17 &#8211; Immergut &#8211; Neustrelitz, Germany<\/p>\n<p>5.27.17 &#8211; NoD &#8211; Prague, CZ<\/p>\n<p>5.28.17 &#8211; A38 &#8211; Budapest, Hungary<\/p>\n<p>5.29.17 &#8211; Tmuna &#8211; Tel Aviv, Israel<\/p>\n<p>6.3.17 &#8211; Primavera Sound &#8211; Barcelona, Spain<\/p>\n<p>6.7.17 &#8211; Beaches Brew Festival &#8211; Marina Di Ravenna, Italy<\/p>\n<p>7.30.17 &#8211; Panorama Festival &#8211; New York, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Preoccupations will be touring\u00a0this spring playing a series of North America dates including Coachella, Shaky Knees and Mission Creek Festivals and Canadian dates in Ottawa, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=24395\" title=\"Preoccupations announce world tour\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,25,28],"tags":[4958,4959,4957,5881],"class_list":["post-24395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-live","category-music","tag-anxiety","tag-flemish-eye","tag-preoccupations","tag-world-tour-dates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/9fb23332-538b-406c-b65e-9ac1a9ef2db9.png?fit=483%2C606","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-6lt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29380,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=29380","url_meta":{"origin":24395,"position":0},"title":"Preoccupations release new live video for &#8216;Decompose&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"June 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Preoccupations have just finished an eventful North American tour where they were robbed not once, but twice, having all of their instruments and gear stolen. 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