Wolf Parade head back to Europe

Wolf Parade are back on the road in Europe!
Playing Into the Great Wide Open Festival today on Vlieland, a small island off the coast of The Netherlands. Wolf Parade are on at 7:30pm CEST (1:30pm EST, 10:30 PST) and you can watch pictures and videos coming in from festival goers over at the Into the Great Wide Open website and over at the 3Voor12 site. Here is the complete list of European dates. If you’re heading to any of these shows, let us know your thoughts over on the forum.

09-03 Vlieland, NL – Into the Great Wide Open Festival
09-05 Stradbally, IE – Electric Picnic Festival
09-06 Belfast, UK – Spring & Airbrake
09-08 Edinburgh, UK – Cabaret Voltaire
09-09 Leeds,UK – The Brudenell Social Club*
09-10 Dorset, UK – End of the Road Festival
09-11 Bristol, UK – Thekla
09-12 Birmingham, UK – Glee Club
09-15 London, UK – HMV Forum
09-17 Leffinge, BE – The Leffingeleuren Festival
09-18 Paris, FR – Point Ephemere
09-19 Basel, CH – Kaserne
09-21 Munich, DE – 59:1
09-22 Vienna, AT – Flex
09-24 Hamburg, DE – Reeperbahn Festival
09-25 Berlin, DE – Magnet Club
09-27 Copenhagen, DK – Vega
09-28 Oslo, NO – Parkteatret
09-29 Stockholm, SE – Debaser Medis
10-01 Helsinki, FI – Tavastia

* with support from Honour Before Glory

Halifax Pop Explosion

Handsome Furs have just been added to the official line up for the Halifax Pop Explosion Festival. The five day festival takes place October 19th-23rd. While the official schedule has not been released, it looks like Handsome Furs are set to play Saturday the 23rd at St. Mathews Church along with fellow Montréalais Silly Kissers. Tickets will be $15 in advance and $20 day of. I will post when tickets go on sale as soon as I know.

Asia Tour Poster

You can now purchase this amazing Handsome Furs tour poster through the Handsome Furs Online Store. There is a limited quantity, so get yours now! Thanks to the kind people at Idle Beats for creating this!

In other tour poster news, Wolf Parade’s July 2010 North American tour poster is completely sold out. Hopefully there will be a new tour poster in November!

Serve the People

Here’s a brand new song from Handsome Furs, ‘Serve the People’ performed live at the Baybeats Festival in Singapore:

Handsome Furs – Baybeats Music Festival

Photo Cred: i.am.leon

Yesterday Handsome Furs played not once but twice at the Baybeats Music Festival in Singapore. The three day festival (which is FREE!) features local, regional, and international alternative rock acts. Handsome Furs headlined the Outdoor Theater on Sunday night with an amazing backdrop of the open bay and the Singapore skyline.

Shanghai

Handsome Furs played Yuyintang in Shanghai last week.
Check out these amazing photos Kyle Fong took at this show! There’s also a short review of the show over at Shanghai.Talkmagazines.cn.

The band have added a new tour date in Manila! This will be the first time Handsome Furs will visit the Philippines:

08-24 Route 196 – Manila, Philippines

You can now listen to a great audio interview the duo did in Hong Kong with Caroline Chan of RTHK HERE.

Handsome Furs are in Asia

Asia Tour Shirt – Designed by Alexei

Handsome Furs are in Beijing tonight! Just read this on twitter:

@beijingdaze The Handsome Furs gig at 2 Kolegas tonight might be their biggest of the year. over 300 tickets sold on pre-sale!

Check out a few interviews, write ups, and reviews we found as well as a great contest courtesy of Split Works here.

Wolf Parade head back to North America

Looks like the boys will make their way back through North America in November. Tickets are on sale now:

11-03 Wellmont Theatre – Montclair, NJ
11-04 Trocadero – Philadelphia, PA
11-05 Ram’s Head Live – Baltimore, MD
11-06 Lincoln Theatre – Raleigh, NC(on sale TBD)
11-08 Music Farm – Charleston, SC
11-09 Social – Orlando, FL
11-10 Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason – Miami, FL
11-12 Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
11-13 The Lyric Oxford – Oxford, MS
11-15 Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater – Austin, TX
11-16 Granada Theater – Dallas, TX
11-18 The Englert Theater – Iowa City, IA
11-19 Granada – Lawrence, KS
11-20 Pageant – St. Louis, MO
11-22 Exit/In – Nashville, TN
11-23 House of Blues – Chicago, IL
11-24 Crofoot Ballroom – Pontiac, MI
11-26 Sound Academy – Toronto, ON

Japanese band Ogre You Asshole will be the support band for this leg of the tour. Also, Wolf Parade are now number 1 on the campus charts in Canada!!! Check it out over at ChartAttack.com

Handsome Furs Asia Tour 2010

Handsome Furs begin their 2010 tour of Asia tonight in Hong Kong. If you’re going to any of these shows please post your reviews/pictures/videos on our forum.

08-04 Grappa’s Cellar – Hong Kong
08-06 Yuyintang – Shanghai, China
08-07 VOX Livehouse – Wuhan, China
08-08 2 Kolegas – Beijing, China
08-12 Club Guess – Daegu, South Korea*
08-13 V-Hall – Seoul, South Korea*
08-14 Vinyl Underground – Busan, South Korea*
08-19 Club Culture – Bangkok, Thailand
08-20 Guitarman – Chiang Mai, Thailand
08-22 Baybeats Music Festival – Singapore
08-24 Route 196 – Manila, Philippines

* with support from Teengirl Fantasy

Wolf Parade – Live in Los Angeles

Photo cred: STG

Wolf Parade played The Wiltern in Los Angeles on Saturday and it was the last show of their current North American tour. We would like to thank the band for an amazing month of shows. Wolf Parade head back out on their second tour through Europe in September.

Check out the setlist, reviews, and videos from the Los Angeles show here