On January 17th, the World/Inferno Friendship Society will release our first new album in over five years – and the first one with me playing on it! To celebrate, we’re touring to Texas, Florida, and up the East Coast in January and to the West Coast in February. In between tours, I’ll make a quick stop in NYC to play a show with other Gold Bolus Recordings label artists. Read on for details!
Photo by Steven Pisano
| First, a quick recap since last time: thingNY gave a short performance at the MATA Festival 2019 Gala (see photo above) and premiered a new program at Areté in Brooklyn that received a very positive review in I Care If You Listen. World/Inferno performed in New Jersey and Long Island, then released our new album All Borders Are Porous to Cats on New Year’s Eve in Brooklyn (online release: January 17). We also released a cat-filled lyric video for our song Freedom is a Wilderness, check it out! Tomorrow I fly to Texas for the first in a series of tours to promote World/Inferno’s new album. On this tour, we’ll hit Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Orlando, Lake Worth, Miami, Jacksonville, Athens, Atlanta, Chapel Hill, Richmond, Baltimore, and Philly. In February, we’ll join up with Portland, OR old-time/punk band Bridge City Sinners and together tour to Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Sacramento, Oakland, LA, Long Beach, Mesa, Albuquerque, Denver, and Colorado Springs. It should be a blast, and I hope you’ll come out for a fun, high-energy show if you live along the tour routes! I’m especially excited for the shows in Miami and Vancouver – I’ve never been to either city, and the Miami show will take place on my 35th birthday! Also in February, I’m looking forward to playing my first Super Bolus in Brooklyn at Muchmore’s. Gold Bolus label head Dave Ruder started a tradition a few years ago of holding an event around the time of the Super Bowl where artists on the label could collaborate. I’ve been featured on several albums on the label, including albums by my groups thingNY and Valerie Kuehne & the Wasps Nests, and I’m looking forward to playing with Dave and others on February 1. Further ahead, my February 25-March 1 tour with Marbleous, my duo improv music project with Austrian collaborator Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka on bass, will take us from Boston to DC. In March, thingNY will perform Dave Ruder’s You Must Read a Lot of Jung in the Bronx. In April, thingNY has our ADDDDDDDDD run at Spectrum (as part of the MATA Festival), and this summer, look out for World/Inferno in Europe! Deep Sea Dive, Jeff |