Originally written by Luke Slater · 29 July 2009
Energetic yet rigidly robotic rockers Baddies have just revealed dates for an upcoming UK and European tour which, if written out on a piece of paper with every word end to end, would stretch to the moon and halfway back again. No kidd'n. It's also a tour that they'll be the main attraction, i.e headlining.
Here are the myriad of festival dates they are currently due to play:
August: 1 - Nozstock Festival, Herefordshire 1 - Leopallooza Festival, Cornwall 7 - Open Flair Festival, Eschwege 13 - Haldern Festival, Haldern 14 - Oya Festival, Oya, Norway 15 - Rocko Del Schalko, Puettlingen, Germany 16 - Summer Sundae, Leicester 20 - Pukkelpop Festival, Hasselt 21 - Frequency Festival, Salzburg, Austria 22 - Highfield Festival, Hohenfolden, Germany 23 - Area 4 Festival, Dortmund 27 - Esquires, Bedford 28 - Leeds Festival, Leeds 29 - Reading Festival, Reading
September: 12 - Bestival, Isle of Wight
And here is the plethora of headline dates lined up which have just been announced. You may very well want to take a deep breath for this one...
Baddies Headline UK Dates: October: 1 - Academy 2, Dublin, Ireland 2 - Auntie Annie's, Belfast, Northern Ireland 4 - Captain's Rest, Glasgow 5 - The Cluny, Newcastle 7 - Cockpit, Leeds 8 - Moho, Manchester 9 - Rock City, Nottingham 10 - Academy 2, Birmingham 12 - Borderline, London
Headline European Dates: October: 14 - Nouveau Casion, Paris, France 15 - Botanique, Brussels, Belgium 16 - Trix, Antwerp, Belgium 18 - Rotown, Rotterdam, Netherlands 19 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands 20 - Loppen, Cophenhagen, Denmark 21 - Nosturi, Helsinki, Finland 22 - John Dee, Oslo, Norway 23 - Sticky Fingers, Gothenburg, Sweden 24 - Debaser, Stockholm, Sweden 26 - Molotow, Hamburg, Germany 27 - Magnet, Berlin, Germany 28 - Blue Note, Poznan, Poland 30 - Beatpol, Dresden, Germany 31 - Sweat, Leipzig, Germany
November: 2 - Lucerna Music B, Prague, Czech Rep. 5 - B72, Vienna, Austria 6 - 59 to 1, Munich, Germany 11 - Hafenkneipe, Zurich, Switzerland 12 - Shocken, Stuttgart, Germany 13 - Karlstorbahnof, Heidelberg, Germany 14 - Nachtlenben, Frankfurt, Germany 15 - Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany
Yeah, so that's a fucking lot of dates. Talk about singing for your supper...
There's also more good Baddies news in the form of a debut album, in that they've got one coming out. It's called Do The Job and will be released on September 21 through the band's own label, Medical and will be preceded by single 'Open One Eye' one week before.
Front cover looks like this:
We can only hope it lives up to its title. And more.