Originally written by TheBoyDeadly · 6 May 2008
Tom Waits will tour the western world this summer, confirming he’ll play live in Europe soon after revealing a series of US dates.
The singer said as much during a spoof press conference recorded by his label Anti- for YouTube, in which Waits claimed the tour trail was plotted in relation to the constellation Hydra and compared himself to the “magi that found the Christ child.”
Here are the US dates confirmed so far:
June 17-18 Phoenix Orpheum 20 El Paso Plaza Theatre 22 Houston Jones Hall 23 Dallas Palladium 25 Tulsa Brady Theatre 26 St Louis Fox Theatre 28 Columbus Ohio Theatre 29 Knoxville Civicc Theatre
July 1 Jacksonville Theatre 2 Mobile Saenger Theatre 3 Birmingham Alabama Theatre 5 Atlanta Fox Theatre