When Jim James, Conor Oberst, and M. Ward toured together, they billed themselves as the Monsters of Folk. So, when Frightened Rabbit, the Twilight Sad, and We Were Promised Jetpacks join forces, are we to call them the Monsters of Scottish Emo?
The three acts all specialize in grand, stirring, emotionally-wrought guitar-rock sung in brogues of varying thickness. And, along with the less-impressive-but-still-anthemically-sad Broken Records, they're turning Scotland into the land in which emo is somehow cool. Not to mention, actually good.
The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbits, and We Were Promised Jetpacks are uniting forces and bringing stark Scots miserablism to the Americas; uniting for a touring roadshow that goes from West to Deep South through September. In an interview with We Were Promised Jetpacks bassist Sean Smith, I learnt that recent Twilight Sad/WWPJ hijinks in Manchester ended with the bands drunk and in gay bars, so who knows what mischief awaits when you set a dozen Scotsmen loose upon the US.
The three-strong tour will coincide with the release of the Twilight Sad's second LP, Forget the Night Ahead. The much-anticipated follow-up to 2007's Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters will be released, on Fat Cat, on September 22, right when the touring party is arriving in Arizona...
The Scottish Are Coming!:
September 13: Morrison, CO - Monolith Festival
September 14: Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
September 15: Boise, ID - Neurolux
September 16: Seattle, WA - Neumo's
September 17: Portland, OR - Dante's/Musicfest NW
September 18: San Francisco, CA - The Independent
September 20: Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory
September 22: Tucson, AZ - Plush
September 24: Austin, TX - The Mohawk
September 26: Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
September 27: Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
September 28: Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder
September 29: Orlando, FL - The Social
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