Blue October Books More ‘Sway’ Shows

For those of you who weren’t following along on Twitter, Blue October’s Justin Furstenfeld revealed the second leg of the band’s spring tour today, date by date, over the course of seven and a half hours. We won’t make you wait that long. Just keep reading.

The alternative rockers are supporting their seventh studio album, Sway, which was released in August. 

Photo: Scott Legato / RockStarProPhotography.com
"The Night 89X Stole Christmas," The Fillmore, Detroit, Mich.

Pollstar talked to Furstenfeld about the LP during the second of two Q&A’s with the frontman in 2013.

The vocalist/guitarist describes Sway as “a bit of a night and day experience” compared to the band’s previous albums.

“The last album we put out, Any Man In America, and any album before that was pretty much a self-explained diary of what turmoil I was going through at the time,” Furstenfeld told Pollstar. “While I don’t regret writing about things like that, especially in Any Man In America, because that was probably to this day the most important thing I’d ever done in my live … After that album I had to take a big look at myself and say, If I’m going to continue making music, it can no longer be about how hard this life is. … When I started recording [Sway] it was more work but man how much more fulfilling to not sit there and sing about what a f**king sad life I had and to be able to sing about hope.”

The first leg of 2014 Sway Tour kicks off March 14 in Abilene, Texas, at the Lucky Mule Saloon.

Here’s the itinerary for the second set of gigs:
 
April 13 – Fayetteville, Ark., George’s Majestic Lounge     
May 1 – Pensacola, Fla., Vinyl Music Hall     
May 7 – Nashville, Tenn., Exit / In     
May 8 – Bloomington, Ill., The Castle Theatre     
May 9 – Louisville, Ky., Mercury Ballroom     
May 13 – Toronto, Ontario, Phoenix Concert Theatre     
May 14 – Pittsburgh, Pa., The Altar Bar     
May 15 – Stroudsburg, Pa., Sherman Theater     
May 16 – Westbury, N.Y., The Space At Westbury     
May 17 – Baltimore, Md., Baltimore Soundstage     
May 18 – North Myrtle Beach, S.C., House Of Blues     
May 21 – Rochester, N.Y., Main Street Armory     
May 22 – Flint, Mich., The Machine Shop     
May 23 – Traverse City, Mich., Ground Zero

Presales for select dates begin Thursday, Feb. 13. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, Feb. 14.

Visit BlueOctober.com for more information and click here and here for Pollstar’s interviews with Justin Furstenfeld.
 

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