Exclusive: MGMT to play three September dates in Dublin
With a mere ten days to go until the official release of their widely-leaked second album, MGMT have announced details of their biggest UK & Ireland headline tour to date. Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden have often alluded in interviews to not being huge fans of hitting the road, but that’s exactly what they’ll be doing throughout much of September. And even though their official tour schedule only lists one Dublin date thus far – the opening night of the tour no less – Ragged Words happens to know a man who knows a man who knows a man who says there will be three back-to-back nights in The Olympia. So there.
In other MGMT-related news, on Tuesday the band unveiled a pretty nightmarish video for ‘Flash Delirium’, the first track from Congratulations to see the light of day on the interwebs. The video, a bizarre collision of Wes Anderson and Videodrome, is now streaming alongside the new record in its entirety over on the band’s official site. A full album release will follow on April 12th through Columbia.
Tour deets after this colon:
MGMT – Live – September 2010
16.09 @ DUBLIN Olympia
20.09 @ GLASGOW Barrowlands
23.09 @ BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
24.09 @ BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy
26.09 @ MANCHESTER Apollo
29.09 @ LONDON Brixton O2 Academy
30.09 @ LONDON Brixton O2 Academy
Tickets for all the above shows go on general sale next Friday, April 9th @ 9am.
Fan club pre-sale is available through the band’s mailing list from Wednesday, April 7th.
For more info on all matters MGMT, visit whoismgmt.com
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