Johnny Marr sets new North American Tour dates this spring

Johnny Marr delivered an amazing concert at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles in October 2018. Read my review here. If you have not caught him in concert (or have), you know you need to get to one of his upcoming tour dates...

Johnny Marr announces North American Tour



Dates set for April and May of 2019

Smiths’ guitar legend Johnny Marr, winner of British GQ's 2018 "Man Of The Year" Lifetime Achievement Award and NME’s “God-Like Genius” award has announced he is returning to North America in the spring. The extensive coast-to-coast run includes Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit, Denver and more. Tickets are on-sale at JohnnyMarr.com and a full list of dates is below. Last year, Marr released the critically acclaimed album Call The Comet. Recorded with his band in Manchester at Marr’s Crazy Face Factory, Call The Comet follows his previous UK Top 10 albums The Messenger (2013) and Playland (2014). Says Marr: "Call The Comet is my own magic realism. It’s set in the not-too-distant future and is mostly concerned with the idea of an alternative society. The characters in the songs are searching for a new idealism, although there are some personal songs in there too. It’s something that people like me can relate to.”

Praise for Johnny Marr’s live show: “His gruffer, but by no means unrefined, vocals lend fresh flavour to the Smiths tracks he drops intermittently into the set; his fired-up “Bigmouth”, stabbed through with trademark arpeggios, seems designed to remind us that the Smiths were as much gobby post-punk rabble as they were foppish ego cult, while “The Headmaster Ritual” could be Daytripper-era Beatles with switchblades up their blazer sleeves.” (4 Stars) - The Guardian “Marr (was) showcasing his great new album which somehow manages to combine those perfect Marr-lodies with a whiff of early eighties post-punk melancholy but also nods to that patented chiming guitar sound that he trademarked in the Smiths. The new album is his finest solo offering yet and the gig was a celebration of this and his own back pages...a perfect example of how seamlessly it all fits together into a continuous career whole in a sweatshod celebration of a decades long quest of guitar pop brilliance.” - Louder Than War “...the songs themselves sounded urgent and engaged. Guitar solos emerged with power and clarity within songs.” - The Financial Times

TOUR 04/27 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse 04/28 - Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre 04/29 - Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre 05/01 - Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont Theater 05/03 - Providence, RI @ Fete Music Hall 05/04 - New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall 05/06 - Huntington, NY @ The Paramount 05/07 - South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom 05/08 - Portland, ME @ Aura 05/10 - London, ON @ London Music Hall 05/11 - Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrews Hall 05/13 - Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre 05/14 - Milwaukee, WI @ The . Pabst Theater 05/15 - Kansas City, MO @ Voodoo Lounge at Harrah's 05/16 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre 05/18 - Las Vegas @ Brooklyn Bowl 05/19 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues 05/20 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues 05/21 - Los Angeles, CA @ John Anson Ford Ampitheatre

Watch the video for “The Tracers” HERE. Watch the video for “Hi Hello” HERE. Watch the video for "Sprial Cities" HERE. Johnny spoke with Rolling Stone about Call The Comet HERE. Order Call The Comet HERE.

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