Published
Thu, Apr 9, 2009, 15:10
- Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner are back with their first US tour in over five years.
Fischerspooner will embark on their first US tour in over five years this May.
As you'd expect from eccentric and outlandish frontman Casey Spooner, there's a big emphasis on visuals and high production values on the tour, with a show that references Vaudeville, Japanese Kabuki and avant-garde theatre. Kicking off on May 6th at Philidelphia's Theatre Of Living Arts, it's pretty much a case of where the tour isn't going over the course of its nineteen dates. After two shows in their hometown, the duo hit the road to take in Washington, Boston, Texas, Atlanta, Denver, San Diego, LA, Anaheim, San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis and Seattle before moving north of the border for a sole Canadian date in Toronto.
The show is likely to lean heavily on material from their forthcoming Entertainment album, which hits shelves a couple of days before the tour starts. During the recording process of the record, Spooner appeared with experimental production company The Wooster Group in their production of Hamlet, which apparently "led to a series of workshops with the entire Fischerspooner company being trained in many of the company's signature techniques, which are now integrated with their own brand of postmodern showmanship." How this is going to affect the actual performance remains to be seen, but it seems like the electro-clash pioneers are intent on putting on a big budget show to signify their return.