The Jesus and Mary Chain have announced a forthcoming North American tour with the Psychedelic Furs, set to take place later this year. The tour is scheduled to begin in Philadelphia on September 29 and will include various cities across the continent through to November 11, where it will conclude at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. Newcomer Frankie Rose will also be set to open the show in addition to the Psychedelic Furs.
The tour dates for the upcoming shows can be found below. Tickets for the concert can be found here:
SEPTEMBER
29 – Philadelphia, PA, Franklin Music Hall
OCTOBER
1 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall
2 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theater
4 – New York, NY – The Beacon Theatre
5 – Brooklyn, NY – The Brooklyn Paramount
6 – Washington, D.C. – The Anthem
8 – Rochester, NY – Kodak Center Music Hall
9 – Toronto, Ontario – Queen Elizabeth Theater
11 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Cathedral Theater
12 – Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre
13 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed
16 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
17 – St. Paul, MN – The Palace
19 – Des Moines, IA – Val-Air Ballroom
20 – St. Louis, MO – Stifel Theatre
22 – La Vista, NE – The Astro
23 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
24 – Salina, KS – Stiefel Theatre
26 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
29 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
30 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
NOVEMBER
1 – Redding, CA – Redding Civic Auditorium
2 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
3 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort Grand Theatre
6 – Riverside, CA – Fox Performing Arts Center
8 – San Diego, CA – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
9 – Inglewood, CA – YouTube Theater
In another update, it was reported that The Jesus and Mary Chain and Robert Fripp were among a few artists who filed a lawsuit against the PRS over songwriter royalties. The lawsuit was filed over the way the organization manages royalties from live performances, with the said artists accusing PRS of charging high administrative costs for smaller songwriters while giving special treatment to the more prominent ones. The songwriters have partnered with PACE Rights Management, a global organization that oversees direct licensing of live public performance rights, in their struggle, and have also urged music writers and publishers to guide their live public execution rights without having to go through the PRS
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