Off! to play Europe, including first UK shows
aaamusic | On 05, Aug 2011
OFF! to play debut UK shows this week
New Video for ‘Compared To What’ online now
http://www.youtube.com/tOLRA85UcfM
OFF! are all set to head to the UK this week. See below for a full list of their forthcoming dates across Europe. The band have also unveiled a live video for ‘Compared To What’, filmed for Incase Room 205.
The individual roots established by Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks), Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), Steven McDonald (Redd Kross), and Mario Rubalcaba (Earthless/Hot Snakes/Rocket From the Crypt) are uniquely woven throughout the rock music canon. Each has challenged society’s cyclical and complacent ideals in their own respective bands, and three decades on they’ve never strayed from their intentions. Now they come together as a four-piece called OFF! and they’re as confrontational as ever, lunging inside the aesthetic of West Coast hardcore to push life’s most provocative issues to the forefront. The pinch-hitting First Four EPs mark their explosive approach for a total of 16 songs in just under 18 minutes. The band split its recording into only two sessions, with the first nine songs completed in January 2010, while the latter half was hammered out on August 25th of last year.
EUROPEAN DATES –
Aug 5 Thekla Bristol UK
Aug 6 Hevy Music Festival Kent UK
Aug 7 Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth UK
Aug 9 Hafenklang Hamburg, GERMANY
Aug 12 Oyafestival Oslo, NORWAY
Aug 13 Way Out West Festival Goteborg, SWEDEN
Aug 14 Bakken (w/Fucked Up) Copenhagen, DENMARK
Aug 16 SO36 (w/Fucked Up) Berlin, GERMANY
Aug 17 59:1 (w/Fucked Up) Munich, GERMANY
Aug 18 Schlachthof (w/Fucked Up) Wiesbaden, GERMANY
Aug 19 Underground (w/Fucked Up) Cologne, GERMANY
Aug 20 Pukkelpop Festival Hasselt, BELGIUM
Aug 23 Doornroosje (w/The Bronx) Nijmegen, NETHERLANDS
Aug 24 Melkweg (w/The Bronx) Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Aug 25 XOYO (w/Fucked Up) London, UK
Aug 26 Leeds Festival UK
Aug 28 Reading Festival UK
