Featuring an all-star lineup, Better Lovers, have announced a slate of North American tour dates, with varying supports including Full of Hell (Nov. 3 to Dec. 2), SPY, Cloakroom and Gouge Away (Dec. 4 to Dec. 8). The run is in support of their upcoming debut album, Highly Irresponsible, due out on October 25th via SharpTone Records. The five-week trek kicks off on November 03rd in Asheville, N.C, with tickets for all dates on-sale from Friday August 09th, 10 a.m. local time. Keep reading below for more information.
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Tour dates:
November 3 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
November 4 Charleston, SC The Music Farm
November 5 Orlando, FL The Abbey
November 6 Tampa, FL The Orpheum
November 8 Charlotte, NC The Underground
November 9 Richmond, VA Canal Club
November 10 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Soundstage
November 11 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
November 13 Millvale, PA Mr. Smalls
November 14 Toronto, ON Opera House
November 15 Ottawa, ON Bronson Centre
November 16 Montreal QC Theatre Fairmount
November 17 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw
November 19 Detroit, MI The Magic Stick
November 20 Chicago, IL The Metro
November 21 Minneapolis, MN Lyric @ Skyway
November 23 Denver, CO The Summit
November 24 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
November 26 Seattle, WA The Crocodile
November 27 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
November 29 Berkeley, CA The UC Theatre
November 30 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory
December 1 Los Angeles, CA The Regent
December 2 Mesa, AZ The Nile
December 4 Dallas, TX Studio at The Factory
December 5 Oklahoma City, OK Beer City Music Hall
December 6 Lawrence, KS Granada Theater
December 7 St. Louis, MO Delmar Hall
December 8 Lakewood, OH The Roxy
Jordan Buckley (ex-Every Time I Die): “Writing and recording our first full length was slightly more surgical than the EP, but had a similar lack of restraint. I feel more pressure giving a quote for this press release than I felt all winter in Will’s studio. I got to wake up every day and watch the masters perfect their craft. I was a student. It was a playground. Everything was funny. We were reading each other’s minds. Even creating our own language at some points. I didn’t know if I was watching my closest friends write music, or if I was watching music use us to exist. The voice in my head warning me how Highly Irresponsible it was to hop on this bull again was gone. Replaced by big ideas, inside jokes, and a rejuvenated love for helping to write songs that don’t sound like anything else. Humans and animals alike are programmed to do wild things for what they love. Highly Irresponsible things. And we love what we’ve created. We know you will too.”
Greg Puciato (ex-Dillinger Escape Plan, Killer Be Killed) adds: “New album. First full length. It’s a typical thing to say, but we’re excited to start getting this out there. Everyone really brought their best to the album, and brought out the best in each other, and that goes for everyone behind-the-scenes too.”
Recorded this Spring, Highly Irresponsible benefits from the dual role of Will Putney (Fit For An Autopsy), who, besides being one of the band’s guitarists, also brings his production skills to the album. Putney explains, “Being a member of the band and the producer is actually a real advantage for Better Lovers. We’re so dialed in to exactly what we want to do, and our creative process is so in sync and natural that we rarely hit a wall when we work on music. My role is to capture the energy of the band the way it’s intended to sound: a band firing on all cylinders.”
Highly Irresponsible track list:
01 Lie Between The Lines
02 Your Misplaced Self
03 A White Horse Covered In Blood
04 Future Myopia
05 Deliver Us From Life
06 Drowning In A Burning World
07 Everything Was Put Here For Me
08 Superman Died Paralyzed
09 At All Times
10 Love As An Act of Rebellion
Better Lovers is Jordan Buckley, Clayton “Goose” Holyoak, Stephen Micciche, Greg Puciato and Will Putney. The band released their debut single “30 Under 13” in the Spring of 2023, followed by the four-song God Made Me An Animal EP that Summer. In December they launched an annual holiday event, BLissmas, which has already sold out in back-to-back years. In the short time since their inception, Better Lovers have traversed North America twice and played a spate of sold-out European shows and festivals.
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