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[jefflewis]

Hey did I even mention the whole big USA tour we're embarking on this week??
Here it is! (the ticket links don't work below but they work on my website)


JEFFREY LEWIS & THE JUNKYARD USA TOURDATES Oct-Nov 2012

***All shows ALL-AGES except 10/31***

(If anybody can offer the band a place to sleep on any of these dates, please let us know at JeffLewisBand@gmail.com - thanks!!)

Mon-Oct-22 Boston, MA TT the Bear's, (10 Brookline St., Central Sq., Cambridge) w/The Ballroom Thieves and ACLU Benefit ($10)

Tue-Oct-23 Hamden, CT The Space w/ Langhorne Slim


Thu-Oct-25 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live (3025 Walnut Street, 19104) w/ Birdie Busch.

Fri-Oct-26 College show somewhere, TBA

Sat-Oct-27 Fredericksburg, VA FAA at Read All Over Books (307 William st.) 7pm, (w/ Fast Heart Mart, and Alex Culbreth & The Dead Country Stars). $5 adv. TIX HERE

Sun-Oct-28 Durham, NC Duke Coffeehouse (Crowell Bldg, East Campus, Duke U, Durham NC 27708), w/ Dolfish and Cottontail, $5

Mon-Oct-29 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade (695 North Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30308), w/John Vournakis, and China Blue. $10 adv., TIX HERE.

Tue-Oct-30 Birmingham, AL Workplay Theater (500 23rd St. S., Birmingham, AL 35233) w/ Delicate Cutters (Tix $12 for 21+, $15 for under-21... and no one under 18 will be admitted without someone 18+ with them.) TIX HERE.

Wed-Oct-31 Hot Springs, AR Maxine's

Thu-Nov-1 Ft. Worth, TX Lola's

Fri-Nov-2 Austin, TX Fun Fun Fun Fest Free late show

Sat-Nov-3 Marfa, TX El Cosmico

Sun-Nov-4 Phoenix, AZ Trunkspace

Mon-Nov-5 Los Angeles, CA Echo Country Outpost (1770 Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90026)

Tue-Nov-6 Visalia, CA Velouria Records (Free show!)

Wed-Nov-7 Monterey, CA Golden State Theatre

Thu-Nov-8 San Francisco, CA Cafe du Nord (2170 Market St., 94114)

Fri-Nov-9 Portland, OR Backspace (115 NW 5th) w/ Felsen, $10. TIX HERE.

Sat-Nov-10 Olympia, WA The Northern, w/ Kimya Dawson

Sun-Nov-11 Seattle, WA The Vera Project (corner of Warren & Republican Ave N, next to Key Arena in Seattle Center), w/ Kimya Dawson, TIX HERE.

Mon-Nov-12 Missoula, MT The Palace

Tue-Nov-13 Billings, MT - Manny's

Wed-Nov-14 Fargo, ND The Aquarium

Thu-Nov-15 Ames, IA Ames Progressive

Fri-Nov-16- Beloit College, WI the "Coughy House" (50 miles s. of Madison, 70m. sw. of Milwaukee)

Sat-Nov-17 Evanston, IL SPACE (1245 Chicago Avenue, Evanston IL 60202) (7 miles N. from central Chicago) TIX HERE.

Sun-Nov-18 Grand Rapids, MI Division Avenue Arts Collective (115 S. Division, Heartside, 49503)

Mon-Nov-19 Cleveland Heights, OH Grog Shop (2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., 44106) w/ Picklefight Puppets, and Andrew Pitrone & His Best Wishes. $8. TIX HERE.

Tue-Nov-20 Baltimore, MD Golden West

Wed-Nov-21 Brooklyn, NY Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Avenue) w/ Juan Waters (of The Beets). TIX HERE.

[Fishkins]

I can't wait for the Brooklyn show, and my friends from Madison will be in Beloit!

[jefflewis]

Hey, here I am in Beloit Wisconsin right now! Our set starts in a little while, there's an opening act or two. If your friends from Madison are here (and if you happen to miraculously get this message in time) tell them to come say hi!

[Zacxfolk]

See you tonight in Grand Rapids, we're driving out from Detroit.

[jefflewis]

Thanks JB!
It was an interesting tour, considering it was the first time we attempted to do an entire USA tour in nothing but all-ages venues. This was harder than it should be! It's always awful when there's people outside a show who can't get in because they are under 21, especially if they have traveled some distance to get there. We wanted to make sure this didn't have to ever happen, but the trade off was that we played in some weirder areas than usual... like, no Chicago show but a show in nearby Evanston instead... and we tried playing the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn for the first time, because they were able to do the show as an all-ages thing. Interestingly this experiment resulted in less people, I wonder if the weird locations were more off-putting than the age limit! Like, we had about 200 people at the Knitting Factory show, instead of the 300 people that were at our NYC show the year before where the show was 21+ only but it was in Manhattan, in a more central location.

Also, ironically, we didn't even see a number of our under-21 fans who have been perpetually frustrated at not being able to get into our US shows in the past! (Maybe we waited too long to book an all all-ages tour and they've outgrown us!)

Anyway, a lot of under-21 folks DID come to some of these shows, and it was really fun to have such a mixed-age crowd, a good number of older folks and younger folks all at a show together! Being the USA, we were usually playing to about 30-100 people on the coasts and about 3-30 people in the middle of the country, New York City is the only area in America where we can expect to bring in more than 200 people. Still, no matter how out-of-the-way we were playing, or how weird the place was and how strange and empty the town seemed, there was not one single show where we didn't have at least one or two fans who knew our songs! And after all, that is pretty cool.

Thanks to everybody who came to any of the USA shows!

No plans for the winter... I guess I'll see what might come up.