The Dandy Warhols kick off 25th Anniversary Tour in May
April 11, 2019
They’re in Denver at the Gothic 5/14
25 years? How does the time pass so quickly? Frontman for The Dandy Warhols Courtney Taylor-Taylor agrees. “The weirdest thing about it being our 25th anniversary is it doesn’t feel like 25 years. Feels like about six. Or five,” he remarked recently.
After two compilation albums, nine studio albums, and 27 singles, the band’s got a lot to choose from, and a fan base that’s going to love to hear it. And their live shows have always been memorable – from random nudity early on to an onstage duet with David Bowie in 2002.
“The weirdest thing about it being our 25th anniversary is it doesn’t feel like 25 years. Feels like about six. Or five….”
Courtney Taylor-Taylor
“Holy cow, 25 years?!” says keyboardist Zia McCabe “I guess it has to have been that long since it feels like I’ve been doing this my entire life. Oh right, I have been doing this my entire adult life, ha!”
The plan is to continue sharing that energy and celebrate that history with those fans. Kicking off in Atlanta on May 3, the band has booked thirteen dates across the US and Canada through the end of that month. They’ll be appearing in Denver at the Gothic Theatre on May 14 – and tickets are available now.
“Oh man,” McCabe says, wondering about how they’re going to build a set list around such a raucous and full history, “how are we going to fit something from each album into our set? Don’t worry we’ll figure it out and it will be legendary. Get ready for a massive concussion of rock and roll that’s been a quarter of a century in the making.”
The Dandy Warhols release their 10th
And they’ll have even more to add to the list with the release of their tenth studio album Why You So Crazy, released earlier this year. From their tour press release:
Packing in references as far flung as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Don MacLean’s Chevy, and the church of Bowie’s ‘Modern Love,’ these 12 songs reflect the band’s surrealist visions of an alternate reality. Offering an escape from a culture driven to the brink, The Dandy Warhols are progressing into the next chapter of their self-described “25 year act of sonic rebellion.”
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“We’ve always been driven to create art with emotional clarity,” concludes Taylor-Taylor. “That’s what the world needs more than ever right now. I’ve never felt so strongly that people are losing their minds, and it’s more of them than ever before. Local politics, international politics, news programs, sitcoms, and our president all feel like the heat got turned up. It doesn’t feel like a natural progression of insanity, it just happened. Most people are behaving in a manner that can only be described as batshit crazy.”
