US & CA Los Camp! Shows Announced

✈️ Tickets go on sale Wednesday, for LC!'s Summer 2024 trip

We’re back, baby! Next June we’ll be doing our favourite thing: flying to North America for a quick run of rock concerts! This includes our first visit to the West Coast for more than 5 years.

Whether you’ll be seeing us for the first time, or the 4th time (and some of you even more than that, I’m sure…) we promise one of the best live shows you’ve ever seen, playing songs from our full back catalogue…plus new stuff.

As a subscriber to this very mailing list you get first dibs on tickets when fan pre-sale begins at 10am on Wednesday 15th November.

15 June 2024 - Warsaw, Brooklyn NY (TIX)

16 June 2024 - Paradise Rock Club, Boston MA (TIX)

17 June 2024 - Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA (TIX)

18 June 2024 - Black Cat, Washington DC (TIX)

20 June 2024 - The Opera House, Toronto ON (TIX)

21 June 2024 - The Roxy, Cleveland OH (TIX)

22 June 2024 - Thalia Hall, Chicago IL (TIX)

24 June 2024 - The Crocodile, Seattle WA (TIX)

25 June 2024 - Aladdin Theater, Portland OR (TIX)

27 June 2024 - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco CA (TIX)

28 June 2024 - The Regent Theater, Los Angeles CA (TIX)

Fan pre-sale begins at 10am local time on Wednesday 15 November. Some of the above links may not work before Wednesday. General sale then takes place from 10am on Friday 17 November.

🚨Fan pre-sale can be accessed with the password: kingofbands🚨

The finer details…

• 10% of tickets are available at a reduced price, for purchase by unemployed/low income fans. If you are unable to attend a concert without the discount, these tickets are intended for you. These tickets are just $10, and can be purchased in the same way as a regularly priced ticket, no questions asked.

• All venues are accessible, with reserved seating/standing for those who require it. Full information on accessibility can be found at each venue’s website.

• All of these shows are ALL AGES.

• Los Campesinos! concerts are a safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, race, sexuality or religion. All-gender restrooms will be in operation.

• Special guests To Be Announced

We know these only cover a very small portion of the United States and (even less of) Canada, and we’re sorry for that. We love playing shows, but we have jobs, children and responsibilities that limit the amount of time we can spend doing that. We have packed as many gigs as possible into a two-week span, in locations that we know we can play to the most amount of people. If you’re based elsewhere and making an out of town or cross-country trip to one of these concerts, we’re very grateful and promise it’ll be worth your while.

If you have any Qs about the shows, or our shows in general, please feel free to ask in the comments.

We’ll drop another email on Wednesday, to remind you that tickets have gone on sale!

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You’ve doubtless all seen this before, but the Renato Dall’Ara video features a load of footage from the last time we were on the West Coast, and I think you can tell how much fun we had (that tour also marked the beginning of my dependency on lip balm, which I have applied approximately every 20 minutes of my waking life since. Shout out ‘Soothing Touch’).

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Here follows a Question from the mailbag. Click the button below to ask yours…

Spike: “Are there any songs that you've never played live before that you are willing to play in the future?”

Gareth responds…

A list of formally released, studio record LC! originals that have, to date, not been played live:

Between an Erupting Earth and an Exploding Sky; It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song for the Other Kurt); The End of the Asterisk; Hate for the Island; Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. Il; A Doe to A Deer; The Trains Don’t Run; A Portrait of the Trequartista as a Young Man; The Time Before the Last Time; Selling Rope (Swan Dive to Estuary); For Whom the Belly Tolls; Got Stendhal’s; A Litany/Heart Swells; Hung Empty, Dumb Luck; Tiptoe Through The True Bits; To The Boneyard; Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. I

The reasons for having not played a song live can vary. It certainly doesn't have to mean we don’t like the song, it’s far more likely to be due to a technical or musical detail. A reliance on a particular sound or instrument that is difficult to pull off live (the horns in TTTTB, or songs predominantly based around an acoustic guitar) or a lack of flexibility with regards to where the song could work in a setlist (Selling Rope’s got to be a closer, right? But then we’ve got loads of great options for closers) or, you know, they’re Xmas songs. It’s a shame to see so many songs unplayed off our most recent album (Sick Scenes), but then again, when you’re 6 albums in it’s a struggle (a good one!) to find space for everything you want to play and that you guys want to hear.

Never say never, of course, there are some of my all-time faves in that list… (Last Time, Hung Empty, Tiptoe).

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We’ll be back on Wednesday with a reminder of those tickets! And I’ll tell you what, because we feel bad about not everyone being able to attend these shows, and wanting to make these letters worthwhile for everyone, we’ll send you all a code for 15% off clothing on our merch store.

Cheers!