The Deep Dark Woods reveal a whole lot more European tourdates
14-12-2017The Deep Dark Woods are touring Europe in 2018. Already listed were a handful Benelux and last Wednesday their appearance at the annual festival Down By The River was revealed. Today we're happy to add a whole lot more dates across Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia, UK and Ireland:
06-APR: Sint Niklaas (BE) @ Casino
07-APR: Apeldoorn (NL) @ Gigant
08-APR: Venlo (NL) @ Down By The River
09-APR: Luxembourg (LUX) @ Konrad Cafe
10-APR: Cologne (DE) @ YUCA
11-APR: Schaffhausen (CH) @ Tab Tap
12-APR: Nürnberg (DE) @ Künstlerhaus K4
13-APR: Utrecht (NL) @ TivoliVredenburg
15-APR: Groningen (NL) @ Oosterpoort
16-APR: Berlin (DE) @ Musik & Frieden
17-APR: Hamburg (DE) @ Nochtspeicher
18-APR: Aarhus (DK) @ Atlas
19-APR: Malmö (SWE) @ Folk å Rock
20-APR: Falkenberg (SWE) @ Tryckhallen
21-APR: Goteborg (SWE) @ Pustervik
24-APR: Bergen (NO) @ Ole Bull
25-APR: Odda (NO) @ Blues Club
26-APR: Oslo (NO) @ John Dee
27-APR: Kristianstad (SWE) @ Kulturvarteret
28-APR: Tranås (SWE) @ Plan B
29-APR: Stockholm (SWE) @ Kägelbanan
01-MAY: Nottingham (UK) @ The Maze
02-MAY: Oxford (UK) @ The Bullingdon
03-MAY: London (UK) @ Bush Hall
05-MAY: Kilkenny (IRL) @ Kilkenny Roots Festival
06-MAY: Kilkenny (IRL) @ Kilkenny Roots Festival
07-MAY: Belfast (N-IRE) @ Cathedral Quarter Arts Fest
08-MAY: Glasgow (UK) @ Broadcast
10-MAY: Newcastle (UK) @ The Cluny 2
11-MAY: York (UK) @ The Crescent
12-MAY: Bedford (UK) @ Ent Shed
13-MAY: Brighton (UK) @ The Prince Albert
15-MAY: Bristol (UK) @ The Tunnels
16-MAY: Winchester (UK) @ The Railway Inn
The Deep Dark Woods’ newest album was borne in a fever – scarlet fever, to be medically specific. A disease of the last century is a fitting backdrop for songs that dig bare handed into the loam to unearth the corpses of old English folk and country blues. Yarrow is Deep Dark Woods reimagined by leadman Ryan Boldt, and accompanied by the same band that crafted prairie psychedelics and a "loose grungy folk sound" (Paste) for flannelites. For nearly ten years they developed an international following with particular success in the Americana realm, nominated alongside Alabama Shakes and Dawes for Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2012 Americana Music Awards.
Floods and plagues, ghosts and slaughter: woe to those who populate the songs of Yarrow. A gentle summer breeze swings the gallows ropes, flowers bloom callously on lovers' graves. These anthems are definitely not from Eden.
Now wrest out of the woods, their outlook is decidedly more macabre, tapping into a rich vein of gothic surrealism that aligns with some of the great murder balladeers of our time. With Appalachian soil under his fingernails, Boldt writes in a deep tradition of bleak and forlorn storytelling, drawing lines from Ireland to Tennessee, the Oxford Girl to Folsom Prison.
In Yarrow, there's a juicy unease to frontman Boldt's presence, as if a new door has opened to let loose the weirdness. In place of the freewheelin' jammy vibe there's a darker, stranger tenor that sides with those modern mystics whose music exists in the creepier, freakier corners of existence.