Tennis:
05-26 Las Vegas, NV – Swan Dive
05-17 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT – Metro Music Corridor
05-18 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT – Kilby Block Get together
05-21 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
05-23 Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed
05-24 Indianapolis, IN – Hello-Fi Annex
05-25 Cleveland, OH – Globe Iron
05-27 Toronto, Ontario – The Live performance Corridor
05-30 Boston, MA – Roadrunner
05-31 Philadelphia, PA- Franklin Music Corridor
06-01 New York, NY – The Rooftop at Pier 17
06-03 Washington, D.C. – The Anthem
06-05 Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
06-06 Atlanta, GA – The Japanese
06-07 Nashville TN – Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
06-09 Dallas, TX – The Manufacturing unit in Deep Ellum
06-10 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Corridor
06-11 Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
08-18 San Diego, CA – Humphreys Live shows by the Bay
08-20 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
08-22 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
08-23 Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
08-24 Santa Fe, NM – The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Co.
08-26 Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
08-28 Boise, ID – Treefort Music Corridor
08-29 Portland, OR – McMenamins Grand Lodge
08-30 Vancouver, British Columbia – Malkin Bowl
09-02 Sacramento, CA – Channel 24
09-04 Saratoga, CA – The Mountain Vineyard
Alaina Moore:
On a cross-country drive on the finish of tour, our van and trailer blew 4 tires in fast succession. That specific stretch of freeway was a tire graveyard. I counted the shredded stays of 12 tires from the place we sat on the facet of the highway, swapping out our final spare. Our unhealthy luck was closely contrasted by the nice night time we’d simply had in Houston. The highs and lows of touring are unnatural, disorienting. On the shoulder of I-40, I started writing the lyrics to “12 Blown Tires.” It’s a constellation of recollections from the highway, and of our marriage, two endeavors which might be utterly, hopelessly entangled.
Once we recorded “12 Blown Tires” a number of months later, I had the sense of distilling the previous 15 years into 4 minutes of music. It felt like the top of one thing, although I wasn’t certain what. Patrick and I spent most of our twenties and all of our thirties targeted on Tennis. It has been essentially the most joyous, bewildering, difficult, and humbling expertise. After ending Face Down within the Backyard, it turned clear that we had mentioned the whole lot we needed to say and achieved the whole lot we needed to realize with our band. This will likely be our final studio album, at the least on this configuration as Tennis. We’re able to pursue different inventive tasks and to create space in our lives for brand new issues. In that gentle, the upcoming tour feels extra poignant, like a concluding thought. These two children from Denver who solely ever dreamed of taking part in a number of home reveals are very fulfilled. Maybe we’ll see you on the highway. As all the time, thanks.
