Interpol add more shows to their ‘Antics’ 20th anniversary US tour

Interpol have added more shows to their 2024 ‘Antics’ 20th-anniversary tour.

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In June, the band initially announced three US dates, which followed the announcement of several upcoming shows across the UK and Europe to mark the anniversary of the hit 2004 album.

Now, they’ve added four dates in Boston, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia in December, telling fans: “Friends in The Big House will receive their exclusive pre-sale access code on Wednesday August 21st, at 10am ET.”

General on-sale starts on Friday August 23rd, at 10am ET here.

Interpol’s US tour dates are:

NOVEMBER
19 – The Salt Shed, Chicago, IL
20 – The Moody Amphitheater, Austin, TX
23 – Kia Forum, Los Angeles, CA 

DECEMBER:

1 – Roadrunner, Boston
3 – Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn
4 – Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn
6 – Franklin Music Hall, Philadelphia

Speaking to NME in March, guitarist Daniel Kessler looked back on the ‘Antics’ tour and how Interpol came together as a live band. “We just really settled into it,” he said. “There are a lot of cliches about the music industry, and you do have your whole life to make your first record.

“Everything was leading up to us releasing ‘Bright Lights’, but I never even envisioned putting out one record and couldn’t get beyond that. You’re going and going and you get the opportunity to be in the moment and own it a bit more. You’re enjoying being on stage and connecting with each other. By ‘Antics’, we had more ownership on stage.”

He also touched on revisiting the album in full, saying it was both “strange” and “nerve-wracking” when they first did it in France last year.

“It might not seem that much of a stretch for a band to play an album in sequence, but it really is,” he said. ” It’s sequenced for the record in a very intentional way, but performing it as such means going from first gear to fourth gear and vice versa. When we did those two shows, it really took some activating and getting used to – regardless of how many times you’ve played those songs before.

“Nervous energy makes you be very present in the moment, and you want to stay faithful to what people are expecting to hear.”

Elsewhere, the band recently had to apologise for inadvertently copying another artist’s work for the poster for the forthcoming tour, after it was pointed out that it resembled a painting by New York-based mural and studio artist Tony Sjöman.