Tom Waits plays the ‘Glitter and Doom’ tour through Europe this summer

Following ‘Glitter and Doom’s 13 U.S. shows that open in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday 17th June, America’s legendary songwriter and performer Tom Waits brings his ‘Glitter and Doom’ tour to Europe this summer, playing shows that include the Grammy-award winning artist’s first-ever concerts in Spain and the Czech Republic. The European schedule opens in Spain’s San Sebastian on Saturday 12th July and finishes in Dublin on Saturday 1st August.

"I have a stellar band: Larry Taylor (upright bass), Patrick Warren (keyboards), Omar Torrez (guitars), Vincent Henry (woodwinds) and Casey Waits (drums and percussion)", says Waits. "They play with racecar precision and they are all true conjurers. I’m doing songs with them I’ve never attempted outside the studio. They are all multi-instrumentalists and they polka like real men.”

The European tour will also be subject to new anti-scalper plans, thus attempting to ensure that every fan will pay only face value (plus normal service and handling fees) for the tickets. They will be limited to two per person with the purchaser’s name – and name of their plus one – printed on the ticket. Ticket-holders will need photo ID corresponding to the names on the tickets to gain access to the venues. Ticket-holders will need photo ID corresponding to the names on the tickets to gain access to the venues.

European tour dates are as follows:

DATE - CITY - VENUE - ON-SALE INFO

July 12 - SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN – Auditorium Kursaal - Ticket Hotline 902 10 12 12. International enquiries +34 933 262 946. Tickets also available online from Www.telentrada.com. Tickets on sale Monday 2nd June at 9.00AM.

July 14 & 15 - BARCELONA, SPAIN – Auditorium Forum - Ticket Hotline 902 10 12 12. International enquiries +34 933 262 946. Tickets also available online from www.telentrada.com. Tickets on sale Monday 2nd June at 9.00AM.

July 17, 18 & 19 – MILAN, ITALY – Teatro Degli Arcimboldi - Ticket Hotline – valid only in Italy – 892101. International enquiries +39 0584 46477. Tickets also available online from www.ticketone.it. Tickets on internet presale on Friday 23rd May at 9.00AM and all other outlets from Monday 26th May at 9.00AM.

July 21 & 22 – PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC – KCP - Tickets available on www.ticketpro.cz with ticket@ticketpro.cz handling enquiries from English and German speaking customers. Tickets on sale on Friday 30th May at 9.00AM.

July 24 & 25 – PARIS, FRANCE – Grand Rex - Ticket Hotline is 0890 39 01 00 – accessed from France only – with +33 (0)1 46 91 57 67 for international enquiries. Tickets on sale as an internet presale from http://www.gdp.fr/index2.php?idDirBill=1311 on Monday 26th May at 9.00AM, with all other outlets from Wednesday 28th May at 9.00AM.

July 27 & 28 – EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND – Playhouse - Ticket Hotline on +44 870 606 3424 and online from www.ticketmaster.co.uk. On sale at 9.00AM on Tuesday 27th May.

July 30, 31 and August 1 – DUBLIN, IRELAND – The Ratcellar, Phoenix Park - Ticket Hotline is 0818 719 300 – accessed from Ireland only – with 0870 243 4455 for the UK and +353 1 4 569 569 for international enquiries. Tickets also available online from www.ticketmaster.ie. On sale at 9.00AM on Tuesday 27th May.

‘Glitter and Doom’ follows on from Waits’ ecstatically received ‘Orphans’ tour of the United States in 2006, a series of shows that sold out in minutes.

The new tour takes in most of the summer’s hottest regions in America, ending in Atlanta on Saturday 5^th July. Says Waits: “We’re going to the Deep South where they still love a man who wears red pants and they make him feel welcome.”

Anti-Records recently launched www.tomwaits.com with the release of the press conference clip for the ‘Glitter and Doom’ tour. The site will have tour information, news, photos and updates with a detailed explanation of the ticket policy. Waits’ press conference is currently the number one featured video on youtube.com, with over 560,000 viewings.

In other Waits’ news, unrelated to the tour, he has finished filming ‘The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus’, a romantic fantasy adventure starring Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Vern Troyer and Lily Cole, with renowned director Terry Gilliam (‘Time Bandits’, ‘Brazil’, ‘Twelve Monkeys’, ‘Brothers Grimm’).

Check out www.tomwaits.comfor all the latest info.

Tom Waits photo attached. Photo credit: Michael O’Brien.

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