Win SHRED YR FACE tickets. Click here to enter.
Sign up to the only NEWSLETTER worth reading. Click here.

Deerhunter Become Four

Tagged with:
Deerhunter Alternative

Written By:

Gavin Riley

31st August 2007
At 20:00 GMT

2 comment(s)

Support new music: choose from our favourite new albums this month.

Deerhunter have become a foursome after the departure of their main guitarist Colin Mee. They played last night's gig in Washington without him, and throughout the day, Mee has been explaining his reasons.

He told Pitchfork: "What happened was that initially I told them that I couldn't play a couple of shows that we had booked next weekend in Portland and Seattle because it was too much of a strain on my schedule.

"It wasn't necessarily my intention to quit. Brad basically reacted by saying that if I did that I was giving up my position in the band, which is pretty much what I expected. I told them that I thought the last few shows we did were a little subpar.... I just felt that we had booked too much stuff to support one album just because of the money that was being offered us and whatever networking opportunities went along with that, which I was never involved in.

"This sense of being overwhelmed was exacerbated by the fact that I felt we were receiving (and creating) too much press that had nothing to do with any new music being created. I don't want to be overexposed. I don't want the world to know what our excrement looks like or what we are selling on eBay or whether we got robbed. I think that it devalues the music and it is just a way to maintain attention when the music should just speak for itself."

Poop journals aside, the show must go on for the four-piece, starting with tonight's free gig at the Seaport Music Festival in New York. And as you'll see from the dates below they're heading over the Atlantic in October.

Deerhunter European Tour Dates:

25 Oct 2007 - Graz, Austria - Dom im Berg (Elevate Festival)
26 Oct 2007 - DÃ¼dingen, Switzerland - Bad Bonn
27 Oct 2007 - St. Gallen, Switzerland - Palace
28 Oct 2007 - Geneva, Switzerland - L'Usine
30 Oct 2007 - Brussels, Belgium - Recyclart
31 Oct 2007 - Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
01 Nov 2007 - CastellÃ³n de la Plana, Spain - Auditori / Palau de Congressos (Tanned Tin Festival)
02 Nov 2007 - London, England - The Forum (ATP Presents Release the Bats)
03 Nov 2007 - Leeds, England - The Faversham (Nasty Fest VIII)
04 Nov 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland - ABC2
05 Nov 2007 - Dublin, Ireland - The Village
06 Nov 2007 - Nottingham, England - Liars Club
07 Nov 2007 - Manchester, England - Cafe Saki