Fyfe Dangerfield's Guide To Guillemots' Forthcoming UK Tour

To say the recent tour with REM meant a lot to Birmingham born Fyfe Dangerfield, would be a patent understatement. All one has to do is browse the Guillemots website to see self posted youtube clips of REM’s discography and exclamations of ‘something that makes me very happy – we just played four gigs with this band!’

“It meant a lot”, Dangerfield told Gigwise. “They’re a great band who’ve done so much evolving over the years. A great example of how to stay relevant as a band.”

Guillemots seem to take relevance and originality as high priority when facing progression in their work. The upcoming Fishbone for a Drink tour holds further experiments of crowd tickling spectacle that have found their way out of the band’s bag of live performance tricks. 

The November tour will consist of audiovisual sets comprised by Guillemots and film events company, Future Shorts. An idea conceived whilst playing the festival scene in August sees the band playing alongside short films, such as a personal re-scoring of David Lynch’s classic, Eraserhead.

“I really enjoyed latitude and playing along with Eraserhead. It’s the thing that started off this collaboration with playing along live to video. It’ll mainly be instrumental with a few bits of random noises from the vocals.”

If this was not enough unbearable excitement for Guillemots fans, then the gig locations will surely create restless exhilaration about the prospect of the upcoming shows. Caves in Cornwall, a theatre in Bath and a converted cinema in Edinburgh are to name a few venues that have replaced the standard academy appearances that artists can get all too fed up with, as Dangerfield explained.

“Yeah, we wanted to get to some different places. We were a bit sick of playing the places we play, like academies. Just wanted to play somewhere more unusual.

“We haven’t been to all of them, but we’ve got a good idea of the kid of places we want to play. We heard the Caves in Cornwall are a good place to play. We might end up doing an acoustic gig there, as I’m not sure a full show would work.”

The question would be then, would that not bother the Cornish fans expecting an extravagant live show? “That’s the whole point of the tour. The music changes that way. We’ll get a chance to play more classical stuff. We love improvising.”

And with the audiovisual set consisting of spontaneous jamming, the improvising should be in full swing at every show. So much so that it seems to have replaced the slot of the support bands.

“It’ll be 25 minutes each night I reckon, we’re trying to use this as a support act. Instead of traditional support, we’re just going to do that”, Dangerfield said.

Tickets for the tour are available through Gigwise here. Alternatively, you can call our ticket hotline on 0871 230 1098 for more details.

Guillemots tour dates are:

Birmingham Custard Factory - 7
Bath Pavilion Theatre - 8
York The Duchess -  9
Inverness Eden Court – 11
Middlesborough Empire - 12
Edinburgh Picture House - 13
Lancaster Library - 15
Sheffield Plug - 16
Bradford St Georges Hall - 17 
Liskeard Carnglaze Caverns - 19
Falmouth Princess Pavilion - 20
Portsmouth Pyramids Centre - 21
Brighton St Georges - 22
Derby Assembly Rooms - 24
Cambridge Junction - 25
London Barbican – 26