Tesseract and Intronaut makes sense- of course they'd be touring, they both had albums come out in 2013. Why wouldn't they tour? But Cloudkicker, famed one-man project by Ben Sharp that has never played a live show (I think) since its' inception in the mid-2000s? What the hell?! Well The PRP got a hold of both Sharp and Intronaut to talk about the tour a little. Sharp said:
“This just happened to be a time when Intronaut was free and, incredibly, I was able to get the entire month of April off from work. We have been in touch since 2010 and they had told me a few times that we could make this happen, but it wasn’t until last fall that I decided to give it an honest effort. Having the professionalism and technical proficiency of a band like Intronaut was the piece of the puzzle that finally encouraged me to pursue this since they are making it so easy for me. I know that when we show up for the first night of the tour everything will be locked in and we can just focus on having a good time."
Intronaut tagged on to Sharp's comments, saying:
“When we first met Ben a few years back and discovered the Cloudkicker album Beacons, we unanimously fell in love with it and have since bugged him to let us be his band. Now it is finally happening. Intronaut is absolutely over the moon about this once in a lifetime opportunity for Cloudkicker fans to hear his stuff live. Sweetening the deal even further is the fact that we get to do the tour with our favorite British chaps in TesseracT. This tour is going to kick ass!”
If you get the chance to get out to this, definitely go. Who knows when the next time you'll ever get to see Cloudkicker live will be, if ever again. Especially backed by amazingly talented guys like Intronaut! Dates are as follows:
03/29 Springfield, VA – Empire (Tesseract only)
03/30 Charlotte, NC – Tremont Music Hall (Tesseract only)
04/01 Atlanta, GA – The Drunken Unicorn
04/02 Jacksonville, FL – Brewster’s Rock Bar
04/03 Orlando, FL – Backbooth
04/05 Dallas, TX – Club Dada
04/06 Austin, TX – Dirty Dog Bar
04/07 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s Downstairs
04/10 Tempe, AZ – Club Red
04/11 Los Angeles, CA – Roxy
04/13 San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
04/14 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre
04/15 Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
04/16 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre
04/18 Edmonton, AB – Pawn Shop
04/19 Calgary, AB – Republik
04/22 Billings, MT – The Railyard
04/23 Denver, CO – The Marquis Theatre
04/25 Minneapolis, MN – Skyway Theatre
04/26 Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom
04/28 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
04/29 Philadelphia, PA – The Barbary
04/30 New York, NY – The Gramercy
