White Stripes to Tour Eastern Europe

Jack plays guitar, Meg plays the drums. It doesn't get much simpler than that. The candy-striped girl/boy band the White Stripes are hitting the road together again, this time promoting their fifth record: Get Behind Me Satan, which is out on V2/Third Man June 7.

The 13-song album was written entirely on piano, acoustic guitar, and marimba and recorded in the duo's hometown at White's Third Man Studios. All tracks were written, produced, and mixed by Mr. White, who has described the record as an exploration of "characters and the ideal truth." Except less like a ninth-grade English class than that sounds, right, Jack? Jack?

Anyway, the tracks:

01 Blue Orchid
02 The Nurse
03 My Doorbell
04 Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)
05 Little Ghost
06 The Denial Twist
07 White Moon
08 Instinct Blues
09 Passive Manipulation
10 Take, Take, Take
11 As Ugly As I Seem
12 Red Rain
13 I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)

They begin their travels this month in Central and South America, to be followed by a performance at the Music Midtown Festival in Atlanta and at the Glastonbury Festival in England-- and then that's it for confirmed Anglophone dates at the moment, though they may be back in the U.S. later in the summer. Yes, that's what we said last time, too. Dates:

05-24 Santiago, Chile - Victor Jara Arena
05-26 Misiones, Argentina - La Reserva Puerto Iguazu
05-28 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Luna Park
06-01 Manaus, Brazil - Teatro Amazones (Opera House)
06-03 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - Clara Hall
06-04 Sao Paulo, Brazil - Credit Card Hall
06-10 Atlanta, GA - Music Midtown Festival
06-24 Pilton, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-26 Moscow, Russia - Mekanika
06-27 St. Petersburg, Russia - Manezh Kadetskogo Korpusa
06-29 Tallinn, Estonia - Club Hollywood
06-30 Riga, Latvia - Dream Factory
07-01 Kaliningrad, Russia - Vagonka
07-03 Prague, Czech Republic - Archa
07-05 Zagreb, Croatia - Stara Klaonica
07-06 Ljubljana, Slovenia - Krizanke
07-09 Gdynia, Poland - Heineken Open'er Festival
07-10 Novi Sad, Serbia - Exit Festival
07-12 Thessaloniki, Greece - Theatro Gis
07-13 Athens, Greece - Olympic Beach Volleyball Stadium

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Posted by Megan Martin on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:00am