Franz Nicolay touring with David Dondero

Music News | Jan 28th, 2011

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Hot off the heels of an east coast tour with Stornoway and a European tour alongside Jack Terricloth (World/Inferno Friendship Society) and Dave Hause (the Loved Ones), FRANZ NICOLAY has announced tour plans in support of his recently released, Luck & Courage. NICOLAY will head out on a 7 week US tour with David Dondero that will include SXSW dates. NPR’s All Songs Considered named Dondero one of their “Ten Greatest Living Songwriters”, alongside Bob Dylan and Tom Waits; and Conor Oberst calls him his biggest influence. Plus he was This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb’s drummer for a couple years. “I think this is an interesting pairing of songwriters with one foot in indie-rock and one foot in punk rock” says NICOLAY of the pairing.

In Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut coined the term “a nation of two” to describe that stage of love in which a couple seems to be creating their own self-contained world, with its own language and culture. In FRANZ NICOLAY’S haunted and redemptive new album Luck & Courage (out on CD/Digital from Team Science Records and vinyl from Sabot Productions), he expands the idea and writes the history of the rise and fall of one such country, one inhabited by the titular characters Felix & Adelita – in Latin and Spanish, luck & courage.

After the release of Luck & Courage, FRANZ released a free collection of remixes/re-imaginations of tracks from his new album done by members of the NYC collective, Anti-Social Music, called Anti-Social Music vs. Franz Nicolay: Unlucky & Discouraged. The EP is available for free via NICOLAY’S Bandcamp page or you can download a single off the EP, Dischord Records’ Beauty Pill (featuring Anti-Social Music’s Jean Cook) re-imaging “This Is Not A Pipe” here

FRANZ NICOLAY was a member of Brooklyn rockers The Hold Steady and punk orchestra World/Inferno Friendship Society. He founded the new-music collective Anti-Social Music (which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2010); and is co-leader of the Balkan-jazz quartet Guignol, whose Fight Dirty came out in 2009. Also in 2009, he released his solo debut Major General (Fistolo/Decor) and vinyl-only EP St. Sebastian of the Short Stage (Team Science); and in early 2010 the short-story collection Complicated Gardening Techniques (Julius Singer Press). He made Luck & Courage in Brooklyn in two weeks in spring 2010, with producer Jim Keller (Willie Nelson, Franz Ferdinand). After completing the new album, he spent the past summer as a touring member of agit-punk band Against Me!.

FRANZ NICOLAY On Tour!!!

Feb 25 – Brooklyn NY – Union Pool (w/ Poor But Sexy)*
Feb 26 – Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie*
Feb 27 – Washington, DC – Black Cat (backstage)*
Feb 28 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern*
Mar 1 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506*
Mar 2 – Charlotte, NC – The Milestone*
Mar 3 – Columbia SC – New Brookland Tavern*
Mar 4 – Athens, GA – Caledonia*
Mar 5 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl*
Mar 6 – Macon, GA – The Rookery*
Mar 7 – Orlando, FL – Will’s Pub*
Mar 8 – Ybor City, FL – New World Brewery*
Mar 9 – Sluggo’s, Pensacola, FL*
Mar 10 – Birmingham, AL – Bottle Tree*
Mar 11 – Jackson, MS – Ole Tavern*
Mar 12 – Shreveport, LA – Mediastar Lounge*
Mar 13 – Denton, TX – Conferette Festival*
Mar 15 – Houston, TX – Cactus Records Instore*
Mar 16 – Houston, TX – The Mink*
Mar 17-18 – Austin, TX – SXSW*
Mar 20 – Tucson, AZ – Club Congress*
Mar 21 – Tempe, AZ – Sail Inn*
Mar 22 – San Diego, CA – Tin Can Alehouse (w/ O’Death)*
Mar 23 – Los Angeles, CA Echo (w/ O’Death)*
Mar 24 – Santa Barbara, CA – Muddy Waters*
Mar 25 – Merced, CA – Black Box Theater*
Mar 26 – Sacramento, CA – Beatnik Studios*
Mar 27 – San Francisco, CA – Hemlock Tavern*
Mar 30 – Eugene, OR – Sam Bond’s*
Mar 31 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios*
Apr 1 – Kennewick, WA -Red Room*
Apr 2 – Tacoma, WA – O’Malley’s*
Apr 3 – Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern*
Apr 5 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge*
Apr 6 – Denver, CO – Hi-Dive*
Apr 7 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown*
Apr 8 – Normal, IL – Firehouse*
Apr 9 – St. Louis, MO – The Firebird*
Apr 10 – Chicago, IL – Schuba’s*
Apr 12 – Rochester, NY – Bug Jar*
Apr 13 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Smiling Moose*
Apr 14 – Harrisburg, PA – Abbey Bar*
Apr 15 – New York City, NY – Cakeshop*

*w/ David Dondero
More Dates TBA

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