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Thursday, January 31, 2008

EELS Announce American Tour Dates

EELS Announce American Tour Dates

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of the just released new CD+DVD collections, the best of MEET THE EELS: ESSENTIAL EELS VOL. 1, 1996 - 2006 (CD+DVD) and the rarities USELESS TRINKETS: B-SIDES, SOUNDTRACKS, RARITIES AND UNRELEASED 1996-2006 (2CD+DVD) on Geffen/UMe, EELS announce a US tour starting March 28 in Philadelphia.

The CD+DVD collections celebrate the first ten years of the critically acclaimed and ever-changing entity (1996-2006), while the tour finds them performing at some unusual venues (the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia and the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC, among them). EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett aka E was recently the subject of a highly acclaimed BBC documentary film about himself and his father and has also written a book, "THINGS THE GRANDCHILDREN SHOULD KNOW," already a bestseller in England, it will be published this fall in the U.S. A recent EELS show at St. James Church in London found The Who's Pete Townshend on stage reading from the book. EELS are planning to purchase one-second of Super Bowl television air time to advertise the new rarities collections, USELESS TRINKETS.

The latest confirmed EELS American Tour Dates:

March
28 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church
29 Washington, DC Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
31 Boston, MA Somerville Theatre

April
1 New York, NY Highline Ballroom
2 New York, NY Highline Ballroom
4 Toronto, ONT The Mod
5 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre
6 Chicago, IL Park West
7 Minneapolis, MN Pantages Theatre
9 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
11 Seattle, WA Showbox Theatre
13 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
14 San Francisco, CA Palace Of Fine Arts
16 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theater


More info: http://www.eelstheband.com/

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Source: Universal Music Enterprises

CONTACT: Judy Miller of Motormouth, +1-323-662-3865, wigbox@pacbell.net,
for Universal Music Enterprises; or Label, Todd Nakamine of Universal,
+1-310-865-7797, Todd.nakamine@umusic.com, or Radio, Elliot Kendall of
Universal, +1-310-865-9852, Elliot.kendal@umusic.com, both of Universal Music
Enterprises

Web site:

http://www.eelstheband.com/


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