USSA featuring everyone’s hero Paul Barker will be opening for Chemlab in November/December here in the states. Straight from Jared Louche:
"After all of the false starts, unrequited hand jobs at knifepoint and other tragic-comic interludes with bands that couldn’t decide whether or not they still love the sweat of the stage and the bruise of the spine, we’re hitting the road.
There will be more details and ticket give-aways and other deals of that sort to be released exclusively here (because you’ve been so fucking patient), but I’m just touching base with everyone to let them know that we’re unpacking the jets, firing the engines and preparing to rocket launch the old beast back into your frontal lobe once more.
I’m pleased to announce that the travelling detonation show will look like this:
Main support comes from the bizarre and sinister USSA. USSA is the new band from ex-Ministry and Jesus Lizard/Tomahawks Paul Barker and Duane Dennison www.myspace.com/ussaband as well as http://ussa.fuzz.com. You may not have heard of them yet, but you will, and if you think you know what you’re getting into, take the shades off and prep for a bruising eye-black.
The other band on the bill is the junkyard freak-show that is SKELETON KEY www.myspace.com/skeletonkey and also www.skeletonkey.org. The Barker Of The Dupes is one of the strangest and most intellectually challenging bands I’ve ever had the pleasure of performing with and I’m looking forward to watching them torching the crowd every night.
There will be cool local bands, old Machine Rock cohorts and a few others travelling with us throughout the shows to lend an extra jolt to it all.
The dates are not concrete yet, but roughly run from the 14th of November until the 14th of December. I’ll get the actual routing posted here as soon as I know what it is, but roughly, we’ll be starting on the East Coast and heading into the Midwest, out West and along down the Coast. We swing back through NM, TX and the like, through NOLA and into FL and back up the East Coast.
We’re going to need as much help from you as possible. For us to be able to come back as a serious touring band again we need to make this tour rock, and much of that is in your digistream hands. We’ll have tour posters available here as well as other street team materials and I’m counting on you to spread the viral stain as only the bit-heads in the Blackout Tribe can.
There will be a lot of updates and details and other shit coming this way from now on. So, come and hang out, spread the word, remind the creatures that we’re still not dead and help get the band back on the road. Then come celebrate the riot with us!
About fucking time too!"
Here’s the thread: [url “http://www.hydrogenbar.com/...splay;num=1185958176”]http://www.hydrogenbar.com/...splay;num=1185958176
Should be cool. I saw Chemlab last year in S.F. Babyland opened. Fun times.