Johnny Marr Announces Fall Tour + Shares New Video for WALK INTO THE SEA

The Smiths' guitar legend and NME's "God-Like Genius" award-winner, Johnny Marr, has announced a Fall US tour in support of his forthcoming album Call The Comet. Following a quick and fully sold-out jaunt to Toronto, NYC, LA and San Francisco this summer, Marr and his band will return post-album release for an extensive coast-to-coast run that includes Nashville, Portland, Austin, Boston and Philly, as well as Mexico City and two dates in Canada. Tickets are on-sale at JohnnyMarr.com and full list of dates is below.

Watch WALK INTO THE SEA Here!

Johnny Marr has also confirmed an upcoming performance on Conan, to air on TBS,Monday, June 4, and released a new video for "Walk Into The Sea." Stereogum premiered the video, saying "'Walk Into The Sea' ebbs and flows like a post-rock song, with Marr trying on a surprisingly Protomartyr-esque spoken-word delivery in the midsection before building to an achingly beautiful climax."

Recorded with his band in Manchester at Marr's Crazy Face Studios in Manchester, Call The Comet follows the critically acclaimed UK Top 10 albums The Messenger (2013) and

Playland (2014). Says Marr: "Call The Comet is my own magic realism. It's set in the not-too-distant future and is mostly concerned with the idea of an alternative society. The characters in the songs are searching for a new idealism, although there are some personal songs in there too. It's something that people like me can relate to."

Praise for Johnny Marr's live show:

"His gruffer, but by no means unrefined, vocals lend fresh flavour to the Smiths tracks he drops intermittently into the set; his fired-up "Bigmouth", stabbed through with trademark arpeggios, seems designed to remind us that the Smiths were as much gobby post-punk rabble as they were foppish ego cult, while "The Headmaster Ritual" could be Daytripper-era Beatles with switchblades up their blazer sleeves." (4 Stars)

- The Guardian

"Marr (was) showcasing his great new album which somehow manages to combine those perfect Marr-lodies with a whiff of early eighties post-punk melancholy but also nods to that patented chiming guitar sound that he trademarked in the Smiths. The new album is his finest solo offering yet and the gig was a celebration of this and his own back pages...a perfect example of how seamlessly it all fits together into a continuous career whole in a sweatshod celebration of a decades long quest of guitar pop brilliance."

- Louder Than War

"...the songs themselves sounded urgent and engaged. Guitar solos

emerged with power and clarity within songs."

- The Financial Times

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TOUR

May 31 | New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre

June 2 | San Francisco, CA @ August Hall

June 4 | "CONAN" 11pm/10c on TBS

June 5 | Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom

June 6 | Los Angeles, CA @Teragram Ballroom

September 15 | Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom

September 16 | Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest

September 17 | Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater

September 20 | Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theater

September 21 | Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

September 22 | Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater

September 24 | Santa Cruz, CA @The Catalyst

September 25 | Berkeley, CA @ UC Theater

September 26 | San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

September 28 | Sonoma, CA @ Old Redwood Barn

September 30 | Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee

October 2 | Mexico City, Mexico @ Plaza Condesa

October 4 | Los Angeles, CA @ The Theater At Ace Hotel

October 8 | San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger

October 9 | Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater

October 10 | Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room & Garage

October 11 | Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall

October 13 | Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club

October 15 | New York, NY @ Irving Plaza

October 16 | Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw

October 17 | Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore

October 19 | Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix

October 20 | Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom

October 21 | Boston, MA @ The Paradise

October 22 | Philadelphia, PA @ TLA

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