Mr. Bungle announces first East Coast tour since 2000
Mr. Bungle, who venture out on their first post-pandemic tour dates this May as part of the Ipecac Recordings’ Geek Show, have added an eastern swing to their slate of 2023 outings, with new performances added for several cities including New York, Boston, and Toronto.
The dates, which mark the band’s first shows on the East Coast (with the exception of New York City) in 23 years, find Mr. Bungle once again featuring their The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo line-up (Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, Trey Spruance, Scott Ian, and Dave Lombardo).
Tickets for the newly announced performances are on-sale now. Joining Mr. Bungle for the September outings is Battles, reuniting Patton and Dunn with their Tomahawk bandmate, John Stanier.
Ipecac Geek Show Tour Dates featuring Mr. Bungle, Melvins, Spotlights:
May 10: Pomona, CA Fox Theater
May 11: Los Angeles, CA Palladium
May 13: Las Vegas, NV Sick New World Festival
May 14: Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
May 16: Denver, CO Mission Ballroom
May 17: Salt Lake City, UT Union Event Center
May 19: Seattle, WA Showbox
May 20: Seattle, WA Showbox
May 21: Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
May 23: Oakland, CA Fox Theater
May 24: Oakland, CA Fox Theater
w/special guests, Battles:
September 5: Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
September 6: Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
September 8: New York, NY Terminal 5
September 11: Boston, MA Roadrunner
September 12: Montreal, QC MTelus
September 13: Toronto, ON History
September 15: Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit
About Mr. Bungle:
Mr. Bungle was formed in an impoverished lumber and fishing town by a trio of curious, volatile teenagers. Trey Spruance, Mike Patton, and Trevor Dunn beget the amorphous “band” in 1985 up in Humboldt County, Calif., sifting through a variety of members until 1988 when drummer Danny Heifetz and saxophonist Bär McKinnon joined the group. In 1989, Mr. Bungle signed to Warner Bros. Records. No one really knows how this happened, and it remains a complete mystery that even the algorithms of the internet can’t decode. Up until 2000, they released three albums: Mr. Bungle in 1991, Disco Volante in 1995, and California in 1999, toured a good portion of the Western hemisphere, and avoided any sort of critical acclaim. Some argue that the band subsequently broke up, but there is also no proof of this. What is true is that they took 20 years off from performing under said moniker while they pursued various other musics that, in contrast, paid the rent. In 2020, a different iteration of Mr. Bungle emerged, pairing the original trio of Dunn, Patton, and Spruance with Anthrax’s Scott Ian and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo for a proper release of the Eureka-bred band’s unreleased demo, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny.
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