LOS ANGELES (Morningwood Official Website) - Why do so many people end up liberated from their clothes at Morningwood shows? The band probes this question as they headline a summer "Tour Off Your Clothes Tour," a reference to their strip-tastic anthem, "Take Off Your Clothes."
Fans won't want to miss what the New York Post described as "Somewhere between a high school pep rally and a lap dance…one of the most visually entertaining, musically seductive concerts in memory." The tour kicks off June 13th in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with support from Rock Kills Kid, among others. A full list of confirmed dates is below.
While on the East Coast, the band will perform on "The Late Show with David Letterman" on June 21st. Then Morningwood will wrap up the tour on the West Coast in mid-July, but before jetting off to the U.K. and Japan they'll open for the Go-Go's at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre on July 14th.
Morningwood's self-titled debut album entered Billboard's "Heatseekers" chart at No 1 earlier this year and has been getting a rise out of critics ever since. "[Lead singer Chantal] Claret channels Mae West and Joan Jett with equal zeal," said Rolling Stone. "Ingenious in a why-did-no-one-else-think-of-that? way," said Entertainment Weekly, giving it an "A" while Alternative Press posited "If there were a Suicide Girls strip club, where tattooed vixens shook their stuff for extra cash…Morningwood would be blasting in the champagne room."
Lead single "Nth Degree" has proved a favorite at Modern Rock radio, the band has appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Last Call with Carson Daly," DIRECTV's "CD USA" and MTV2's "Subterranean," and Claret appears as a commentator on VH1's "40 Greatest Metal Songs" special, airing throughout the spring and summer.
Morningwood 2006 "Tour Off Your Clothes Tour"
6/13 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room
6/14 Orlando, FL The Social *
6/15 Tampa, FL State Theatre *
6/16 Atlanta, GA Roxy *
6/17 N. Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues *
6/19 Winston-Salem, NC Ziggy's *
6/20 Baltimore, MD Recher Theatre *
6/21 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw *
6/22 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts *
6/24 Northhampton, MA Pearl Street *
6/25 Boston, MA Axis *
6/27 Chicago, IL House of Blues
6/29 Cleveland, OH House of Blues *
6/30 Cincinnati, OH Jillian's *
7/02 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue *
7/07 San Francisco, CA The Independent
7/08 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst
7/09 Orangeville, CA The Boardwalk
7/11 Anaheim, CA Chain Reaction
7/13 San Diego, CA Belly Up
7/14 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre (opening for the Go-Go's)
* with Rock Kills Kid
