Having recently announced that PIG will be performing in Chicago, Los Angeles and Austin in mid-September as part of the Cold Waves XIV festival, existential industrial glam maverick Raymond Watts and his band have now revealed a fall tour of North American tour to promote ‘Hurt People Hurt’, their just released new album on Metropolis Records.
The Hurt People Tour will commence in Lawrence, Kansas on 27th August and conclude in Detroit, Michigan on 18th October, comprising of 44 shows in all that include the Cold Waves dates. An initial 40 date itinerary is listed HERE, with further shows to be added.
‘Hurt People Hurt’ has been receiving some of the best reviews of Watts’ career globally, while in the US he was recently described as “the missing link between David Bowie, Gary Numan and Trent Reznor” by Bearded Gentlemen Music.
Much of the album is co-written by Watts with his chief songwriting partner in swine Jim Davies (ex-Prodigy and Pitchshifter), with Tinnitist stating that their work is “danceable and deadly serious in turn. PIG climbs peaks and mines troughs, while musical genres slide and collide like tectonic plates.”
Two singles were issued ahead of the album. The first, ‘Tosca’s Kiss’ VIDEO, was inspired by Watts’ well-known love of opera, while Watts has previously stated that ‘Sex & Suicide’ LYRIC VIDEO is a song of pain, pleasure, obsession and possession for the departed, the broken-hearted and the newly started.
Ahead of the North American tour, PIG will play two previously announced sold out shows in Tokyo on 25th and 26th June, with UK dates to follow in December.
HURT PEOPLE HURT
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“Danceable and deadly serious, it climbs peaks and mines troughs, while musical genres slide and collide like tectonic plates and Watts’ words spring from the well of gallows humour”
TINNITIST
“Brings a theatrical quirkiness to the industrial crunch. There is attention to detail in the songwriting, while the vocals are emoted with conviction, showing experience has its perks”
TREBLEZINE
“Feels like an intentional evolution and the work of a great storyteller. Solid from beginning to end, it also gets better with each listen”
XS ROCK
“An essential, highly danceable masterpiece for long-time disciples and modern alternative fans alike”
BEARDED GENTLEMEN MUSIC
“Some of PIG’s strongest material to date. Hellishly hamonious hymnals uplifted by the strength of Watts’ vocal charisma”
ROCK AND ROLL FABLES
“Once again proves that industrial music can still be dangerous, theatrical, intelligent, and emotionally volatile all at once”
EVOL RADIO
Raymond Watts has an impressive resumé. Aside from fourteen albums as PIG, he has worked with stalwarts of the global industrial scene such as Einstürzende Neubauten, Foetus and Psychic TV, in Japan with the bands Schwein and Schaft, and was a founder member of electronic rock band KMFDM with a key writing and vocal role on their best known songs of the ‘80s/’90s.
Watts has also written music for film, TV, advertising and fashion shows in Europe, Japan and America. His work in fashion includes ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ (Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York) and ‘Plato’s Atlantis’ for the late fashion icon Alexander McQueen, which was reprised as ‘Savage Beauty’ (MMOA and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London).
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