Barenaked Ladies have announced a major 20 date cross-Canada tour in support of their upcoming album SILVERBALL available June 2. The tour includes special guest Alan Doyle, former lead singer of Canadian rock band Great Big Sea, and kicks off October 19 in Prince George, BC and wraps up November 21 in Ottawa, ON (full details below). Every ticket purchased for Canadian show dates include a digital download of Silverball delivered on June 2. Tickets will be onsale May 1st at 10:00am local time. Visit barenakedladies.com for more information on ticket bundles and VIP packages.
Fans who pre-order Silverball now at iTunes will get the tracks “Say What You Want” & “Matter Of Time” instantly. An additional 3 tracks will be available with iTunes pre-orders in the weeks leading up to the June 2 release. Silverball is also available to pre-order at Amazon. Spotify users can also stream “Say What You Want” & “Matter Of Time” from Silverball beginning today.
Fans can also stream the band’s first single “Say What You Want” which has premiered via Entertainmentweekly.com. “Say What You Want” is a celebration of letting go,” Ed Robertson says. “It’s about feeling confident, and realizing that you can’t control what other people do or say, you can only control how you react to it.” The band recently filmed a video for the track with director Matt Hullum of Rooster Teeth, the Austin-based production company that worked with the band to create videos for “Odds Are” and “Did I Say That Out Loud”.
Following the release of Silverball and before their Canadian tour, Barenaked Ladies will be heading out on the road in the U.S. for their 2015 Last Summer on Earth Tour. Joined by special guests Violent Femmes and Colin Hay of Men At Work, the Ladies will be performing in 30+ amphitheaters across the U.S. kicking off on June 5 in Columbus, OH. For a full list of U.S. tour dates, visit: http://barenakedladies.com/events
2015 CANADIAN SILVERBALL TOUR
October 19 – Prince George, BC – CN Centre
October 21 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
October 22 – Victoria, BC – Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
October 24 – Kamloops, BC – Interior Savings Centre
October 25 – Kelowna, BC – Prospera Place
October 26 – Cranbrook, BC – Western Financial Place
October 28 – Grande Prairie, AB– Revolution Arena
October 30 – Medicine Hat, AB– Medicine Hat Regional Event Centre
November 1 – Calgary, AB – Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
November 2 – Red Deer, AB – Enmax Centrium at Westerner Park
November 3 – Edmonton, AB – Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
November 4 – Saskatoon, SK – TCU Place
November 6 – Winnipeg, MB – MTS Centre
November 12 – London, ON – RBC Theatre Budweiser Gardens
November 13 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
November 16 – Hamilton, ON – Hamilton Place Theatre
November 17 – Oshawa, ON – General Motors Centre
November 18 – Kitchener, ON – Centre In The Square
November 20 – Peterborough, ON – Peterborough Memorial Centre (ONSALE 1:00PM local)
November 21 – Ottawa, ON – Southam Hall at National Arts Centre
