Cibo Matto
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Hotel Valentine
Virtual Label
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Cibo Matto are back with Hotel Valentine, their first new album since 1999.
The Japanese duo (Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori) basically broke up in 2002 and remained inactive until they reformed in 2011 to do a benefit concert for the for victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. They were happy to be a band again and decided to do a brief 2011 “Yeah, Basically Cibo Matto” tour date (skipping Minneapolis in favor of Chicago). With the upcoming release of Hotel Valentine, the duo will be doing a larger spring tour and will likely end up at SXSW this year (their tour dates suspiciously ends right before SXSW). The smart money is that they will be in Austin around March 10-15.
The Japanese duo (Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori) basically broke up in 2002 and remained inactive until they reformed in 2011 to do a benefit concert for the for victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. They were happy to be a band again and decided to do a brief 2011 “Yeah, Basically Cibo Matto” tour date (skipping Minneapolis in favor of Chicago). With the upcoming release of Hotel Valentine, the duo will be doing a larger spring tour and will likely end up at SXSW this year (their tour dates suspiciously ends right before SXSW). The smart money is that they will be in Austin around March 10-15.
| Cibo Matto at First Avenue, Minneapolis (07/25/1999)
ticket stub
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Anyway, as you know I am a fan and was fortunately enough to have caught them on their 1999 tour supporting Stereo ★ Type A. I still own the concert T-Shirt, so I may dig it out of storage to wear it for their show on March 4th, 2014, at the Turf Club in St Paul.
Since Sean Lennon is no longer in the band, I don’t expect to see the same sort of audience I remember seeing at their 1999 show. I’m also not expecting them to do many songs from their first two albums (which were all about food), except, safe to say, for the stand-out hits like “Do You Know Your Chicken” and “Sugar Water”.
Cibo Matto’s upcoming 2014 tour:
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02/07/14 New Haven, CT The Space
02/08/14 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair 02/09/14 Kingston, NY BSP Lounge 02/11/14 Philadelphia, PA Boot & Saddle 02/14/14 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge 02/15/14 Washington, DC Black Cat 02/16/14 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle 02/17/14 Atlanta, GA The EARL 02/18/14 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks 02/19/14 Austin, TX The Mohawk 02/21/14 Phoenix, AZ The Crescent Ballroom |
02/22/14 San Diego, CA The Casbah
02/23/14 Santa Ana, CA Constellation Room 02/24/14 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre 02/26/14 San Francisco, CA Slim’s 02/28/14 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom 03/01/14 Seattle, WA The Crocodile 03/04/14 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club 03/05/14 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews 03/06/14 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall 03/07/14 Pittsburgh, PA Club Cafe 03/08/14 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Bowl |
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