Mr. Bungle continue to circle the globe, adding headlining dates and festival performances to cities and countries the band has not visited since the turn of the millennium, with the newest 2024 performances including their highly-anticipated return to the UK, and their first ever performance at Download Festival.
Dubbed as the Raging Wrath of the UK tour – in homage to their post hiatus album, “The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo” released in October 2020.
Tickets for London & Manchester are on sale Friday 2nd Feb at 10am GMT. Download Festival tickets are on sale now. Support will come from Ipecac label-mates Spotlights – their first time visiting the UK in support of their recent album, “Alchemy For The Dead”.
UK Live Shows 2024:
June 12 – London, UK O2 Forum Kentish Town
June 13 – Manchester, UK O2 Ritz
June 14 – Derby, UK Download Festival
Ticketing links are available here.
Japan Live Shows 2024:
February 28 Tokyo, JP Toyosu Pit
February 29 Osaka, JP Namba Hatch
Australian & New Zealand Tour Dates 2024:
March 3 Auckland, NZ Auckland Town Hall +
March 6 Melbourne, AUS Festival Hall +
March 7 Adelaide, AUS Hindley Street Music Hall +
March 9 Sydney, AUS Hordern Pavilion +
March 10 Brisbane, AUS Fortitude Music Hall +
March 12 Perth, AUS Metro City +
+ (w/ Melvins)
US Tour Dates 2024:
May 6 Dallas, TX House of Blues #
May 7 Austin, TX Emo’s #
May 8 Houston, TX House of Blues #
May 10 Daytona Beach, FL Welcome to Rockville
May 11 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle #
May 12 Raleigh, NC The Ritz #
May 14 Nashville, TN Brooklyn Bowl #
May 15 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room #
May 17 Columbus, OH Sonic Temple
May 18 Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Metal Fest
May 19 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue #
# (w/ Otto Von Schirach)
European Tour Dates 2024:
June 16 Zurich, CH X-Tra %
June 17 Milan, IT Magnolia %
June 19 Berlin, DE Huxley’s %
June 20 Copenhagen, DK Copenhell
June 23 Luxembourg Atelier %
June 24 Tilburg, NL 013 Poppodium %
June 27 Oslo, NO Tons of Rock
June 29 Clisson, FR Hellfest
% (w/ Oxbow & Spotlights)
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 music 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”.
Weblinks:
mrbungle.com
facebook.com/ou818
