Wandering Lights

The tour album -- chronicling our adventures throughout July across about a dozen countries in Europe/Russia -- is here...we've got a couple hundred photos compiled on Facebook: behold! (And, hey, if you've got anything to add, let us know.)

Tour was amazing. We spent the last few weeks traveling across various parts of Europe/Russia, meeting awesome people, seeing incredible places and playing alongside some great bands. It's been a wild trip. A huge thanks goes to Felix for putting it all together (and also to Meli for putting up with us and putting us up in Berlin), Sasha Slynko for getting us to Russia for the first time ever (+ a bunch of other shows in the Ukraine — including Faine Misto — the Baltics, etc), David and Hendrik for accompanying us on the road (at various points), all the bands we played with (The New Division, Such Gold + Katrin Flipper, Pears, No Fun, The Uprising, Earl Grey, Elm Tree Circle, and on and on), everybody who lent Joe a kick drum pedal (after he destroyed his on show #3), the fine folks at the little keyboard repair shop in Berlin for getting us off the ground on day one when we were desperately hunting for a keyboard fuse (and Zeki Min for helping us hunt all over town until we found it), Maria in Samara for helping to make our first day in Russia awesome, Ildar and Timur for giving us the tour of Kazan, the guy at the Ford dealership in Simbach who sold us a new tire after hours when we were otherwise out of luck, that tired customs agent who finally let us into Russia (on our third day of trying), the friendly people at that little print shop in Hlukhiv, Ukraine (who probably got sick of seeing us between our daily failed border crossing attempts), Dina and Julia for showing us around St Petersburg, Kristofs for a blast of a night out in Riga, and to so many other people that aren’t listed here but were all a part of making our time overseas awesome. Thank you.

We’ll see you all again asap. love love love, The Static Age

We’re halfway through the tour and are having a blast. We’re going to assemble a tour scrapbook at the end of the run, but you can also follow along on Instagram (we’ve been pretty good -- maybe about a B+ -- about using #thestaticage hashtag, if you’re curious).

Anyway, that said, there have been a few changes to the shows in the Baltics over the next few days. Here’s what’s new:

TONIGHT (July 20th): We’re still in Talinn, Estonia, but the club has been changed to Kultuuriklubi Kelm

TOMORROW (July 21st): Still in Riga, same club (Nabaklab) -- no changes!

Friday, July 22nd: Now happening in Palanga, Lithuania at I Love Palanga (showtime is 8pm)

Saturday, July 23rd: Now in Alytus, Lithuania at Fenix (showtime is 9:30)

The first handful of shows of the tour (in Budapest and then both nights in the Ukraine) have been a blast. Tour was off to a great start.

However, we've now spent the last two days trying to get through the Russian border to resume our travels, but have been denied twice now (after day-long waits on both rounds). Unfortunately, this means we missed the show last night, will miss the show tonight and will (probably) miss the show tomorrow as well. Huge apologies to everyone who planned to come out -- we were very excited to be there, but have been held up by forces beyond our control. If things go well tomorrow, we're going to do our best to resume things in Samara or Ulyanovsk before Kazan, provided we can make up the distance.

We kick things off in three days. Everybody’s either already on the ground in Europe or on a plane en route now. Here’s the final routing:

July 08, 2016: Budapest, Hungary @ A38 w/ The New Division July 09, 2016: Bristrita, Romania @ Love Her Festival w/ The New Division July 10, 2016: Ternopil, Ukraine @ Faine Misto Festival w/ The New Division July 11, 2016: Bila Tserkva, Ukraine @ Art-Club Kul’t July 12, 2016: Kursk, Russia @ Nashe Mesto July 13, 2016: Tambov, Russia @ Art Cafe DK July 14, 2016: Saransk, Russia @ Harat’s Pub July 15, 2016: Samara, Russia @ Harat’s Pub July 16, 2016: Ulyanovsk, Russia @ Harat’s Pub July 17, 2016: Kazan, Russia @ GG Pub July 18, 2016: Moscow, Russia @ Jao Da July 19, 2016: St. Petersburg, Russia @ MOD July 20, 2016: Tallinn, Estonia @ Ulase 12 July 21, 2016: Riga, Latvia @ Nabaklab July 22, 2016: Alytus, Lithuania @ Fenix July 23, 2016: Wydminy, Poland @ Art-Klub KINO July 24, 2016: Rokycany, Czech Republic @ Fluff Fest July 25, 2016: Berlin, Germany @ Bi Nuu w/ Such Gold, The Uprising, No Fun July 26, 2016: Mönchengladbach, Germany @ Das Blaue Haus w/ Such Gold, The Uprising, No Fun July 27, 2016: Neunkirchen, Germany @ Rock Your Holidays Fest w/ Such Gold, The Uprising, No Fun July 28, 2016: Stuttgart, Germany @ JuHa West w/ Such Gold, The Uprising, No Fun, Hell & Back July 29, 2016: Simbach am Inn, Germany @ Stray Fest w/ Such Gold, The Uprising, No Fun, Uberyou

We’re super excited to be headed over to Daytrotter on Wednesday for an afternoon session. We’ll be recording live versions of a couple new songs (as well as a couple old ones, and maybe a cover for kicks). More news on that soon.

We’re looking forward to seeing a whole bunch of you soon.

WE CAN’T HARDLY WAIT.

Here’s another leg of our upcoming swing through various parts of Europe, Summer 2016!

We’ll be up to a bunch of things in 2016. Here’s the first hint of what’s to come.

Eastern Europe with The New Division July 08 - Budapest, Hungary at A38 July 09 - Bristrita, Romania at the Love Her Festival July 10 - Ternopil, Ukraine at Faine Misto Festival

2015 was a bit crazy, but we survived. Come close the year out with us on December 20th at 1st Ward / Chop Shop in Chicago (Wicker Park).

We’re jumping on a show at Livewire here in Chicago next week with Future Thieves (Nashville), Throwaway and Courtney. It’s Thursday October 8th, doors are at 6pm, and the rest of the details can be found on the Facebook event right over here. 

The show last week was a blast. Many thanks to all who made it so. And we hope you all enjoyed being experimented on with the new songs.

And now we’re back to the recording front. Andrew’s working on guitars at Highwires Chicago, and Pete’s preparing to start in on keyboards shortly. There will be a brief recording break in late June so Andrew can head over to Germany for a string of shows with the UK’s The Lion and the Wolf (find out more here), but everything will be full steam ahead come early July.

One year of late nights, practice space demos, BPM debates, and a mix of Tecate/various Polish beers later, the new album is written. The drums are already done. The bass is in the works. The guitars and keys start later this month. We’re on our way to a new full-length, and we can’t wait to share it with all of you.

In the meantime, we wanted to play some shows. Here’s the first of those. We’ll be at Fizz in Chicago on May 29th with Beta Play and The Tragic Thrills (both from California). It’s a Friday night, and it’s an early show (Doors at 6pm -- all ages and all that) -- come on down. Tickets are available right over here.