Californian stoner metal legends Sleep have been on their grind since the release of their comeback record, The Sciences, last year. Now, the trio will be doing a tour in Canada, with direct support from Virginia-based psychedelic rockers Pontiak.
Tickets will go on sale this Friday, May 24th, at 10am PDT. The dates are as follows:
September:
01 — Victoria — Capital Ballroom
02 — Vancouver — Commodore Ballroom
03 — Nelson — Spiritbar
04 — Calgary — The Palace Theatre
05 — Edmonton — TBD
07 — Saskatoon — Coors Event Centre
08 — Winnipeg — The Garrick
11 — Guelph — Guelph Concert Theatre
12 — Ottawa — Algonquin Commons Theatre
13 — Montreal — MTelus
14 — Quebec City — Imperial Bell
16 — Halifax — Marquee Ballroom
This tour will be following their upcoming trek in the United States with Seattle-based stoner crew Big Business, which is coming up pretty quickly. Dates for that tour are listed below:
May 2019
27 — Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl
28 — Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
29 — Boulder, CO – Boulder Theatre
31 — Omaha, NE – Slowdown
June 2019
01 — Minneapolis, MN – – First Avenue
02 — Maquoketa, IA – Codfish Hollow Barn
03 — Madison, WI – The Sylvee
05 — Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
06 — Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
07 — Albany, NY ‑Skyloft
08 — Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
09 — Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theatre
11 — Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre
12 — Knoxville, TN – The Mill & Mine
13 — Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
14 — Birmingham, AL – Saturn
15 — Athens, GA – 40 Watt
17 — Tampa, FL – The Ritz
18 — Miami, FL – The Ground
When guitarist and Sleep mastermind Matt Pike sat down to talk with Kerrang!, he spoke about the inception of the band, saying, “For the first Sleep record [1991’s Volume One] we had another guitar player called Justin Marler, but he became a monk on Kodiak Island for the Russian Orthodox Church or something like that. From then on we were a three-piece, and it worked out better for me because I think it made me up my game as a guitar player. It put more of the responsibility and the challenge on my shoulders.”
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