{"id":5408,"date":"2023-03-02T23:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T06:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2023-03-20T09:34:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:34:24","slug":"last-minute-euro-tour-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/2023\/03\/02\/last-minute-euro-tour-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"LAST MINUTE EURO TOUR UPDATES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We kick off the long-overdue Europe tour in less than a week. After 3 years of postponements and false starts and cancellations\u2026 we are finally making this thing happen, come hell or high-water. The rock and roll gods have spoken! … and it turns out they reeeaaally wanted us to cancel the whole thing and go back to school to get an IT degree. But we\u2019ve chosen to ignore the gods and get on the half-sinking ship across the Atlantic with nothing but our dreams and 19,000 metric tonnes of gear. We may not all come back, but we refuse to know when to give up!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On that note, for good or for bad, here are some updates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW SHOW IN M\u00dcNSTER!!!<\/strong>
March 16th at Sputnik Halle. We know it\u2019s pretty short notice, but help us out now\u2026 let\u2019s try to get the entirety of Germany to that show! We know it\u2019s only a 250 capacity room, but maybe we can squeeze everybody in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LONDON DATE CHANGE<\/strong>
Many of you know this by now, but we wanted to remind everyone that the London show has changed both dates AND VENUES<\/strong> (now O2 Academy Islington on the 18th), but existing tickets are still honored. We know this throws a massive wrench into a lot of people\u2019s plans (ours included). Unfortunately, with the bizarre (and still unexplained) evaporation of both the Sci-Fi Weekender show and the Swansea show, these changes were the only way we could still make the tour happen. We\u2019ve had A LOT of reasons to jump off this ship and swim home, but we know that when we finally get there, it\u2019s gonna be such a glorious moment that it will have all been worth the struggle. Like, when that ship with the T-Rex finally made it to San Diego at the end of Jurassic Park 2. Everyone celebrated and nothing bad happened\u2026 right?<\/a> It\u2019s been a long time since we\u2019ve seen that movie. Maybe we can watch it on the trip over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of monsterous lizard birds, we\u2019ve got some more unfortunate news… Makeup And Vanity Set<\/a> won\u2019t be on the ship heading over to Europe with us after all. We tried begging. We tried twisting his arm. We even tried chloroform, but the ski mask kept him from breathing enough in to knock him out (he’s always one step ahead of us…).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We get it though. All signs have been pointing us towards cancelling this thing and it’s for sure financially irresponsible of US to carry on with two cancelled shows. MAVS is a pretty fancy dude\u2026 but he was ready to sleep in the gutters and only eat raw cabbage and rocks like we\u2019re going to, however he\u2019s got some other obligations that make it an unfortunate no-go and we support him in that. And also\u2026 he just had his teeth redone, so eating cabbage and rocks would do him no good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT ON TO SOME GOOD NEWS\u2026.<\/strong>
Most VIP Tickets are finally available!! \u2014 we\u2019re still waiting on Amsterdam and M\u00fcnster, but we\u2019ll try to let you know as soon as those are live. Keep an eye on our socials (facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>) and Tour Page<\/a>, because we might announce them first on those.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

>VIP TICKET INFORMATION<<\/strong>
If you\u2019re wanting some VIP ticket\u2019s you have to purchase them separately from the main show ticket. If you already have regular show tickets, all you have to do it purchase the VIP ticket and you\u2019re good to go. But if you haven\u2019t gotten tickets to the show yet, you should be able to buy show tickets and VIP tickets at the same time. And if for some interesting reason you ONLY want to come to the VIP pre-show session\u2026 because you love seeing grown men and women dolled up in silver facepaint but hate rock and roll, I suppose that\u2019s a thing too?? We won\u2019t judge! And I can confidently say that this tour is happening<\/strong>, so if you\u2019ve been on the fence about getting tickets\u2026. get off the fence and get to getting. We need all the support you can muster over there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VIP TICKET includes:<\/strong>
\u2022 Early entry for the concert (one hour before Doors Open)
\u2022 Early access to merchandise
\u2022 Meet and Greet with the band
\u2022 Signing session
\u2022 VIP group photo with the band
\u2022 Tour Poster
\u2022 Exclusive VIP Tour Laminate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**ATTENTION** VIP Ticket does NOT include concert! Ticket for the show needs to be purchased additionally.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grab some VIP tickets below so we can do some chit-chat with you and sign some stuff before the show. Also, help spread the word, because I know not everybody in the world is on this mailing list (even though they should be).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of which, let\u2019s go ahead and activate the European Street Team while we’re at it to help get the word out about these shows so we can actually come back a 3rd time! It’s easy, all you have to do is tell other Europeans about the shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MARCH<\/strong>
10th \u2013 Paris \u2013\u00a0Les \u00c9toiles<\/a>\u00a0(VIP Available)
11th \u2013 Amsterdam \u2013\u00a0Melkweg<\/a>\u00a0(VIP Ticket Upgrade Here<\/a>)
12th -Berlin \u2013\u00a0Frannz Club<\/a>\u00a0(VIP Available)
16th \u2013 M\u00fcnster \u2013\u00a0Sputnikhalle<\/a>\u00a0NEW SHOW ADDED! (still waiting on VIP)
18th \u2013 London \u2013\u00a0O2 Academy Islington<\/a>\u00a0(VIP Available)
19th \u2013 Oxford \u2013\u00a002 Academy<\/a>\u00a0(VIP Available)
21st \u2013 Wolverhampton \u2013\u00a0KK\u2019s Steel Mil<\/a>l<\/a>\u00a0(VIP Available)
22nd \u2013 Glasgow \u2013\u00a0Stereo<\/a>\u00a0(VIP Upgrade Available Here<\/a>)
23rd \u2013 Bradford \u2013\u00a0Nightrain<\/a>\u00a0(VIP Available)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOME OTHER GOOD NEWS\u2026 CHICAGO WAS AMAZING<\/strong>
A huge thanks everyone at Reggie\u2019s<\/a> rock club, Cybertronic Spree, and to everyone who came out! And it was absolutely wonderful finally sharing the stage with Cybertronic Spree<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t seen them live yet, go find them\u2026 they\u2019re hard to miss. They\u2019ll be the giant robots playing rock and roll (as opposed to The Protomen\u2026 a comparatively short band of robots playing rock and roll).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had an incredible time playing with them, and we can\u2019t wait to do it again soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, I just thought of something while looking at this European stuff. Is everyone aware that we have a European store with some pretty rad exclusive merch<\/a> (including Act I records and the old Euro Tour shirt that\u2019s one of the best shirts we\u2019ve ever done)?! \u2026 because it sure seems like nobody knows about it. We have all kinds of stuff over there and it ships worldwide. We\u2019re about to stop in and grab what\u2019s left of that merch before these shows, so get it while it\u2019s still there and help us clear out the closet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll see all you Europeans next week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Commander<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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