Pulp is touring this fall in a few North American cities. The new single - Spike Island is really good.

09/04 — Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
09/06 — Washington, DC @ Anthem
09/09 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia
09/11 — Queens, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
09/13 — Boston, MA @ The Stage at Suffolk Downs
09/16 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
09/17 — Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple
09/20 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
09/22 — Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
09/25 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl *
09/26 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl *

* = w/ LCD Soundsystem

As it happens, we have tickets to two Seattle shows (The Waterboys and Sparks) during the week of the Red Rocks show. Otherwise, I'd seriously consider making the trip home.

Got my Pulp tickets to The Tabernacle this morning. And since we HAD to see Pulp, We'd be crazy not to miss Sparks the next night. I'd previously not been able to talk myself into going. Got those tickets too. My wife found rooms at the Hilton Home2Suites 900 feet from the venue in prime tourist Downtown Atlanta for $129/night??! This is one aspect of the economy in chaos that I'd not anticipated. I expected lodging adjacent to World of Coca-Cola/Georgia Aquarium to be closer to $300/night. None of the show tickets were onerously expensive, thankfully. So I'm seeing the best bands in the US/UK back-to-back.