The Heavy Ready US Headline Tour, Release New EP October 28th

THE HEAVY ripped and roared their way through Europe in the Summer of ’08 – including appearances at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, and the UK Latitude Festival in Norfolk. Big Bad Wolf howls also rang clear across Germany, Poland, and Belgium, rattling bones wherever the stage was hot and the moon was lit.

It was a phenomenal summer for these renegades of Noid, England, but the band is now ready to bring the pain State-side, as an encore to their eye-opening US run this past Spring. Come October/November, the band will stomp through a 5-city US Tour wielding a battle-axe, a road map, and the hardest-hitting live set you’ll have the opportunity to see this year.

US TOUR DATES
October 30 || +1, People Food, Mr. Roboto Presents Halloween Party @ The Echo || Los Angeles (w/ The Gray Kid, Pop Levi) **EP release show for The Gray Kid’s ‘Free Music!!!'
October 31 || Mr. Roboto Presents Halloween Party @ 103 Harriet || San Francisco
November 1 || Adrenaline Presents @ The Casbah || San Diego (w/ Kenan Bell)
November 3 || The World Café || Philadelphia
November 5 || Mercury Lounge || New York, NY

In addition, the band will release an EP, entitled ‘SET ME FREE,’ to be released through iTunes and other digital retailers this October 28th!!!

Also very pleased to report that the iTunes exclusive bonus track from the ‘Set Me Free’ EP (a Johnny Cash cover of ‘Doin’ My Time’) will be part of an upcoming tribute to the late music legend, a compilation entitled ‘JOHNNY CASH REMIXED,’ due out on October 14th via Compadre Records. “My father made his stead by defying the expected and accepted way of things,” says John Carter Cash, son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash and Executive Producer of the Academy Award©-winning film Walk the Line. “He would have loved this remix record.” A documentary following the making of this album is also in production, featuring interviews from select remixers, filmed in their home studios, including Snoop Dogg with his version of ‘I Walk The Line’ at the Cash Recording Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Finally, the band has collaborated on a track for The Crystal Method’s new record set for release in 2009, and remixed a Louis Armstrong song, ‘Zat You, Santa Claus?’, for a Christmas album to be released this year (September 23rd in the US, September 30th in Europe) by Verve Records.

Click here to see The Heavy perform ‘That Kind Of Man’ on their network television debut on ‘Last Call with Carson Daly.’ You can also hear ‘That Kind of Man’ on the soundtrack for the forthcoming FIFA 2009 video game, and, of course, on The Heavy’s debut album ‘GREAT VENGEANCE AND FURIOUS FIRE’ (out now on Counter/+1 Records).