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Tom Waits Announces Tour Dates :: We Don't Get To Go

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Lovable and at times frightening eccentric genius mad man Tom Waits announced tour dates Friday via a YouTube press conference. The "Glitter and Doom" tour (God bless you, Tom Waits, for the best tour name ever!) kicks off in Phoenix, AZ 06/18, and then passes through a whole mess of towns that, uh, we don't care so much to go to. Hopefully Mr. Waits will bring his sideshow in the vicinity of the West Coast, but, in the interim, we can't lie and say that we aren't intrigued at the idea of seeing Tom Waits in Tulsa, OK.

But hey! At least we get Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds! Not a shabby consolation prize at all.

GLITTER AND DOOM 2008

06-17 Phoenix, AZ - Orpheum
06-18 Phoenix, AZ - Orpheum
06-20 El Paso, TX - Plaza Theatre
06-22 Houston, TX - Jones Hall
06-23 Dallas, TX - Palladium
06-25 Tulsa, OK - Brady Theatre
06-26 St. Louis, MO - Fox Theatre
06-28 Columbus, OH - Ohio Theatre
06-29 Knoxville, TN - Civic Theatre
07-01 Jacksonville, FL - Moran Theatre
07-02 Mobile, AL - Saenger Theatre
07-03 Birmingham, AL - Alabama Theatre
07-05 Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre

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