News - The Mission District Postpone UK Tour

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Submitted: "Due to recording commitments, Montreal pop rockers The Mission District regret to announce that they will be postponing their upcoming UK tour until November

Their forthcoming debut album, "Youth Games" is currently being recorded in the bands native Canada with producer Luc Tellier (Delson Drive, The Furlongs). Recording sessions for the upcoming album have been extended by a further three weeks, forcing the band to postpone their UK tour due to the necessity of completing the record by the required deadline.

A statement from the band is as follows:

It breaks my heart just to be writing this, but we have to postpone our UK Tour from September to November. The release for our first album has been set for early February 2010 and the record company has made the decision that they want everything for it done by the end of the month. So we’re going to finish up recording over the next few weeks and shoot two new music videos. We’d much rather be out there playing for you, but unfortunately this needs to happen. We want to make the best album possible for you guys.

Thanks to everyone who has supported us and bought tickets for our tour. We love every single one of you. We promise we’ll make our shows even better for you in November.

David, Antoine, Mike, Rob and Travis."

The rescheduled dates are as follows. All original tickets remain valid.

NOVEMBER
10th Colchester Twist
11th Bristol Academy 2
13th Nottingham The Basement
15th Cardiff Barfly
16th Oxford Academy 2
17th Birmingham Academy 3
19th *Portsmouth The Cellars
20th Guildford Boiler House
21st *Peterborough Met Lounge
23rd Liverpool Masque
24th Newcastle Academy 2
26th Manchester Roadhouse
27th *York Fibbers
29th Dublin Academy 2
30th Glasgow King Tuts
* denotes extra shows!

The London Barfly show on September 30th will still go ahead as planned. (This show is a charity event with proceeds going to the Teenage Cancer Trust)."