(Photo Credit: Joshua Pickering)
Today, Bob Mould offers a sneak peek into the set he and Fred Armisen are performing at this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass with their version of the Hüsker Dü classic, “I Apologize.” This year’s festival is being held as a free, virtual, live-streamed event. Mould’s set, featuring Armisen, is scheduled to be streamed at 7:05 PM Pacific time on Friday, October 1. For more information on Hardly Strictly Bluegrass go here.
“I was thrilled when the Hardly Strictly folks asked me to perform for this year’s online series,” Mould said. “They wondered if I had a colleague who might be able to help out on a few songs, and I immediately thought of my good friend, Fred Armisen — he wrote the foreword for DISTORTION — and fortunately he was available on ‘tape day.’ Fred drove up from Los Angeles, we rehearsed the entire set at soundcheck and then ran the set a second time for the cameras. I love it when things come together so easily, and we’re both really happy with the performance.”
Mould is currently on tour with his band, bassist Jason Narducy and drummer Jon Wurster. Starting October 15 he’ll be performing solo, with Narducy serving as the tour’s opener. Mould is on tour in support of his last album, 2019’s Blue Hearts and his massive career retrospective box set Distortion. On tour, Mould is performing songs from his early days in the seminal Hüsker Dü, to his solo career, and his 1990’s band Sugar. See below for tour dates.
BOB MOULD BAND: DISTORTION AND BLUE HEARTS
BOB MOULD SOLO ELECTRIC: DISTORTION AND BLUE HEARTS
EUROPE
January 19. – Dublin, IE – Whelan’s
January 21 – Liverpool, UK – Arts Club
January 23 – Cardiff, UK - The Globe
January 24 - Chester, UK – The Live Rooms
January 25 – Birmingham – The Mill
January 27 – Stoke-on-trent – The Sugarmill
January 28 - Bristol, UK – Theka
January 29 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
January 31 – Glasgow, UK. – Oran Mor
February 1 – Newcastle, UK - Riverside
February 3 – Southampton, UK – Engine Rooms
February 4 – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
February 5 - Oxford, UK – Academy O2
February 7 - Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
February 8. - London, UK Islington Assembly Hall
