Some good news for a Tuesday lunchtime, with Brokeback announcing their European tour, and including a date in Whelans on Monday November 25th! See Brokeback’s new video for Tonight at Ten / Tonight at Eleven below.

Tortoise’s Douglas McCombs goal for his longstanding Brokeback project has always been to do service to those fleeting moments in life when everything seems clear and defined and beautiful and the hair stands up on the back of your neck. These moments are hard to describe and by their nature impossible to capture, but to try it is to be inspired. They’re not always auditory, but for their musical expression, think Roy Orbison when he’s sad and lonely, or alternately when he’s feeling triumphant, a Tom Verlaine guitar solo, Stravinsky and Erik Satie, an Ennio Morricone crescendo. Or Billy Gibbons, in a lyric like “Ridin’ ’top the floodway on a Friday night / The landscape’s a fine and natural sight.”

Tickets are €16.50 and are available here.