Neutral Milk Hotel are set to headline the all new Jabberwocky festival, which will take place in London from August 15-16.
The two day event will be staged at the ExCel Centre and will also see sets from Caribou, Iceage, Earth, Joanna Gruesome, Chelsea Wolfe, The Growlers, I Break Horses, Speedy Ortiz, Hookworms, Connan Mockasin, Metz and more. Tickets go on sale at 9am on February 14. For more details and a full line-up, visit ATPFestival.com.
The event is a joint venture from ATP, Pitchfork and Primavera Sound. Ahead of the festival, Neutral Milk Hotel will play a handful of UK and Ireland dates as part of their world tour, visiting Dublin Vicar Street on May 16, followed by Manchester Albert Hall on May 18, Glasgow Barrowland on May 19 and London’s Roundhouse on May 21-23. They will then play two shows in France before appearances at Primavera Sound and Optimus Primavera Sound festivals in Barcelona, Spain (May 29-31) and Porto, Portugal (5-7 June). For a full list of tour dates, visit walkingwallofwords.com
The band had been on hiatus since their last studio album – 1998’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and its subsequent tour. The touring line-up of the band consists of Mangum, Scott Spillane, Julian Koster and Jeremy Barnes.