Weakerthans Announce More Touring

Almost a year after the release of their beloved sophomore release, Left And Leaving, the lads of the Weakerthans are still showing no signs of resting on their highly impressive laurels.

They've been keeping up a constant touring regime that will see them opening for such political-minded peers as Lowest Of The Low and Billy Bragg later this summer. Also, two of the boys have also been hard at work composing music for a poetry collection.

Titled, Trains Of Winnipeg, the disc features a series of poems by Clive Holden accompanied by music from Weakerthans singer John K Samson, drummer Jason Tait and fellow Winnipeg songwriter Christine Fellows. Composed of 13 poems inspired by the 'Peg's transit system as well as two bonus tracks, the disc should find a warm place in the hearts of fans of the artists involved, as well as anyone who enjoyed the spoken word moments on Gord Downie's Coke Machine Glow.

Trains Of Winnipeg won't be out until September, but you can get a taste of things to come at trainsofwinnipeg.com. If you can't wait that long for more Weakerthans and happen to find yourself in Southern Ontario or Western New York, then you're in luck. Early August will have the band bringing their poetic, folk-flavored anarchist punk to that neck of the woods once again.

They'll be playing all-ages sets with a revolving cast of equally cool artists on the following dates:
Aug. 2 Toronto, ON @ The Molson Amphitheatre (w/ Billy Bragg and Lowest Of The Low)
Aug. 3 Ottawa, ON @ Babylon
Aug. 4 Guelph, ON @ The Trasheteria
Aug. 9 Toronto, ON @ Reverb w/Duotang
Aug. 10Buffalo, NY @ Artpark w/Lowest Of The Low