Tag: The House of Love

The House of Love announces first North American tour in nearly 30 years

The House of Love announces first North American tour in nearly 30 years

The House of Love will return to North America this May for the first time in nearly 30 years, playing an 11-date tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its second self-titled studio album, the so-called “Butterfly album” that marked the band’s first inroads in the U.S. Full dates right here.

New releases: Echo & The Bunnymen, Joe Strummer, Pixies, House of Love, Nick Cave, XTC

New releases: Echo & The Bunnymen, Joe Strummer, Pixies, House of Love, Nick Cave, XTC

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. (Since we missed last week’s round-up, this includes titles that came out this past Friday, too.)

The House of Love's Creation Records debut to receive 30th anniversary 5CD box set

The House of Love’s Creation Records debut to receive 30th anniversary 5CD box set

Cherry Red Records will celebrate the 30th anniversary of The House of Love’s self-titled debut album on Creation Records — the second of three eponymous releases from the U.K. indie band — with a newly expanded 5CD set featuring a new remastering of the original record. Check out the full 84-song tracklist.

The House of Love to mark 30th anniversary of debut with live performance of 'The House of Love'

The House of Love to mark 30th anniversary of debut with live performance of ‘The House of Love’

The House of Love will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its self-titled debut album — 1988’s The House of Love, not to be confused with 1987 compilation The House of Love or 1990 sophomore set The House of Love — by performing the classic album in full this November in London. Tickets are on sale now.

The House of Love to headline UK's Indie Daze festival with Creation Records-era set

The House of Love to headline UK’s Indie Daze festival with Creation Records-era set

Billed as “the kind of event you wish had happened years ago,” the fourth installment of London’s Indie Daze festival will feature The House of Love, Voice of the Beehive and Apollo 440, as well as Crazyhead, The Wonder Stuff’s Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls and Thousand Yard Stare.

Vintage Video: The House of Love plays an hour-long set at D.C.'s 9:30 Club in 1992

Vintage Video: The House of Love plays an hour-long set at D.C.’s 9:30 Club in 1992

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present something we don’t come across too often online: a full set, or at least a good chunk of a full set, by The House of Love. In this case, we’ve got a concert filmed Oct. 27, 1992, at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., while touring Babe Rainbow.