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Warpaint, the Family Band & PVT played Brooklyn Bowl (pics)

photos by Amanda Hatfield

Warpaint @ Brooklyn Bowl
Warpaint

“Letter by letter, they spelled out the words ‘Billie Holiday’ until they didn’t register anymore, the sort of sing-songy chant you might hear on a playground. The letters, glazed in reverb and sung in unison, slurred into one another over the slack strum of guitar. Out of nowhere, the song suddenly cribbed lyrics from a girl-group anthem from the 1960s, Mary Wells’s ‘My Guy’: ‘Nothing you can say/ Can tear me away/ From my guy/ Nothing you can do/ ‘Cause I’m stuck like glue/ To my guy.’

The song in question was called ‘Billie Holiday,’ and it encapsulated the hypnotic powers of the band singing it at the Paradise on Tuesday night. Warpaint is essentially a modern girl group, but one that lingers in a haze of ’60s psychedelia and ’80s shoegaze. The Shangri-Las on Quaaludes, if you will.”-[BostonGlobe]

That review is from Warpaint‘s date with The Paradise in Boston on 3/29, the day before they would hit Brooklyn Bowl with tourmates PVT & The Family Band and one of two NYC dates in total (they also played Bowery Ballroom the next night). Pictures from Brooklyn Bowl adorn this post. More of them, with dates too, below…

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WARPAINT – 2011 TOUR DATES
Tue 5th Apr 2011 Grimey’s Nashville, TN United States
Tue 5th Apr 2011 Mercy Lounge Nashville, TN United States
Wed 6th Apr 2011 The Earl Atlanta, GA United States
Thu 7th Apr 2011 Republic New Orleans, LA United States
Fri 8th Apr 2011 Fitzgerald’s Houston, TX United States
Sat 9th Apr 2011 La Zona Rosa Austin, TX United States
Mon 11th Apr 2011 The Loft Dallas, TX United States
Wed 13th Apr 2011 Club Congress Tucson, AZ United States
Fri 15th Apr 2011 Coachella Indio, CA United States
Wed 11th May 2011 The Junction Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom
Thu 12th May 2011 The Great Escape Festival Brighton, East Sussex United Kingdom
Fri 13th May 2011 O2 Academy Oxford Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom
Sat 14th May 2011 Gorilla Manchester, United Kingdom
Sun 15th May 2011 Tripod Dublin, Ireland Ireland
Tue 17th May 2011 O2 Academy Bristol Bristol, Somerset United Kingdom
Wed 18th May 2011 The Library at HMV Institute Birmingham, Digbeth United Kingdom
Thu 19th May 2011 Leeds Met Students Union Leeds, Yorkshire United Kingdom
Fri 20th May 2011 Lancaster Library Lancaster, Lancashire United Kingdom
Sat 21st May 2011 Stag And Dagger Festival Glasgow, Lanarkshire United Kingdom
Mon 23rd May 2011 O2 Academy Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle United Kingdom
Tue 24th May 2011 Leadmill Sheffield, Sheffield United Kingdom
Wed 25th May 2011 HMV Forum Kentish Town, London United Kingdom
Thu 26th May 2011 Bataclan Paris, France
Sat 28th May 2011 Primavera Sound Barcelona , Barcelona Spain
Thu 16th Jun 2011 Rockhal Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg Luxembourg
Fri 17th Jun 2011 Southside Festival Tuttlingen, Germany
Sat 18th Jun 2011 Hurricane Festival Scheessel, Germany
Sun 19th Jun 2011 Paradiso Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wed 22nd Jun 2011 Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth, Portsmouth United Kingdom
Thu 23rd Jun 2011 Millenium Music Hall Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom
Fri 24th Jun 2011 Glastonbury Festival Pilton, Somerset United Kingdom
Sat 25th Jun 2011 Glastonbury Festival Pilton, Somerset United Kingdom
Tue 28th Jun 2011 Kulturkirche Kšln , North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Thu 30th Jun 2011 Rock Werchter Werchter, Belgium
Fri 1st Jul 2011 Main Square Festival Arras, France
Sun 3rd Jul 2011 OpenAir St. Gallen St. Gallen, St. Gallen Switzerland
Fri 5th Aug 2011 OFF Festival Katowice, Silesia Poland
Wed 10th Aug 2011 Oya Festival Oslo, Norway
Thu 11th Aug 2011 Way Out West Gothenburg, Sweden
Fri 26th Aug 2011 Leeds Festival Leeds, United Kingdom
Sun 28th Aug 2011 Reading Festival Reading, United Kingdom