We’re sure you’re getting tired of seeing announcements like this. When we planned our 2022 tour 7 months ago we hoped we would be in a more ideal place to carry it out by now. pic.twitter.com/E5kpTWwAUV

— EELS (@THE_EELS) February 17, 2022

In a full statement from the band, they say, “We’re sure you’re getting tired of seeing announcements like this. When we planned our 2022 tour 7 months ago we hoped we would be in a more ideal place to carry it out by now. Hopefully, things are improving but unfortunately, because of the current state of the pandemic and travel & local restrictions, we’re not quite at a point where we can pull off a tour. Our spring ’22 tour of Europe and the U.S. will have to be postponed to spring ’23. We’d come sooner but the rest of this year has been reserved by artists who previously had to cancel. We’re extremely disappointed we won’t get to see you this year, it was going to be doubly rocktastic after not being able to tour in 2020, so we will rock you triply in 2023.” The band go on to add, “Hold on to your tickets, they’ll be valid for the new dates (except Colorado, see below) and if the new date doesn’t work for you you’ll be given a full refund at the point of purchase. All of the cities and venues remain the same except the Boulder, CO show will be refunded and moved to Denver’s Gothic Theatre, the venues in Vienna and Milan have changed but your tickets will be honoured, and we’ve added a new show in Nimes, France.”

The band’s highly anticipated fourteenth studio album Extreme Witchcraft is out now via PIAS and the band’s own E Works Records here. EELS frontman and songwriter, Mark Oliver Everett, co-produced Extreme Witchcraft with PJ Harvey producer and guitarist John Parish, marking the first time the two have recorded together since 2001’s Souljacker album. As of yet, the album has, as of yet, gathered a pretty solid critical response after The New York Times described it is, “A fuzz-toned guitar riff and a snappy beat carry ‘Good Night on Earth,’ a quintessential Eels song: hoarse, succinct, dry-eyed and well aware of life’s ironies.”

Aside from the new album, if you’re a fan of the band and are after a quick fix of new content then you can find a full rundown of tour dates and information here. See the full dates listed below.

26/3/22 – Rock City – Notthingham
27/3 – Roundhouse – London
30/3 – Telegraph Building – Belfast
31/3 – Olympia Theatre – Dublin
2/4 – Barrowland – Glasgow
3/4 – Albert Hall – Manchester
4/4 – O2 Guildhall – Southampton