Thom Yorke Touring With Eraser Band; Flying Lotus Joins As Opener

Feb 25, 2010 at 10:15 am.

Trying to keep my own composure while typing this is challenging enough. Remember how I said the National with the Antlers is the must have ticket of the year last week? Well forget that. That was “bollocks”. Ateasweb has just announced that Thom Yorke will be touching down for a handful of North American dates in April where his Eraser band — now officially called “Atoms For Peace” — will be joining him (consisting of Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco.) On top of all that, electronic phenom Flying Lotus, who has a new album coming out entitled: Cosmogramma on May 4 where Thom Yorke will feature on a cut, will be the opener. Tickets are to go on sale next week. Mr. Yorke had the following to say:

“hey everyone

ok so in April the other band.. that i got together to do the eraser and other stuff u know .. Mauro, Flea, Me, Joey and Nigel is going back out to do some shows in the US.. ending with playing with Coachella. we had too much fun to just leave it there…

It has been decided that we call ourselves Atoms For Peace. hope you like the name.. it seemed bleedin’ obvious.”

Thom Yorke with Atoms For Peace Tour Dates:

April 5 & 6 – New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom
April 8 – Boston, MA @ Citi Wang Theatre
April 10 & 11 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
April 14 & 15 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre
April 17 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl