Sold out: THE THE live at the Masonic Temple Cathedral

THE THE tour dates

10/26 - Palace Theatre – St. Paul, MN

10/29 - Mission Ballroom – Denver, CO

10/30 - Eccles Theater – Salt Lake City, UT

11/2 - Paramount Theatre – Seattle, WA

11/3 - Roseland Theater – Portland, OR

11/4 - Orpheum – Vancouver, BC

11/7 - Fox Theater – Oakland, CA

11/8 - Shrine Auditorium – Los Angeles, CA

11/14 - Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre - Auckland, New Zealand SOLD OUT

11/16 - Palais Theatre, Melbourne, Australia SOLD OUT

11/17 - Palais Theatre, Melbourne, Australia

11/18 - Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide, Australia

11/21 - Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

11/22 - Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

11/23 - Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane, Australia SOLD OUT

11/24 - Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane, Australia

11/27 - Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, Australia

We had the pleasure of checking out The The’s show at the Masonic Temple Cathedral. The night was packed to the brim with dedicated fans. Fans who have been with them for over forty years. The band knew that they couldn’t just have any other tour, so they broke it up into two sections. The first section was dedicated to their recent album release Ensoulment. They play the entire album in order. This album just so happens to be their first album in over 25 years. The second section was “the Retro stuff” as frontman Matt Johnson coined. Which was a collection of their past work.

One thing we enjoyed was that they opened up a general standing section for this show, so no matter the age, you still got that feeling of being front row seeing your favorite artist.

In support of Ensoulment THE THE will embark on a world-wide tour with dates kicking off August 28 with many European and UK dates already sold-out. The North American run starts in Atlanta, GA on October 11 and concludes on November 8 at The Shrine in Los Angeles, CA. The band will play at the Beacon Theater in New York City on October 17. The “Ensouled Tour'' will mark the band’s first since their hugely successful “The Comeback Special” world tour in 2018. All dates are listed below and tickets for North American shows are here.

The B-sides for all Ensoulment singles have been composed, performed and produced by Matt Johnson especially for each limited edition 7” vinyl. In this case, the B-side, “Frozen Clouds” will also feature in the soundtrack for director Gerard Johnson’s forthcoming film, Odyssey. Additionally, The The’s “Lonely Planet” from their 1993 album Dusk will be featured as the end credits music in Francis Ford Coppola’s forthcoming new film Megalopolis out September 26.

“It’s vital to be hopeful,” Johnson states. “And I hope people get out of the album what we put into it. It was created under very happy circumstances, with a great vibe amongst the band and all the people that worked on it. There was a lot of thought, a lot of work, a lot of love, a lot of laughter!

More about the Ensoulment artwork

The single cover features a previously unpublished work of Matt Johnson’s late brother Andrew (AKA artist Andy Dog) who, over the years, was very much responsible for the distinctive aesthetic style of THE THE’s releases.

THE THE has partnered with Ticketmaster Face Value Exchange (USA & CA) and Twickets (ROW) to enable fans to buy / sell tickets in an ethical manner at face value.

The artist wants to give fans, not scalpers, the best chance to buy tickets at face value. To help achieve this, the NA leg of the tour will be using and Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange where, if needed, you can resell your ticket to other fans at the original price paid. To help protect the Exchange, THE THE has also chosen to make tickets for this tour mobile only and restricted from transfer.* Please note, a valid bank account or debit card within the country of your event is required to sell on the Face Value Exchange.

*New York, Illinois, Colorado, Virginia and Connecticut have passed state laws requiring unlimited ticket resale and limiting artists’ ability to determine how their tickets are resold. To adhere to local law, tickets in these states will not be restricted from transfer but the artist encourages fans to use the Face Value Exchange.

About THE THE:

THE THE was formed by Matt Johnson in 1979 and the music inhabits a genre of its own: music of long shadows, high hopes, channelled anger, feverish passions and sweetly disturbing poignancy. It is pop and rock, blues and folk, soul and polemic. It spans alienated electronics to twisted cinematic soundtracks, guitar tumbling swing to crimson ballads, rants and prayers to diaries and hymns.

In over four decades, THE THE have released just five studio albums of original songs – Soul Mining (1983), Infected (1986), Mind Bomb (1989), Dusk (1993) and NakedSelf (2000). But always unpredictable, during this time THE THE have also made diversions into cover albums, such as Hanky Panky; film soundtracks including Hyena, Tony, Muscle and Moonbug; art installations; a podcast series, Radio Cinéola; a beautiful and moving 84-minute documentary, The Inertia Variations; and various book publications, including biography Long Shadows, High Hopes: The Life and Times of Matt Johnson & THE THE.Find THE THE