Thrill Jockey’s hard-rocking Baltimore crew Arbouretum are back in the UK this month, playing a five-date tour of the country. They’ll be drawing on their exceedingly strong back catalogue, added to last year by their Coming Out Of The Fog album – have a look at the tour dates below (with the video for the album’s title track at the foot of the piece):
AUGUST
Thu 15 – Tiki Bar, Plymouth
Sun 18 – Exchange, Bristol
Mon 19 – The Port Mahon, Oxford
Tue 20 – The Borderline, London
Wed 21 – Soup Kitchen, Manchester
We’ve got a couple of pairs of tickets to give away to two lucky readers for the August 20 show at London’s Borderline. To be in with a chance of winning, e-mail your answer to the following question to comps@thequietus.com, with ARBOURETUM in the subject line, by noon on Friday 9 August. To read the Quietus Competition terms & conditions, click here.
An arboretum is a garden collecting together different species of trees, but what do you call one that’s dedicated specifically to oaks?
A. Oaketum
B. Oaky Tum
C. Oak? Eat ‘um
D. Quercetum
