It looks like The Promise Ring have decided to continue playing live before or after the two shows they announced about three weeks ago. Drummer Dan Didier explained to Billboard.com:
“We’re not gonna get back in a van and go around doing that type of touring. We’re just going to try to do select cities and mainly fly-ins or short drives. It’ll probably be anywhere between 10 and 15 shows. We’ll go from there.”
A new album is not in the cards, but Dan also told Billboard that they still plan to release the compilation album they’ve been planning for a while, explaining:
“We’re still working out the tracklist; a lot also depends on some hard drives that have crashed on me over the years . There’s a song we recorded during the ‘Wood/Water’ session that isn’t anywhere, so we’ll probably throw that on as maybe the main track. The other song from that session is called ‘All Good Souls’ — it was the bonus track on the 10 inch of ‘Wood/Water.’ From there we have some demos we recorded for that didn’t even make the recording of the record.”
The 2012 shows will mark the second time The Promise Ring got back together. They split up in October 2002 and reunited for a one-off performance in 2005 at Chicago’s Flower Booking six-night fundraiser, Flower15, and then parted ways again. They released their last album Wood/Water not long before the break up.
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