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November 17th, 2011

Press Release Thursday Nov 17th

Press Release
Vancouver, Canada November 17th, 2011

The Bizarre world of Devin Townsend presents:
The Retinal Circus
London, Saturday October 27th, 2012

With last week´s more than highly successful The Devin Townsend Project album shows in London done and over, it´s time for Devin & Co. to focus on bigger things. Much bigger things… In fact, the biggest show he´s ever done. The man himself explains:

This last week was probably THE defining moment in my life, let alone my career in many ways. I’ve had some intense gigs and experiences in music before, but all pale in comparison to the 4 sold out shows in London where we played all four DTP records, with four different bands, night after night.
Everyone worked incredibly hard, and each of us gave 100% to pull it off, bands, players, management, label, and audience. It was awesome!

So here’s the next big gig: Next October 27th, at the amazing Roundhouse in London, We’re putting on the most definitive ‘Devin’ show to date. A culmination of my ENTIRE career with a star line up and full supporting cast.

The show is being called ‘The Retinal Circus’, (named after an old Vancouver club in the 60’s, famous for psychedelic rock shows) and will be more than just a musical performance… there will be an art exhibition, actors, Ziltoid, stilt walkers, fire breathers…you name it. My goal has always been to make SHOWS, and this is the first opportunity I have been given to do a high-end production that puts it all together! It’s the closest Saturday to Halloween, and the goal is to make something amazing that we can all enjoy…details to come…psychedelic!

My career has been full of amazing musicians, and there will be plenty of them present at this show, and I’ll be playing music that has never been attempted due to the size of the songs and the need for certain things.

It will be recorded for a DVD of course, and it’s going to be a pretty intense experience… we have a year to make it perfect, so I just wanted to give you some hints! The VIP package will be available with special goodies among other exclusive things.

Anyways, I’m back to work here…I hope to see you there, I’m beyond excited to have this opportunity, we’re not taking it lightly!

Dev

General Admission Tickets will go on sale tomorrow, Friday November 18th via the HevyDevy.com website where also 50 very exclusive VIP tickets will be made available. The content for these VIP packages may change slightly leading up to the date but confirmed for now are:
- Meet n greet with the full band
- Early entry to the show to get the best seats (might change to reserved seating, TBC)
- Tour of the venue showing the production and everything else that goes with it.
- Have your picture taken with Devin and/or band by a professional photographer.
- High quality Devin Townsend bag containing:
• VIP laminate & lanyard
• Exclusive VIP t-shirt
• Exclusive VIP tour poster printed on canvas
• Additional goodies confirmed though exact specs TBC

More details on the show will be made available along the way but rest assured that things will get pretty crazy suitable only to a man like Mr. Townsend.

This will be one show no one can afford to miss…

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August 1st, 2011

October Headline Tour – On Sale Now

GA tickets and VIP packages for the upcoming North American headline tour this October are now exclusively available on the HevyDevy tour page!

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July 26th, 2011

Devin Townsend Project North American Headlining Tour

THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT announces North American headlining tour; offers free download of 10 song compilation

After successfully completing his North American tour with CHILDREN OF BODOM, OBSCURA, and SEPTICFLESH, Hevy Devy will now be traveling abroad for the rest of the summer, playing various European festivals and solo acoustic dates—but come October, he’ll be back in the States for another tour!

THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT will be hitting the road this fall on a headlining tour (supporting acts will soon be announced), so fans can expect even more Hevy Devy this time around! Dates for the tour are listed below, and Canadian dates will be announced soon! Fanclub pre-sale starts on August 1st exclusively at HevyDevy.com, and a limited amount of VIP packages will be available for each date.

On June 20th, THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT completed their remarkable 4-album series with the simultaneous releases of “Deconstruction” and “Ghost” through Insideout Music. These two albums are some of the most highly anticipated works of the year, and to celebrate their release and the conclusion of the album series, InsideOut Music has now revealed the new DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT landing-page! On this page, fans can download a 10-song compilation of Devin´s releases for FREE!

To download the free compilation, please visit the landing-page listed below!

http://www.insideoutmusic.com/specials/DevinTownsendProject

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July 19th, 2011

Markus Lehto

Hey guys, Devin here.
Here’s the latest installment in the ‘Deconstruction/Ghost-credit-mistake-chronicles’. In the booklet for Ghost, I overlooked including the name of the awesome photographer Markus Lehto who very graciously let me use a photo he took of me at Tuska last year in exchange for a credit, a link to his site, and some disks. None of which I provided. I’d love to explain myself, but the bottom line is what’s done is done. Please check out his work, when the boxset is released, we’ll include the whole shot (it got cropped as well…) and when the next pressings of the albums come out I hope to have all my mistakes fixed. Apologies Markus…gawd… :( Please believe it was just absent-mindedness and not a malicious oversight. The ‘douche-o-meter’ is in the red.

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