Lyres are looking to fill two dates in the Midwest in April: Thursday, April 16th; and Friday, April 17th. We're playing in Davenport, IA at Ragged Records on Record Store Day, Saturday, April 18th, and in Peoria, IL at Younger Than Yesterday on Sunday, April 19th. We'd like to book that Thursday and Friday in St. Louis, Chicago, Champaign, Milwaukee, Madison, etc... 

Update: We've booked dates in Milwaukee, Davenport, and Peoria. We only have one more date to fill.

Gentleman John Battles, thank you for the Chicago suggestions! We initially thought we had an Empty Bottle date wrapped up, but their talent buyer won't respond to our emails now, so we'll try some of your other suggestions. 

kopper, thanks for your help in trying to get us a St. Louis show. We appreciate it! We'd love to play either Chicago or St. Louis. We'll keep you updated. 

Tour is booked! We're playing Chicago at the Bottom Lounge, Milwaukee at the Cactus Club, Davenport at Ragged Records, and Peoria at Younger Than Yesterday (and later that night at the Rail II). John and kopper, thanks again for your help! Sorry we couldn't set anything up in St. Louis. Maybe next time. 

Here's the latest Lyres Midwest tour update... Bottom Lounge in Chicago fell through, so we're kicking off the mini-tour in Green Bay, WI instead. Sorry John, no Chicago show this time around, after all. Hope we can work something out in Chicago and St. Louis next time. Here are the dates/venues for the April 2015 tour:

Thursday, April 16th - Green Bay, WI at Phatheadz.

Friday, April 17th - Milwaukee, WI at the Cactus Club.

Saturday, April 18th - Davenport, IA at Ragged Records. We'll be playing at the record store on Record Store Day, and doing a Daytrotter session across the river in Rock Island later that day. 

Sunday, April 19th - Peoria, IL at Younger Than Yesterday. We'll play a short set at Craig Moore's record store (another Record Store Day-weekend gig), then later that night we'll play a full set at the Rail II in Peoria.

The lyne-up will consist of: Jeff Conolly on vocals, tambourine, and Vox organ; Timm Buechler on bass (Timm has played bass with The Paul Collins Beat, "The Nerves" [Peter Case/Paul Collins tour], and Dwight Twilley); and the guys from Orange Rooftops (Jeff Gregory on drums, Jason Eaton on lead guitar, and T.J. O'Brien on rhythm guitar). This is a rare "two guitars" Lyres lyne-up. Aside from our gig in Iowa City last Summer, Lyres haven't had two guitar players since 1980. Most of the material we'll be playing will be Lyres, but we throw in some DMZ for good measure. If you're in the Midwest, mark your calendars, and be sure to catch one of these shows if you can! 

I'M SORRY IT DIDN'T WORK OUT. SOME OTHER TIME.