Laura Marling Headed to U.S.

Fee-Fie-Foe-Fum, we smell the blood of an Englishwoman…

By Blurt Staff

Mercury Music Prize nominee Laura Marling — 18-year old English singer/songwriter who BLURT recently profiled (see “Darling Marling,” HERE) — just announced her first official American tour, which she is inexplicably calling the “Fee Fie Foe Fum” tour.

To pre-promote her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim Marling played New York City, Los Angeles and Austin earlier this year but these upcoming shows mark her first coast-to-coast jaunt. She’ll be joined by a co-headliner, Lost Highway recording artist Johnny Flynn, a fellow Englishman whose album Tickle Me Pink is out now on Lost Highway. UK folksters Mumford & Sons are opening all below tour dates.
  
Laura Marling wrote and recorded her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim at the age of 17 and has since watched it snowball into one of the most critically acclaimed British albums of the year and was recently nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize. Released in the UK in February, it’ll be made available on CD in the US from August 19th on Astralwerks Records. The album was made available from digital retailers last month.  

Watch for the BLURT album review soon too.

Laura Marling Tour Dates:
  
 9/13 Boston, MA @ ICC Church
 9/15 NYC, NY @ The Bowery Ballroom
 9/17 Philadelphia, PA @ The Side Chapel
 9/18 Alexandria, VA @ The Birchmere
 9/20 Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge
 9/21 Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Club
 9/23 Denver, CO @ The Falcon
 9/26 Los Angeles, CA @ The Hotel Cafe
 9/28 San Francisco, CA @ The Cafe du Nord
 9/30 Portland, OR @ Lola's
 10/01 Seattle, WA @ The Tractor Tavern
 10/03 Montreal, Canada @ O Patro Vys  
 10/04 Toronto, Canada @ Rivoli