Two Swedish bands that have never worn retro rock as a pose are teaming up for a joint tour. Graveyard and Blues Pills have announced a co-headline tour for March 2027 with eight shows in Germany — it opens on March 5 at Hamburg's Große Freiheit 36, followed by Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Munich, Leipzig and Berlin, and wraps up with two Cologne nights on March 20 and 22. Support comes from fellow Swedes, the band Spiders. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, September 9, at ten in the morning. Visions ↗
Graveyard formed in 2006 in Gothenburg and belong to that wing of contemporary hard rock that carries on the tradition of the seventies without turning it into a carnival act. Blues Pills are five years younger — formed in 2011 in Örebro, they have four studio albums behind them, the latest of which, Birthday, came out in August 2024. This year they also added a live recording of it, so on tour they will likely play material from that release.
One question, however, remains open. In late June, Graveyard announced the departure of singer and guitarist Jonatan LaRocca and have not yet said who will replace him. The answer will be known at the latest when the two bands kick off their joint Scandinavian tour in late autumn — that is, before the German dates. Visions ↗
For listeners following the Nordic retro-rock scene, this is an interesting pairing precisely because both bands build on the same sonic foundation but take it in different directions: Graveyard toward psychedelia and more sprawling songs, Blues Pills toward straightforward, vocal-driven hard rock. Heard back-to-back on one stage, that contrast will come through more clearly than it does on record.
Illustrative photo: Graveyard live in concert. Photo: Frank Schwichtenberg / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Graveyard and Blues Pills to hit the road together in March 2027
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