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Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Tour Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide for more than two decades with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock & roll. Exploding onto the

Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Tour

Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide for more than two decades with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock & roll. Exploding onto the music scene in 1993 with their multi-platinum breakout album, August and Everything After, the band has gone on to release seven studio albums, selling more than 20 million records worldwide, and is revered as one of the world’s most pre-eminent live touring rock bands. In 2004, Counting Crows recorded the chart-topping “Accidently in Love” for the animated motion picture Shrek 2. The instant success of the track earned them an Academy Award nomination for “Best Original Song” at the 2005 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Original Song,” and a GRAMMY Award nomination for “Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.” Over the last 30 years, the masterful songwriting from frontman Adam Duritz put the band at No.8 on Billboard Magazine’s 2021 “Greatest Of All Time: Adult Alternative 25th Anniversary Chart.” The band released their newest record, Butter Miracle, featuring hit single “Elevator Boots” in April of 2021.

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Counting Crows announce 'Butter Miracle Tour 2022'

As the legendary rock band Counting Crows begin to wrap up ‘ The Butter Miracle Tour’ later this month in the United States, the band have announced their long-awaited return to Europe in 2022 with ‘Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Tour 2022’ . The 26-show run is set to kick off in Helsinki at the famed House of Culture on February 28th, making stops in major cities before ending in Israel at the Raanana Park Amphitheatre on April 20th.

Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Tour 2022 tour announcement follows the release of the band’s latest record BUTTER MIRACLE, SUITE ONE , a four-track, nineteen-minute suite available now worldwide. General ticket on-sale for the 2022 dates is set to begin on Friday, October 8th at 10:00 AM local time.

Returning to Europe for the first time since 2018, lead singer Adam Duritz and Counting Crows will be performing in Israel for the first time and will also be returning to the stage in several cities including London, Dublin, Milan, and Barcelona. Speaking about the announcement, Adam Duritz said, “It’s great to be back out on the road in the States after all this time off but we’re over the moon about touring Europe in the Spring. We look forward to seeing everyone at the shows in 2022!”

Artist presale and VIP package sales for the tour began Tuesday , October 5th at 10am local time for 24 hours. Local and partner presale begins Wednesday , October 6th until Friday , October 8th . Tickets go on sale to the general public starting Friday, October 8th at 10:00 AM local time. VIP packages include exclusive merchandise, access to a special soundcheck experience, and early VIP entry into the venue. Visit CountingCrows.com for all the details.

Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide for more than two decades with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock & roll. Exploding onto the music scene in 1993 with their multi-platinum breakout album, August and Everything After , the band has gone on to release seven studio albums, selling more than 20 million records worldwide, and is revered as one of the world's most pre-eminent live touring rock bands.

In 2004, Counting Crows recorded the chart-topping ‘Accidently in Love’ for the animated motion picture Shrek 2. The instant success of the track earned them an Academy Award nomination for ‘Best Original Song’ at the 2005 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination for ‘Best Original Song’, and a GRAMMY Award nomination for ‘Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media’. Over the last 30 years, the masterful songwriting from front man Adam Duritz put the band at No.8 on Billboard Magazine's 2021 ‘Greatest Of All Time: Adult Alternative 25 th Anniversary Chart’.

BUTTER MIRACLE TOUR 2022 DATES

• Feb 28 th – House of Culture, Helsinki (FIN)
• Mar 3 rd – Filadelfia, Stockholm (SWE)
• Mar 5 th – Sentrum Scene, Oslo (NOR)
• Mar 7 th – Grey Hall, Copenhagen (DEN)
• Mar 9 th – AFAS Live, Amsterdam (NLD)
• Mar 10 th – Palladium, Cologne (DEU)
• Mar 12 th – Huxleys, Berlin (DEU)
• Mar 13 th – Stodola, Warsaw (POL)
• Mar 15 th – O2 Universam, Prague (CZE)
• Mar 17 th – De Roma, Antwerp (BEL)
• Mar 18 th – Folies Bergeres, Paris (FRA)
• Mar 21 st – O2 Apollo, Manchester (GBR)
• Mar 22 nd – O2 Academy, Birmingham (GBR)
• Mar 24 th – Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, London (GBR)
• Mar 27 th – 3 Arena, Dublin (IRE)
• Mar 29 th – O2 Academy, Glasgow (GBR)
• Mar 31 st – O2 Academy, Sheffield (GBR)
• Apr 1 st – O2 Guildhall, Southampton (GBR)
• Apr 5 th – Teatro Lirico, Milan (ITA)
• Apr 6 th – Tuscany Hall, Florence (ITA)
• Apr 8 th – Gran Teatro Geox, Padova (ITA)
• Apr 11 th – X-TRA, Zurich (CHE)
• Apr 13 th – Razzmatazz, Barcelona (ESP)
• Apr 14 th – La Riviera, Madrid (ESP)
• Apr 16 th – Sala Santana, Bilbao (ESP)
• Apr 20 th – Raanana Park Amphitheatre, Tel Aviv (ISR)

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As the legendary rock band  Counting Crows  begin to wrap up  ‘The Butter Miracle Tour’  later this month in the United States, the band have announced their long-awaited return to Europe in 2022 with  ‘Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Tour 2022’ .   The 26-show run is set to kick off in Helsinki at the famed House of Culture on February 28th, making stops in major cities before ending in Israel at the Raanana Park Amphitheatre on April 20th.

  Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Tour 2022 tour announcement follows the release of the band’s latest record  BUTTER MIRACLE, SUITE ONE , a four-track, nineteen-minute suite available now worldwide.   General ticket on-sale for the 2022 dates is set to begin on  Friday, October 8th  at 10:00 AM local time.   Returning to Europe for the first time since 2018, lead singer Adam Duritz and Counting Crows will be performing in Israel for the first time and will also be returning to the stage in several cities including London, Dublin, Milan, and Barcelona.

  Speaking about the announcement, Adam Duritz said,  “It’s great to be back out on the road in the States after all this time off but we’re over the moon about touring Europe in the Spring. We look forward to seeing everyone at the shows in 2022!”   Artist presale and VIP package sales for the tour began  Tuesday ,  October 5th  at  10 am  local time for 24 hours. Local and partner presale begins  Wednesday ,  October 6th  until  Friday ,  October 8th . Tickets go on sale to the general public starting  Friday, October 8th  at  10:00 AM  local time. VIP packages include exclusive merchandise, access to a special soundcheck experience, and early VIP entry into the venue. Visit CountingCrows.com for all the details.     Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide for more than two decades with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock & roll. Exploding onto the music scene in 1993 with their multi-platinum breakout album,  August and Everything After ,  the band has gone on to release seven studio albums, selling more than 20 million records worldwide, and is revered as one of the world’s most pre-eminent live touring rock bands.   In 2004, Counting Crows recorded the chart-topping ‘Accidently in Love’ for the animated motion picture  Shrek 2.  The instant success of the track earned them an Academy Award nomination for ‘Best Original Song’ at the 2005 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination for ‘Best Original Song’, and a GRAMMY Award nomination for ‘Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media’. Over the last 30 years, the masterful songwriting from front man Adam Duritz put the band at No.8 on  Billboard Magazine’s  2021 ‘Greatest Of All Time: Adult Alternative 25 th  Anniversary Chart’.

  BUTTER MIRACLE TOUR 2022 DATES Feb 28 th  – House of Culture, Helsinki (FIN) Mar 3 rd  – Filadelfia, Stockholm (SWE) Mar 5 th  – Sentrum Scene, Oslo (NOR) Mar 7 th  – Grey Hall, Copenhagen (DEN) Mar 9 th  – AFAS Live, Amsterdam (NLD) Mar 10 th  – Palladium, Cologne (DEU) Mar 12 th  – Huxleys, Berlin (DEU) Mar 13 th  – Stodola, Warsaw (POL) Mar 15 th  – O2 Universam, Prague (CZE) Mar 17 th  – De Roma, Antwerp (BEL) Mar 18 th  – Folies Bergeres, Paris (FRA) Mar 21 st  – O2 Apollo, Manchester (GBR) Mar 22 nd  – O2 Academy, Birmingham (GBR) Mar 24 th  – Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, London (GBR) Mar 27 th  – 3 Arena, Dublin (IRE) Mar 29 th  – O2 Academy, Glasgow (GBR) Mar 31 st  – O2 Academy, Sheffield (GBR) Apr 1 st  – O2 Guildhall, Southampton (GBR) Apr 5 th  – Teatro Lirico, Milan (ITA) Apr 6 th  – Tuscany Hall, Florence (ITA) Apr 8 th  – Gran Teatro Geox, Padova (ITA) Apr 11 th  – X-TRA, Zurich (CHE) Apr 13 th  – Razzmatazz, Barcelona (ESP) Apr 14 th  – La Riviera, Madrid (ESP) Apr 16 th  – Sala Santana, Bilbao (ESP) Apr 20 th  – Raanana Park Amphitheatre, Tel Aviv (ISR)

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Background [ ]

To Rolling Stone , Adam Duritz said, "I can’t wait to figure out how to work the Butter Miracle Suite into the set. Mostly, though, I’m just so happy to get back to playing shows again." [1] The Salt Lake City shows was canceled, the band explaining, "Unfortunately, due to state mandates in Utah, [Red Butte] is unable to enact our COVID-19 entry protocols so we have made the difficult decision to cancel the show." [2] The band announced the European dates near the end of 2021, initially scheduled for the beginning of 2022 but moved to October 2022 instead.

Set list [ ]

Based on the show in Rome, Italy, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 4, 2022. It is not representative of all shows.

• " Round Here "
• " Scarecrow "
• " Mr. Jones "
• " Colorblind "
• " Butterfly in Reverse "
• " Cover Up the Sun "
• " Ghost Train "
• " God of Ocean Tides "
• " Angels of the Silences "
• " Michaelangelo "
• " The Tall Grass "
• " Elevator Boots "
• " Angel of 14th Street "
• " Bobby and the Rat-Kings "
• " Rain King "
• " A Long December "

Tour dates [ ]

Cancelled shows [ ], references [ ].

• ↑ Hiatt, Brian (June 7, 2021). "Counting Crows Announce 'Butter Miracle' Tour" . Rolling Stone .
• ↑ Means, Sean P. (August 20, 2021). "Counting Crows cancels Red Butte Garden show because the state won’t allow a COVID-19 vaccine mandate" . The Salt Lake Tribune .

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• 1 Mr. Jones
• 2 Time and Time Again
• 3 Anna Begins

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One of the most important bands in alternative rock is returning to Europe with their Butter Miracle Tour and Prague will not be missing out.

Today band announced their long-awaited return to Europe in 2022 with “Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Tour 2022.” The 26-show run is set to kick off in Helsinki on February 28, making stops in major cities before ending in Israel on April 20 . Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Tour 2022 tour announcement follows the release of the band’s latest record BUTTER MIRACLE, SUITE ONE , a four-track, nineteen-minute suite available now worldwide.

Adam Duritz said , “ It’s great to be back out on the road in the States after all this time off but we’re over the moon about touring Europe in the Spring. We look forward to seeing everyone at the shows in 2022! ”

Returning to Europe for the first time since 2018, lead singer Adam Duritz and Counting Crows will be performing in Israel for the first time and will also be returning to the stage in several cities including London , Dublin , Milan , and Barcelona .

Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide for more than two decades with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock & roll. Exploding onto the music scene in 1993 with their multi-platinum breakout album, August and Everything After, the band has gone on to release seven studio albums, selling more than 20 million records worldwide, and is revered as one of the world’s most pre-eminent live touring rock bands. In 2004, Counting Crows recorded the chart-topping “Accidently in Love” for the animated motion picture Shrek 2. The instant success of the track earned them an Academy Award nomination for “Best Original Song” at the 2005 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Original Song,” and a GRAMMY Award nomination for “Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.” Over the last 30 years, the masterful songwriting from frontman Adam Duritz put the band at No.8 on Billboard Magazine’s 2021 “Greatest Of All Time: Adult Alternative 25 th Anniversary Chart.”

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“It’s two-hour, 21-song performance at Meadow Brook was an exercise in organic musical excellence — rote for the Crows, but something precious few bands achieve.” – Oakland Press

“Counting Crows are undoubtedly one of the most important bands in alternative rock, and it’s good to have them back.” – The Rock Revival

“The seminal rock band is roaring back from the pandemic with the Butter Miracle Tour.” – WWAY-TV

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NEW YORK, NY (October 4, 2021) — As the legendary rock band Counting Crows begin to wrap up “The Butter Miracle Tour” later this month in the United States, the band announced today their long-awaited return to Europe in 2022 with “Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Tour 2022.” The 26-show run is set to kick off in Helsinki at the famed House of Culture on February 28, making stops in major cities before ending in Israel at the Raanana Park Amphitheatre on April 20 . Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Tour 2022 tour announcement follows the release of the band’s latest record BUTTER MIRACLE, SUITE ONE , a four-track, nineteen-minute suite available now worldwide. General ticket on-sale for the 2022 dates is set to begin on Friday, October 8 at 10:00 AM local time.

Returning to Europe for the first time since 2018, lead singer Adam Duritz and Counting Crows will be performing in Israel for the first time and will also be returning to the stage in several cities including London , Dublin , Milan , and Barcelona .

Adam Duritz said , “It’s great to be back out on the road in the States after all this time off but we’re over the moon about touring Europe in the Spring. We look forward to seeing everyone at the shows in 2022!”

Artist presale and VIP package sales for the tour begin Tuesday, October 5 at 10am local time for 24 hours. Local and partner presale begin Wednesday, October 6 until Friday, October 8. Tickets go on sale to the general public starting Friday, October 8 at 10:00 AM local time. VIP packages include exclusive merchandise, access to a special soundcheck experience, and early VIP entry into the venue.  Visit CountingCrows.com for all the details.

COUNTING CROWS: BUTTER MIRACLE TOUR 2022 DATES:

February 28                  Helsinki                      House of Culture

March 3                        Stockholm                   Filadelfia

March 5                        Oslo                               Sentrum Scene

March 7                        Copenhagen                Grey Hall

March 9                        Amsterdam                 AFAS Live

March 10                      Cologne                       Palladium

March 12                      Berlin                           Huxleys

March 13                      Warsaw                        Stodola

March 15                      Prague                          O2 Universum

March 17                      Antwerp                       De Roma

March 18                      Paris                             Folies Bergeres

March 21                      Manchester                 O2 Apollo Manchester

March 22                      Birmingham               O2 Academy Birmingham

March 24                      London                        Hammersmith Eventim Apollo

March 27                      Dublin                          3 Arena

March 29                      Glasgow                       O2 Academy Glasgow

March 31                      Sheffield                       O2 Academy Sheffield

April 1                          Southampton               O2 Guildhall Southampton

April 5                          Milan                             Teatro Lirico

April 6                          Florence                       Tuscany Hall

April 8                          Padova                         Gran Teatro Geox

April 11                        Zurich                            X-TRA

April 13                        Barcelona                     Razzmatazz

April 14                        Madrid                         La Riviera

April 16                        Bilbao                           Sala Santana

April 20                        Israel                           Raanana Park Amphitheatre*

Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide for more than two decades with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock & roll. Exploding onto the music scene in 1993 with their multi-platinum breakout album, August and Everything After, the band has gone on to release seven studio albums, selling more than 20 million records worldwide, and is revered as one of the world’s most pre-eminent live touring rock bands. In 2004, Counting Crows recorded the chart-topping “Accidently in Love” for the animated motion picture Shrek 2. The instant success of the track earned them an Academy Award nomination for “Best Original Song” at the 2005 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Original Song,” and a GRAMMY Award nomination for “Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.” Over the last 30 years, the masterful songwriting from frontman Adam Duritz put the band at No.8 on Billboard Magazine’s 2021 “Greatest Of All Time: Adult Alternative 25 th Anniversary Chart.” On May 21, 2021, Counting Crows released BUTTER MIRACLE, SUITE ONE to rave reviews.

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Counting Crows Come Around to California With Nostalgic Butter Miracle Tour 2022

Adam Duritz and Co. deliver premium fan service on hit-packed set in Costa Mesa

For a moment, I wondered if Counting Crows’ Costa Mesa concert had left me in some trippy state of imagining myself in a music video for their 2008 track, “Come Around.”

While driving back to Los Angeles, small, black, mysterious squares suddenly billowed around my car, swirling in an almost poetic fashion, unlike the usual tire debris or junk littering California’s notorious 405 freeway. At that exact moment, Spotify pushed play on “Come Around” and its eerily fitting opening lyrics.

“Little pieces blowing’ gently on the wind,” frontman Adam Duritz sang on cue. “They have flown down California. They have landed in L.A.”

I spent the rest of the drive contemplating what the universe was trying to tell me through “Come Around” – especially given the song wasn’t even on the set list during Wednesday’s Butter Miracle Tour 2022 stop at California’s Pacific Amphitheater.

Instead, it was throwback hit after hit, which the group churned out from the moment they came on stage, following a rollicking set from David Rosales and His Band of Scoundrels.

Opening the nostalgic 90-minute show, which was part of the 2022 O.C. Fair, with “Recovering the Satellites” from their 1996 album of the same name, the group (comprised of Duritz on lead vocals, Charlie Gillingham on keyboards, Jim Bogios on drums and Millard Powers on bass, plus David Immerglück, Dan Vickrey and David Bryson on guitars) then launched into 20-year-old crowd-pumper “Hard Candy.”

While the track got most fans onto their feet, it was the opening chords of the next song which jolted everyone else up from their seats, amid expressions of shock that the band would roll out their biggest hit, 1993’s “Mr. Jones,” so early in the concert.

The lead single from their 1993 debut album, August and Everything After, “Mr. Jones” became the band’s first radio success, rocketing up charts around the globe. “I wrote it in the middle of the night pretty drunk, I think,” Duritz previously told American Songwriter about the breakout track.

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Slowing things down with a powerful, mesmerizing rendition of “Colorblind,” Duritz, 58, then introduced “Butterfly in Reverse.”

“We wrote this song 20 years ago and we played it a few times, then never played it again,” he said. “But a few years ago, my girlfriend started unrelentingly nagging me about this song. She just got such a bug up her ass. And, she’s a fairly reasonable person, but that ‘fairly’ contains multitudes!”

“I said, ‘I can’t really sing it very well,’ and she’s like, ‘You’re so f**ken full of sh**,’” Duritz continued.  “So, eventually we did figure out how to play it. Now, I can’t get it out of the set. I want to sing it every night. It’s timeless.”

Another timeless offering followed as the band took fans on a musical tour of America, starting with “Omaha,” then stopping in “Miami” and “Palisades Park,” before landing in “Washington Square,” which kicked off an acoustic set.

“This is a song about home … going back there tomorrow,” Duritz said. “Thank you so much for coming out and hanging out with us tonight. The show’s not over, but thank you!”

In fact, the show was only halfway done. So, having played a string of older favorites, they launched into their latest release, 2021’s Butter Miracle, Suite One . Duritz began writing the four-track EP while spending time at a friend’s U.K. farm in 2019, then teased the new music by whipping up buttered toast on the online cooking series he shares via Counting Crows’ Instagram .

Marking their first new music since 2014’s Somewhere Under Wonderland, they performed the entire EP, from “The Tall Grass,” to “Bobby and the Rat-Kings,” before taking it back to 1993 with “Rain King,” which prompted a boisterous audience singalong.

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“A Long December,” was up next, a nineties hit partly inspired by Hollywood hangs around the time Duritz dated actress Jennifer Aniston.

“In your twenties, you have that house that everyone hangs out at, so for one summer our hang place was this house shared by Samantha Mathis, an actress who’s an old friend of Adam’s, and Tracy Falco who was an agent,” celebrity photographer and Duritz’s pal Randall Slavin told InStyle in 2019. “Jen and Adam had become friends and they were hanging out there. Friends had just exploded and was massive, and Adam was in the biggest band in the country and his record was blowing up, so they were the biggest power couple.”

“The house was on Hillside and Adam immortalized it in the song, ‘A Long December’ when he sings, ‘Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after 2 a.m. ,’” Slavin continued. “He was referring to that house on Hillside, where we would all sit on the back patio until the wee hours of the morning, talking about how everyone’s going to change the world and make great art.”

That’s exactly what Duritz continued to do with his band, who have released seven studio albums over three decades, earned Grammy and Oscar nominations, produced loved film recordings like Shrek 2’s “Accidentally in Love,” played 1,500+ concerts and weathered the storm that Covid-19 inflicted on the music industry.

The pandemic made me see certain tracks and lyrics through a new lens on Wednesday night – “A Long December’s” “ Maybe this year will be better than the last” echoing the hopes of both December 2020 and 2021. Closing song, “Hanginaround,” meanwhile ignited memories of “ bumming around for way too long ” during lockdowns.

For Duritz, the joy of being able to perform live again was evident throughout the show and his final words before bowing out were, “We will be back.”

Perhaps that was also the message behind my “Come Around” 405 freeway moment afterwards: that no matter how long the pandemic wears on, live music, bands, Duritz and Counting Crows, “will still come around.”

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COUNTING CROWS RETURN TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE WITH THEIR CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED “BUTTER MIRACLE” TOUR FOR TWO NIGHTS IN SOUTH AFRICA

For the first time since 2008, legendary rock band Counting Crows announced their return to South Africa with two performances on their critically acclaimed “Butter Miracle Tour.”  The two special performances are set for Friday, April 14, at the SunBet Arena, Time Square in Pretoria and Sunday, April 16, at the Grand Arena, GrandWest in Cape Town. Counting Crows Butter Miracle Tour follows the release of the band’s latest record in 2021,  BUTTER MIRACLE, SUITE ONE , and the successful U.S, U.K., and European tour of the same name in 2022. 

First performing in South Africa in 1999 to sold-out crowds across the country, Counting Crows returned to over 37,000 fans in 2004 before their last appearance in June 2008 following the release of their fifth studio album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings. The band’s 2023 return marks the fourth time frontman Adam Duritz, and the Counting Crows have performed in Cape Town.  

Artist presale and Discovery Bank pre-sale for the South Africa dates begin Wednesday, November 2, at 9:00 AM local time through Friday 8:59 AM, November 4 from www.ticketmaster.co.za. Sign up for your Discovery Bank Card today and get tickets to the biggest concerts before everyone else with Discovery Bank.

“Counting Crows: The Butter Miracle Tour”

South Africa 2023 Dates

April 14 SunBet Arena Time Square, PTA

April 16 Grand Arena GrandWest, CPT           

Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide for over two decades with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock & roll. Exploding onto the music scene in 1993 with their multi-platinum breakout album,  August and Everything After,  the band has gone on to   release seven studio albums, selling more than 20 million records worldwide, and is revered as one of the world’s most pre-eminent live touring rock bands. In 2004, Counting Crows recorded the chart-topping “Accidently in Love” for the animated motion picture  Shrek 2.  The instant success of the track earned them   an Academy Award nomination for “Best Original Song” at the 2005 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Original Song,” and a GRAMMY Award nomination for “Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.” Over the last 30 years, the masterful songwriting from frontman Adam Duritz put the band at No.8 on  Billboard Magazine’s  2021 “Greatest of All Time: Adult Alternative 25th Anniversary Chart.” On May 21, 2021, Counting Crows released  BUTTER MIRACLE, SUITE ONE , to rave reviews. 

TOUR INFORMATION:

Friday 14 April 2023

SunBet Arena, Time Square, Pretoria

Ticket Price: From R630.00

Tickets are available from Ticket Master  

Sunday 16 April 2023

Grand Arena, GrandWest, Cape Town

Ticket Price: From R685.00

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Last night at in Atlantic City, Counting Crows kicked off their Butter Miracle Tour at Etess Arena in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. The show marks the band’s return to touring since restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic have been lifted, as well as their first tour in support of new music since 2014. With a new EP fresh off the presses, the alt-rock royals are back in action.

Singer-songwriter Matt Sucich started things off. Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz personally came on stage to introduce both supporting acts, singing praise for them in the process. Sucich released his brand new studio album Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself back in March. He treated fans to some new songs, and closed with his signature hit “Montauk.” Sucich is an authentic slice of Americana. Hopefully the stages he performs on will keep getting bigger.

Seán Barna band took the stage next. Accompanied his stellar band, Barna brought a different energy from Sucich’s acoustic set. The performance sported catchy, thoroughly-written songs. The whole show was supremely tight.

His last album was 2017’s Pictures of an Exhibitionist . Now, Barna is prepping to reveal his forthcoming LP An Evening at Macri Park . An openly Queer artist, Sean is setting out to blaze more trails in rock ‘n’ roll.

Counting Crows opened with “Round Here,” and frontman Adam Duritz was visibly misty-eyed as he finished up the final verse. From there, the band played a balanced set of hits and deeper cuts. They also introduced the crowd to “Elevator Boots” and “The Tall Grass” from their new EP Butter Miracle, Suite One .

During the first chorus of “Mr. Jones,” Duritz pointed the mic toward the crowd and let them belt it out. Other highlights included “Omaha,” “Washington Square,” “A Long December,” and more. They closed out the set with their seminal classic “Hanginaround” which had the whole crowd on their feet singing every word.

Not to leave fans hanging around for too long, the band returned for a three-song encore of “Palisades Park,” “Recovering The Satellites,” and “Holiday in Spain.”

Counting Crows are undoubtedly one of the most important bands in alternative rock, and it’s good to have them back.

They have a stable full of songs that have stood the test of time, and fans are thrilled to be hearing them live again.

The band’s new EP  Butter Miracle, Suite One  was released on May 21. A second EP –  Butter Miracle, Suite Two , is coming imminently. Together, the two releases will combine to form Counting Crows’ eighth studio album.

Counting Crows’ last album – 2014’s  Somewhere Under Wonderland  – hit No. 6 on the Billboard 200.

The Butter Miracle Tour wraps up on October 5 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.

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Adam Duritz of Counting Crows talks ‘Butter Miracle’ EP, tricky setlists & industry changes ahead of their UK tour

2023 will be the 30th anniversary of Counting Crows’ seminal debut album, ‘August and Everything After’. ‘August….’ was one of the zeitgeist albums of the 90s with songs like ‘Mr Jones’ dominating MTV and the radio airwaves. Lead by charismatic lead singer, Adam Duritz, Counting Crows cemented themselves in the cultural window of the times. Over the years, the band have released a number of albums and stayed true to their Folk/Indie/Rock roots, touring relentlessly and never resting on their laurels, continuing to produce passionate, thoughtful and uplifting music.

A break of seven years without new music was brought to an end in 2021 with the release of four track EP ‘Butter Miracle Suite One’, an ambitious project that saw Duritz and the band attempt to connect four songs together in one suite of music. It was a triumph and served to remind us all why seven years was too long to wait for new music from this wonderfully creative band still firing on all cylinders 30+ years after their formation.

Counting Crows’ European tour tours rolls into the UK on Monday October 10th with a show in Birmingham before heading out across the nation. We were thrilled to catch up with Adam Duritz to talk all about the new EP and much, much more.

Thank you for your time today, Adam. It’s great finally have you coming back to play in the UK. It feels like it’s been a while. How frustrating has it been for you as a touring musician these past couple of years?

I mean, it’s the longest I’ve gone without playing since I started playing! I don’t think I’ve gone two years without playing a gig, since I started playing music as a kid. That was very strange.

It wasn’t so much that it was strange at the time because my girlfriend and I hunkered down during the pandemic, it was scary. We were in one of the the cultural centres of the world in New York and, like everybody else, it caught us by surprise in New York because it caught us immediately, in New York. You know, there were trucks and freezer trucks parked up outside the hospitals, piling up bodies. It was kinda apocalyptic for a while and we spent a lot of time together, hunkered down.

The strangeness really didn’t come until the pandemic was coming to a close and people started to make new plans and I started to wonder if anyone would ever be there at one of our shows again. The average band survives a couple of years – either you kill each other or people just don’t give a shit anymore, you know? (laughing) We’ve lasted a really long time but you keep wondering when that candle will burn out and if the people will still be there. An enforced break, when we weren’t able to tour and reach people and you don’t have a record out, makes you wonder what things will look like when you do try and come back.

What changes have you noticed, in either the industry or the fans, now that you are back out on the road?

There’s a lot more people buying tickets at the last minute in case a show gets cancelled. This whole tour had to be postponed once, right? People have moved away from buying tickets the day they go on sale and letting Ticketmaster hold their money for the next year!

We didn’t seem to be selling any tickets in Spain and then the show sold out, it just sort of happened at the last minute. Same in Germany. Belgium. I’m noticing that a lot more over here in Europe, there’s a lot of last minute ticket buying.

We’ve also always been careful of flight times and not cutting things too close to a show in terms of flying but you absolutely can’t rely on the airline industry to get you anywhere on time right now. It feels like every other flight gets cancelled.

One of the joys of being a Counting Crows fan was always collecting your bootlegs. I’ve got 150 CDs of demos, live shows and stuff dating back to your bands that pre-dated Counting Crows. With the advent of smart phones and Youtube, has that bootleg era now passed into history?

Yeah, it’s gone. You can get stuff online now – at places that allow downloads, which are largely officially run now, but the days of unofficial bootlegs have gone. The guys, the impresarios who made their own bootlegs that we used to call a really nice ‘piece’, have all gone.

We had a really good friend who was a bootlegger, a guy called Johnny Legs. Immer (Counting Crows guitarist, David Immergluck) and I would go visit him or he would come to the gigs and set up a kind of bootleg flea market backstage! He passed away a few years ago and after that it all seemed to come to an end.

It also has to do with people not buying CDs anymore either. People don’t even have CD players anymore, so they aren’t going to be interested in searching out rare or live stuff from a band and no-one will be able to sell them a bootleg when they can’t play it.

The ‘Butter Miracle’ EP brought to an end a period of seven years where you didn’t release new music. I’d heard you say on a podcast that that was because of changes in the industry and you not really knowing how to put out new music. Have changes like streaming hurt the band or is it that people’s habits have changed?

I think the changes have hurt everybody in that none of us are getting paid for our art anymore! A lot of the changes have been good for musicians – you don’t need record companies anymore, which is certainly a good development. There’s a lot of good things that have changed but it’s never a good thing when everybody in the world decides that they don’t really need to pay for art anymore, though. Which is what everybody, for thousands of years, has always thought about art!

The fact that everything became free for everybody has been hard on artists but the thing with us and the band is that we never had two albums in a row with the same record company. By ‘Recovering the Satellites’ there was a whole bunch of new people at the label that didn’t really know what that were doing and by ‘This Desert Life’ we were really on Interscope. By ‘Hard Candy’ that had become Universal so we’ve never really had a confident record company putting out our records until we put out ‘Somewhere Under Wonderland’ in 2012. I felt like Capitol did an amazing job with that record, the best that any label as done with a record of ours, and yet that album still kinda made no real impression.

‘….Wonderland’ made me wonder if we were still trying to release music in some sort of out-mode fashion because the label did such a good job of trying to reach people. I didn’t want to be creating what I thought was really good work, just for it to disappear down a hole, you know? I didn’t feel like we had a good grip on how to release a record any more. Radio singles at AAA radio? I wasn’t sure that was worth it any more and I wanted us to try and figure out of there was a different way of doing what we’d always done.

And have you resolved any of those thoughts and uncertainties? Is ‘Butter Miracle Suite One’ a sign that you might stick to releasing music in short blasts going forward?

(laughing) No, not all! ‘Butter Miracle’ was me getting excited about writing a suite of music. With me, once I start writing I want to make a record and complete the creative process that has awoken. I hadn’t had the urge to write or put anything out for a while until then. ‘Butter Miracle’ kinda caught me by surprise and I was so excited about wanting to do it.

I don’t know whether we’ve figured anything out about the industry as it is right now, though. (laughing) ‘Elevator Boots’ was number one on one of the radio formats in America, it was a number one hit for us at AAA radio and I don’t think the song became a cultural phenomenon like it would have done back in the 90s, right? So that taught me that you could have a number one single and still not necessarily make much of an impression, or enough of an impression for my tastes. ‘Elevator Boots being number one on the radio in America didn’t have any influence on it in the UK, which it would have done in the past, so I’m not sure we’ve figured anything out.

Does that prey on your mind or is it creativity exciting, not having anything figured out?

No, it definitely preys on my mind. I like a lot of things about the changes in the music business: they may not be better for me but they are better for everyone. The fact that you don’t need a record company, the fact that you can make records at home by yourself, the fact that you don’t need distribution is an even bigger bonus because you don’t have to pay people to print things and ship them across the country. Just being able to upload music to Bandcamp is great for everyone as a whole but not paying for music is not great for everyone as a whole!

‘Butter Miracle’ is such a terrific piece of work. Was the germ of the idea behind it going to be a long form song reminiscent of something like ‘Pallisades Park’ from the ‘Somewhere Under Wonderland’ album or was it always going to be four songs linked together?

Well, I wrote ‘The Tall Grass’ first and the next day I wasn’t sure it was finished so I was messing around with the ending, extending it and changing some of the chords, you know? Then I just sang the line ‘Bobby was a kid from round the town’ and I thought, Oh, this is going to be a longer song, like ‘Pallisades Park’. But, once I had worked on it for a little while I knew it wasn’t going to be a longer song, it was a different song that turned out to be ‘Elevator Boots’.

There was a flow, though, that linked the two songs together, that was so cool to me and it got me to thinking about writing a series of songs that did that, that were linked together. I got really excited about doing that and from that point on, when I got to the end of ‘Elevator Boots’ I was looking for a way to get into the next song.

There’s something of an English influence across the EP to my ears. I can hear Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, The Who, Bowie, the Beatles. I know people will often quote Springsteen as an influence on your work but what influence have British artists had on you?

Anyone who is a Rock and Roll fan will have had a British influence on them. There’s no way around that. When I was writing ‘Butter Miracle’ I was living in England. There’s definite Roy Harper influences on ‘The Tall Grass’, probably Nick Drake too. On ‘Elevator Boots’ I was very much thinking of Spiders From Mars and a bit of Bad Company, Mick Ronson and Mott the Hoople too.

I was living on this farm over there and one day I went down into town. I was driving back listening to the radio and BBC was playing the new single from the Bombay Bicycle Club that had a real bounce to it.There was keyboard line I really liked in it so even those influences were playing on me and not just the classic guys from the 70s. I ended up humming the melody and the keyboard line into my phone which became the basis for ‘Angel of 14th St’.

We spent a lot of time touring with The Who when we were younger and I’ve been a huge fan of The Who my whole life. I was definitely going for those power chords on ‘Bobby and the Rat Kings’ although the song does go in more of a Springsteen-type of direction at times.

Do you have plans for ‘Butter Miracle Suite Two’ in the pipeline?

I actually wrote the second suite when I was over in England after the pandemic, or rather, what we thought was after the pandemic! Whilst I was over there I sang on my friends’ record – the band Gang of Youths. They’re Australians who live in London now. We both, independently of each other, at almost the exact same time, wrote ‘Angel of 8th Ave’ (Gang of Youths) and ‘Angel of 14th St’ (Counting Crows).

After finishing their record (‘angel in realtime’), David Le’aupepe, their lead singer, sent me it to listen to and when I heard it I thought, “Oh shit, my record is not good enough!’ I threw the whole thing out. That’s the only time in my entire career that I’ve ever done something like that. ‘angel in realtime’ is the best record anyone has ever made in years and it is what my songs should be like and they’re not. So I tossed mine away.

Something I’ve loved about Counting Crows over the years and something that the band is famous for, is how you swap and change your setlist from night to night. How difficult it is now for you, with the size and depth of your back catalogue, to choose the setlist each night for each show?

It does get difficult sometimes because I really want to play stuff from every album. Some albums are harder to sing live than others too. ‘Saturday Nights, Sunday Mornings’ is a really hard album to sing live, my voice gets really tired on those songs.

The added issue on this tour is that we have a twenty minute suite (‘Butter Miracle’) that has to be played each night now too. ‘Pallisades Park’ is a 10 minute song which discourages you then from playing other long songs like ‘Mrs Potter’s Lullaby’ but we’ve been enjoying playing ‘…. Lullaby’ recently though. Then you go back and find older songs that you haven’t played for a while, like ‘Butterfly in Reverse’ and they become exciting to play again.

On top of those considerations there are some songs that are really structurally part of the set, like the first album songs like ‘Round Here’, ‘Rain King’ and ‘Mr Jones’, you know? If we want to play anything else from the debut album, do you take one of those big ones out? It’s hard and the longer we go, the bigger problem that it gets!

Looking at the sets right now. Some nights you open with ‘Speedway’ or ‘Sullivan Street’ and others seem to be ‘Round Here’ or ‘Mrs Potter’s Lullaby’. Those songs all have very different vibes for the opener to a show. How do you decide which one to go with?

There’s moods and things that will and won’t work when it comes to that. ‘Round Here’ seems to work really well at the top of the set but we’ve also been playing it a lot in the encore lately too which really seems to flip people out. We hadn’t played ‘Sullivan Street’ for a long time but we’ve played it a couple of times on this tour and it seems to really set a great mood at the top of a set.

There was a sequence of ‘Speedway’, ‘Come Around’ and ‘Mr Jones’ that really worked at one of the shows recently, it was unexpected but so cool. ‘Colourblind’ tends to come in fourth, after ‘Mr Jones’ because it provides a nice drop down but then ‘Black and Blue’ can work in that slot too. We play around with stuff all the time, it’s exciting.

It’s harder for new songs to grab some of the big spaces because we just don’t have the promotional mechanism or the cultural eye on us to reach as many people right now. Ideally I’d like to open the show with the ‘Butter Miracle’ suite, that would be so cool, or maybe ‘Pallisades Park’ but I’m not as sure people are as familiar with the newer songs as they are some of the older ones.

I love it when you elongate your songs or improvise extra bits in them, something else you’ve been famous for over the years. Does that get harder to do as your catalogue expands but the time allowed for a live show doesn’t?

I’ve sort of stopped doing a lot of that lately. I love the improvising but I also find myself, right now, really just wanting to play songs and play as many songs as I can, more than playing a 10 minute ‘Round Here’. I love playing a tight ‘Round Here’ and then getting to play another song like ‘Butterfly in Reverse’.

On this tour it’s really great playing the ‘Butter Miracle’ suite and then just crashing into ‘Rain King’ followed by ‘A Long December’ meaning I haven’t really wanted to extend either of those songs. I’m feeling the pressure, I guess, of having so many songs and wanting to play them. You just can’t do the long extended versions of things all the time – I also used to feel so inspired to do all that stuff and then I feel like it kinda became a thing that everyone expected. More than that, people began to want me to improvise but make it something they already knew, right? (laughing) Which kinda defeated the object of the whole thing. It stopped feeling as creative to me in some respects, because people expected it from us. You know, when people start to say ‘Play this alt-version’ I was, like, ‘I gotta play some other stuff for a little bit!’ (laughing)

How do you feel you’ve changed and evolved as a writer over the course of your career?

One thing that really freed me up was the working on ‘Underwater Sunshine’ (The covers album Counting Crows did) and the theatre piece I was doing at the same time. Those projects got me to think about how other people write and perform their songs but it also taught me how to write for other people and people who aren’t me. It showed me how to write songs that weren’t autobiographical but told stories instead. So songs like ‘Pallisades Park’ or ‘Elevator Boots’ aren’t in the first person, they tell a story about a character instead, I hadn’t previously written in that way.

That was a big deal for me. When I started writing the songs that would become ‘Somewhere Under Wonderland’ I initially didn’t think they were any good because what was good to me and what I knew of, up to that point, was really just first person songs about me! (laughing) I was worried that the songs that weren’t in the first person didn’t have any emotional resonance so I played them to Immer and he was like, ‘I love these songs!’

It’s just like apples and oranges, I guess. If all that’s been good is apples then the orange might seem like it’s weird, but it’s not wrong, just different. That opened me up to the possibility of writing in a different way.

This year is the 20th anniversary of ‘Hard Candy’ and next year will be the 30th anniversary of ‘August and Everything After’. Would you ever consider touring these albums as anniversary celebrations or is playing new music still more important to you than nostalgia?

I never really think about the anniversaries. I guess we did at first, when ‘August…’ was ten years old but those type of shows don’t really interest me much. The album I would wanna play if we were doing something like that would be ‘This Desert Life’. I imagine everyone else would want to be there for ‘August…’ but I would want to play ‘…Desert Life’.

I kinda like mixing all the songs up from the different albums and playing them that way.

There are a few limited tickets left for Counting Crows’ UK tour, which begins in Birmingham on October 10th. Grab them while you can.

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