Mark Eitzel, former frontman of San Francisco’s American Music Club has announced his first European tour for eight years, taking place in spring 2025. The majority of dates will be solo acoustic sets other than the last two at London’s Moth Club and Hassocks’ Mid Sussex Music Hall which will be full band shows.
Eitzel will perform songs from his solo albums and an upcoming new EP in his set, as well as a number of American Music Club classics that will also be featured on a new archival box set due out in the second half of the year.
Founded in 1983, American Music Club released seven albums, with their third, “California” (1988), being named one of ‘1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die’. The group split in 1995 but reunited a decade later for two further records. Eitzel then focused on his solo career, issuing the albums “Don’t Be A Stranger” (2012) and “Hey Mr. Ferryman” (2017) via Decor/Merge, with the latter, which featured Bernard Butler, being widely praised. AUK’s Keith Hargreaves wrote: “This is a deeply moving album, the more you swim in its waters, and long may this creative partnership continue”.
He has spent much of his time since then composing music for the playwright Simon Stephens, as well as working on reissues of American Music Club titles that are slated for release in autumn 2025.
The full list of tour dates is shown below and tickets can be accessed via this link.
Mark Eitzel European 2025 Dates:
25.03.25 Dublin (IE) Whelans
26.03.25 Waterford (IE) Phil Grimes
27.03.25 Kilkenny (IE) Cleeres
29.03.25 Paris (FR) Life Is A Minestrone
30.03.25 Marseille (FR) Life Is A Minestrone
08.04.25 Milan (IT) Arci Bellezza
09.04.25 Florence (IT) Circolo Progresso
10.04.25 Belgrade (RS) Venue Tbc
12.04.25 Aarhus (DK) Vindanmark
13.04.25 Copenhagen (DK) Hotel Cecil
15.04.25 Utrecht (NL) Tivolivredenburg
16.04.25 Dudelange (LU) Opderschmelz
17.04.25 Antwerp (BE) Arenberg
22.04.25 Bristol (UK) Hen & Chicken
23.04.25 Glasgow (UK) Cottiers
24.04.25 Sheffield (UK) Greystones
26.04.25 Manchester (UK) St Michael’s
27.04.25 Newcastle (UK) Gosforth Civic
29.04.25 London (UK) Moth Club (Band Show)
30.04.25 Hassocks (UK) Mid Sussex Music Hall (Band Show
And of course Mr Eitzel was a performer at AUKs 10th birthday all that time ago…