Echo & The Bunnymen continue More Songs to Learn and Sing tour in Portland

Echo & The Bunnymen play Revolution Hall in Portland on 13 May as part of the More Songs to Learn and Sing tour. As legacy indie and post-punk names go, few bands carry the same mixture of atmosphere, drama and guitar-line mythology.

Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant’s work helped shape the vocabulary of alternative music long before indie became a streaming category. This tour is built around a career-spanning set, which makes the Portland date less about a new album and more about the continued life of songs that influenced generations of bands.

For a daily indie news roundup, it works as a heritage item: not discovery in the same way as The Great Escape, but a reminder of the lineage younger acts still draw from. In the same day that new artists are trying to break through in Brighton and small venues across the US, Echo & The Bunnymen show how long an independent-minded sound can echo. Source: https://www.stereoboard.com/echo-and-the-bunnymen-tickets