Mark Eitzel is a US musician and songwriter renowned for his solo work and as the frontman of the revered San Francisco-based indie rock band American Music Club. He has just announced that his first European tour for eight years will take place in spring 2025, with the majority of dates being solo acoustic sets but concluding with two 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.
MARK EITZEL PERFORMING AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB & SOLO SONGS
- 25.03.25 DUBLIN (IE) Whelans tickets
- 26.03.25 WATERFORD (IE) Phil Grimes tickets
- 27.03.25 KILKENNY (IE) Cleeres tickets
- 29.03.25 PARIS (FR) Life Is A Minestrone tickets
- 30.03.25 MARSEILLE (FR) Life Is A Minestrone tickets
- 08.04.25 MILAN (IT) Arci Bellezza tickets
- 09.04.25 FLORENCE (IT) Circolo Progresso tickets
- 10.04.25 BELGRADE (RS) venue TBC
- 12.04.25 AARHUS (DK) VinDanmark tickets
- 13.04.25 COPENHAGEN (DK) Hotel Cecil tickets
- 15.04.25 UTRECHT (NL) TivoliVredenburg tickets
- 16.04.25 DUDELANGE (LU) Opderschmelz tickets
- 17.04.25 ANTWERP (BE) Arenberg tickets
- 22.04.25 BRISTOL (UK) Hen & Chicken tickets
- 23.04.25 GLASGOW (UK) Cottiers tickets
- 24.04.25 SHEFFIELD (UK) Greystones tickets
- 26.04.25 MANCHESTER (UK) St Michael's tickets
- 27.04.25 NEWCASTLE (UK) Gosforth Civic tickets
- 29.04.25 LONDON (UK) Moth Club tickets | tickets (BAND SHOW)
- 30.04.25 HASSOCKS (UK) Mid Sussex Music Hall tickets (BAND SHOW)
Mark Eitzel has released nine albums as leader of American Music Club, the most recent of which was in 2008, plus double that number as a solo artist. The Guardian newspaper has acclaimed him as ‘America’s greatest living lyricist’, while Rolling Stone awarded him their ‘Songwriter of the Year’ accolade in 1992.
AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB | Western Sky : included on California (1988)
Founded in 1983, American Music Club released seven albums, with their third, ‘California’ (1988), included in the book ‘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 widely regarded as his strongest work since the 1990s. 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.