YES!!!

Art Brut & the Hold Steady are touring together. It’s a combination that will probably cause some kind of rift in the rock/crit/nerd continuum. It’s (as one Brooklyn Vegan comments-thread wag has dubbed it) the Singy-Talky Tour. And it’s coming to Seattle, Sunday Nov. 4th at the HUB Ballroom. The show is all-ages. Class is in session, kids, Professors Finn and Argos presiding.

Seattle, WA - Live Nation welcomes The Hold Steady to the HUB Ballroom at the University of Washington on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.

THE HOLD STEADY will be celebrating the one-year anniversary of the release of Boys and Girls in America with an extensive U.S. Fall tour with Art Brut dubbed the “NME Rock ‘N’ Roll Riot Tour 2007.”

“We are super happy to be touring with Art Brut,” said frontman Craig Finn. “I believe Eddie Argos to be one of the finest current lyricists in Rock. I believe he completely understands the place for both humor and honesty.“

Since the October ’06 release of Boys and Girls in America, The Hold Steady have proven their road-worthiness with almost 300 shows played throughout the U.S., U.K., and Europe. RollingStone.com recently included The Hold Steady in their list of “Top 20 Live Bands Right Now”. Plus, the band’s mind-blowing performances at Festivals like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, as well as their sold-out club tours, shows that fans just can’t get enough of them.

Currently, the band is in the UK, where they opened for The Rolling Stones in Dublin and will headline the Carling stages at both the Leeds and Reading Festivals. The Hold Steady’s European tour finds them performing in Croatia for the first time. They will wind up their summer with a free show in New York City on September 17th at 7 World Trade Center.

Tickets are $22.00 and go on sale Saturday, August 25 at 12:00 p.m. NOON at all Ticketmaster outlets, Ticketmaster.com, livenation.com, or charge by phone at (206) 628-0888.

A limited number of $18.00 student discount tickets are available to UW I.D. holders at the HUB ticket office.