WEDNESDAY 13 Talks About New Touring Lineup

WEDNESDAY 13 (ex-MURDERDOLLS) has added shows in West Chester, Baltimore and Allentown to his itinerary.

His U.S. schedule is now shaping up as follows.

Aug. 14 - Lola's Ft. Worth, Texas
Aug. 15 - Scout Bar San Antonio, Texas
Aug. 16 - Scout Bar Houston, Texas
Aug. 17 - Parish New Orleans, Louisiana
Aug. 19 - Backbooth Orlando, Florida
Aug. 20 - Jack Rabbit's Jacksonville, Florida
Aug. 21 - Culture Room Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Aug. 22 - Music Farm Charleston, South Carolina
Aug. 23 - Volume 11 Raleigh, North Carolina
Oct. 25 - Orpheum Boston, Massachusetts (w/ ALICE COOPER)
Oct. 26 - The Note West Chester, Pennsylvania
Oct. 27 - Sonar Baltimore, Maryland
Oct. 28 - Crocodile Rock Allentown, Pennsylvania

All of WEDNESDAY's headlining dates are all on sale now through EnterTheVault.com and all normal ticketing services.

In other news, Wednesday 13 was recently interviewed by Kirsty Evans by SFWeekly.com. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow.

SFWeekly.com: You've had a lot of line-up changes. Can you please introduce the current band?

Wednesday 13: Everything's great, this is like my favorite line-up that I've ever had, and I've definitely had members come and go for many different reasons over the years, and not all have — it kind of sucks because every time you get a different band member , it's way beyond crazy a lot of the guys that I've played with are guys that are front men of their own bands and they want to break up — which has been, I would say 90% of the cases with most of the guys I play with who no longer play with me anymore — to do their own thing.

Right now, the longest-lasting member in our band who's still in the band now is Nate on bass. We have Jason on guitar, and Johnny on drums. We're back to a four-piece because I'm playing guitar again, 'cause my collarbone is healed from my accident last year. I had to give it up there for awhile. I had a car accident last September, flipped my car five times and broke my collarbone, so… we were always a four-piece and I always played guitar, but I had four solid months where I had all these tours booked, and I went on tour and it never healed up, so I had to have an extra member come and play guitar and I just had to be the front man for awhile.

SFWeekly.com: It seems like you've had more success in Europe than over here — any theories as to why that is? Do you find audiences more receptive over there?

Wednesday 13: It's definitely changing over here now. The main reason is that Europe is basically all… my band prior to this, the MURDERDOLLS, we toured, we were really big in the UK and Europe, and I started doing WEDNESDAY 13 solo there first; I did that there a year and a half before I ever did it in the US. So I just kind of continued with the MURDERDOLLS, it kept going. The fanbase has been continually there, but now I'm going to really focus in on touring in the U.S. as well. I've been seeing our audiences jump up over here, especially since a year and a half ago we were playing in front of nobody, and now we're definitely getting more people. And this new album, it's definitely [getting] a lot more people since we got it into Hot Topic.

SFWeekly.com: I know you're actually from the South – where's the band based out of? LA?

Wednesday 13: I'm the only guy from North Carolina. The rest of the guys, they're all East coast guys, except for our bassist, who's from Fresno. That makes practice kind of difficult. We don't come together for rehearsal, I send out CDs and say, "This is what we're doing for the set," and everyone kind of learns it on their own, and then they come together, rehearse two or three days, and then go on tour. Basically first week of touring is practice. So we actually sound a lot better at the end than we do at the very beginning.

SFWeekly.com: What's happening with the book you were planning to release? Did you ever find a publisher? Can you explain what that was/is going to look like?

Wednesday 13: It was something I was trying to do, there was a point before I started doing the WEDNESDAY solo stuff that there was a good possibility that MURDERDOLLS was going to do a new record, and I didn't want to do music, so I was trying to find something else to do in the downtime. So I started working on the book thing and the character, and we'd do a little t-shirt line with it. And that just basically… by the time it was getting time to do it, I was doing my first UK tour as Wednesday and it was awesome, and I was like, I'm doing this as a band, and that all went to the back-burner, which is where it stayed.

Read the entire interview at SFWeekly.com.