You asked for a McPick 2. You're getting a McPick Tour.
Mac Sabbath, everyone's favorite McDonald's-themed Black Sabbath tribute band, is headed back on the road this winter, and they are taking the rather-timely Galactic Empire, a Star Wars-themed metal band, out on the road with them. You'll recall that Mac Sabs sold out the Middle East Downstairs back in March 2016.
This time around, you'll have to travel a little bit further out from Boston's city line, as the two bands' "I Got A Bad Feeling About This Tour" hits Worcester's Palladium on March 9. Mac Sabbath is also touring behind their first bit of recorded music, the single "Pair-A-Buns," released via flexi-disc and coloring book.
Last year, we caught up with Mac Sabbath to get their origin story.
“It was just an immediate cult following,” said "manager" Mike Odd in a Vanyaland interview. “We didn’t expect it to go so fast, we didn’t know what to do with it. We booked a show at a grammar school Halloween party, and it was literally middle school children watching Mac Sabbath, and it was great! I thought, beforehand, ‘This is either going to be great or the worst thing ever’ -- and it worked. And then we’d go at night and play for drunks, and they loved it."
Odd added: “Someone told me recently that Mac Sabbath isn’t the band we need, but it’s the band we deserve, which is a statement that definitely works for us on several levels. We just kind of want to keep this thing going and see what happens -- but like the show at the middle school, we keep constantly thinking ‘This is either going to be great or the worst thing ever!’”
Check out all Mac Sabbath's dates below, as well as Eddy Leiva's full gallery from that Mid East gig. Because one can't fully appreciate Mac Sabbath without seeing it.
Mac Sabbath Solo:
February 8 – Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole
February 11 – Kansas City, MO @ Knuckleheads
February 13 – St. Louis, MO Ready Room
February 14 – Newport, KY @ Southgate House Revival
Mac Sabbath “I Got A Bad Feeling About This Tour” with Galactic Empire
February 15 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
February 16 – Pontiac, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom
February 17 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
February 18 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave
February 20 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
February 21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
February 23 – Portland, OR @ Analog Theater
February 24 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
February 26 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
March 2 – Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live
March 3 – Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar & Grill
March 4 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
March 6 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
March 8 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
March 9 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
March 10 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat
March 11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bazaar
March 12 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls
Mac Sabbath Solo
March 13 – Stanhope, NJ @ Stanhope House
March 14 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Shaka’s Live
March 15 – Hall Durham, NC @ Motorco Music
March 16 – Knoxville, TN @ The Concourse
March 17 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
March 18 – New Orleans, LA @ Southport Music Hall
