Shattered World Records

MDC PULLS OUT ALL STOPS
FOR EUROPEAN MIKEY “OFFENDER” MEMORIAL TOUR

Classic punk band MDC will embark on their 2008 European tour in late March. The tour is being billed as the Mikey Donaldson Memorial Tour and will include stops in Holland, Belgium, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and England.

Donaldson, also known as Mikey “Offender” played bass for MDC in the early 80s and was reunited with them in 2004, with the release of Magnus Dominus Corpus which was followed with extensive worldwide tours.

The punk world was shaken in September 2007 when news spread of Mikey’s death in Barcelona, Spain at the age of 46. Raised in Killeen, Texas, Mikey Offender went on to earn legendary status as one of the most influential punk bass players ever known, traversing with ease between a “who’s who” of the most notorious punk bands including MDC, D.R.I. And of course, the Offenders.

Joining MDC on this tour will be pioneering “crossover” drummer Felix Griffin, formerly of D.R.I.
Griffin, along with Mikey Offender, broke new ground in D.R.I.‘s classic Dealing With It album, which is arguably among the first to crossover between punk and metal. Having left D.R.I in 1992, Griffin had returned to Austin to enjoy a break until a recent stint with Austin’s Roger’s Porn Collection and currently neo-crossover band Blunt Force Trauma.

The tour promises to be among MDC’s tightest and most spirited to date, being a memorial and celebration of a lost but never forgotten legend, friend and musical comrade, Mikey “Offender” Donaldson.


EURPEAN TOUR DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS:


2008 MARCH

27th Netherlands DELFT SPEAKERS
28th Netherlands SNEEK BOLWERK
29th Netherlands TILBURG LITTLE DEVIL
30th Belgium LIEGE FACTORY
31st Belgium TBA

APRIL

01st Belgium GENT FRONTLINE
03rd UK NEWPORT T.J’s
04th Ireland DUBLIN VOODOO LOUNGE
05th Ireland BELFAST BUNKER
06th Ireland GALWAY ROISIN DUBH
08th UK PLYMOUTH WHITE RABBIT
09th UK HUDDERSFIELD THE PARRISH
10th UK NEWCASTLE TRILLIANS
12th UK SHEFFIELD PLUG
13th UK LONDON ISLINGTON CARLING ACADEMY
14th France LILLE venue tbc
15th France BRESSUIRE SALLE EMERAUDE
16th France LIMOGES venue tbc
17th France BORDEAUX HERETIC
?18th Spain GIRONA PUB MARISCAL
19th Spain MASNOU (BCN) CAN HUMET
20th Spain MADRID GRUTA 77
21st Spain DONOSTI SALA MOGAMBO
22nd France MARSEILLES venue tbc
23rd Italy TORINO UNITED CLUB
24th Italy LA SPEZIA SKALETTA
25th Italy BRESCIA GSOA MAGIZZINO 47
?26th Italy GORIZIA PIEFFE FACTORY
27th Austria VIENNA ARENA
30th Germany STUTTGART CLUB PRAG

MAY

02nd Germany BERLIN WILD AT HEART
03rd Netherlands AMSTERDAM TBA