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Posted on May 19, 2008 in Tour

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Plastic Tree has announced the dates and locations for their summer tour which starts in August and covers nine places around Japan!

The tour is called 【ステレオ蝙蝠族】 (Stereo Kawahoriszoku) and the details are:
August 09th @ Namba Hatch
 August 10th @ Okayama Crazy Mama Kingdom
 August 12th @ Nagoya Diamond Hall
 August 20th @ Okinawa Sakurasaku Central
 August 23rd @ Fukuoka DRUM LOGOS
 August 24th @ Nagasaki Be-7
 August 26th @ Zepp SENDAI
 August 28th @ Sapporo PENNY LANE24
 September06th @ Tokyo CB Hall

The lives all cost 4800 yen or 5300 yen at the door and tickets go on sale starting June 28th.

Source: BMA, OHP

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  • Ku: This is extremely disappointing to me. I adore Calmando Qual but Kiwamu doesn’t deserve...
  • Jinx: Damn. Not another one.
  • Lara: I have 15 cats ^ ^
  • Lara: There music is really good, quite heavy rock ^ ^
  • Ann: Aaaaah, i love Suicide Ali AND i also love Calmando Qual. After GPKism came to South...
  • nyuh: interesting indeeeeed o____O
  • Noora: Awesome, awesome news!!!
  • K: Yap, it’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ style… great. Not the boring...
  • Shizuka: Someone watched the new Alice movie too often huh? XD Tak looks so cool in that pic :D

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