Them Crooked Vultures have announced tour dates in Australia and New Zealand for January 2010. Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones will play six shows, beginning in Perth on January 19 and winding up in Auckland on January 30. This follows on from their already sold out UK tour in December and a US tour in October. Three German gigs have also been added. The full lists of dates are as follows:
October 01 Austin, TX – Stubb’s
October 02 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
October 05 Nashville, TN …

Them Crooked Vultures have posted a snippet of Scumbag Blues on their site – another of the new songs likely to feature on their debut album, which is due in late October.

Well Sam didn’t get to see Them Crooked Vultures as they performed on the Saturday at Reading. However, in a strange quirk of fate, long time TBL supporter Gary Wade’s son Josh did do as he attended The Leeds Festival on the Friday and rated TCV set as the highlight of the day. Co- incidentally both Sam and Josh were born within a day of each other at Bedford north wing hospital in 1990. Now they are off doing the festival thing just as their Dad’s did 30 years ago.
I …

Following their appearances at Reading and Leeds, Them Crooked Vultures have announced tour dates in the UK and US.

Them Crooked Vultures, the new Dave Grohl/Josh Homme/John Paul Jones supergroup made their UK debut on Wednesday night in a support slot to The Arctic Monkeys at the 02 Academy Brixton. Along with guitarist Alain Johannes, they performed a set that included the tracks Elephant, Gunman, Mind Eraser (No Chaser),Daffodils and Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I.
The band was first seen in action on August 10th at the Metro in Chicago and followed that with appearances at Melkweg in Amsterdam,the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium and Lowlands Festival in the …

I have been to many shows at Brixton, but never has queue outside stretched further than last night. It went round the entire venue, good time to have some last pre-gig pints from the off licences we walked past. Inside there was still nothing 100 % confirming their appearance, but asking stewards if it is THEM, the odd chuckle was enough for me. The whole place was buzzing like I haven’t seen for a support act since Soundgarden and Fait No More supported GnR back in 1992.
At 19:45 sharp they …

Plenty of news and feedback on the new John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl, Josh Homme venture.

First live reviews and info see links at:
Chicago Tribune.com
NME.com
RollingStone.com