Machine Head to Hit the Road for This Year’s ‘Electric Happy Hour’ Tour This May

Months after the release of their latest album ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN, Machine Head announced that they’ll be taking their show on the road for their “Electric Happy Hour” tour. Set to kick off on May 15 in Ventura, California, the 18-date trek will travel as far east as Pittsburgh, with stops all over a large swathe of the U.S. before coming to a close in Los Angeles on June 9.

Machine Head frontman and founder Robb Flynn said he was excited to get back on the road for another set of “intimate” shows that the fans have come to expect from Machine Head over the years.

“It makes me super proud that we have stayed the path playing these intimate venues doing 2 and 1/2 to 3 hour ‘Evening With-style shows’ for the last 8 years. These shows are incredibly rewarding for us as musicians and to people who come out to just go fucking nuts with us. Eight years ago the idea was to provide our people with an experience no other metal band was/is doing right now, and somehow this crazy idea stuck! Me personally… I’m getting really bored of going to see a band headline for 1 hour and 5 minutes, or trudge 50 miles down to the amphitheater to pay $40 for parking and $15 bucks for beer to see a show, so being able to offer something unique in this day and age feels really good.

“We’re especially looking forward to the EHH format with Sir Vogg joining us on this upcoming tour. In reality, I see it becoming even a bit more free-form, you might get 5 songs off of The Blackening, you might get 5 songs off of Burn My Eyes, you might get 5 cover songs! The setlist has changed a little from day to day, and the beer always flows, so come down a bang with us for Electric Happy Hour (Live)!”

According to the band, there will be additional stops added to the tour at a later date, so the tour’s scope is likely to get bigger.

In addition to general admission tickets, the band is offering two “extremely limited” VIP packages. The platinum “soundcheck” package will set you back around $150, while the gold VIP tour package will cost about $120, though prices will vary at each venue. The specifics of what either VIP package will bring you is below:

Tickets will go on sale to the public this Friday at 10 a.m. local time, with various pre-sales starting as soon as tomorrow. You can find more ticketing information over at Machine Head’s tour website.

So if you want to catch this year’s “Electric Happy Hour” tour, check out the confirmed dates below, since they might hit a venue near you:

Confirmed dates for MACHINE HEAD‘s U.S. Summer 2023 tour are:
5/15/2023  Majestic Ventura Theatre – Ventura, CA
5/17/2023  Virginia St Brewhouse – Reno, NV
5/19/2023  Pub Station – Billings, MT
5/21/2023  Wooly’s – Des Moines, IA
5/22/2023  The Art Theater – Hobart, IN
5/24/2023  The Signal -Chattanooga, TN
5/25/2023  Mercury Ballroom – Louisville, KY
5/27/2023  Piere’s – Ft. Wayne, IN
5/28/2023  ML Metal Fest – Milwaukee, WI
5/30/2023  Elevation – Grand Rapids, MI
5/31/2023  Spiral Hall – Pittsburgh, PA
6/01/2023  Majestic – Detroit, MI
6/03/2023  Bottleneck – Lawrence, KS
6/04/2023  Slowdown – Omaha, NE
6/06/2023  Summit -Denver, CO
6/07/2023  Mesa Theater – Grand Junction, CO
6/08/2023  Orpheum Theater – Flagstaff, AZ
6/09/2023  The Belasco – Los Angeles, CA