The Super Tour

Featuring The Black Lips & Lazzy Lung

On a tour of the incredible Middle East

With stops in Tunis, Cairo, Beirut & Iraq

The Tour: The Subar Tour is a groundbreaking tour featuring two of the best young

bands in the world, one from Atlanta, GA and the other from Beirut, Lebanon. This is a

tour that is about building bridges between people and developing understanding. Too

much of the dialogue between nations today seem to encompass threats, fear mongering

and geopolitical maneuvering. That is unfortunate because the people who live in the

world seem to only want peace and harmony. This tour is one way to show that.

The Bands: The two bands who have come together on this tour are the legendary Black

Lips from Atlanta, GA and Lazzy Lung from Beirut, Lebanon.

The Black Lips have been called by many people the best live band in the world today.

They also have numerous fans in the music world including Thom Yorke of Radiohead

who selected one of their songs on his special Election Day playlist back in 2010.

Their catchy songs and vibrant live performances they have excited fans around the

world and have been featured at festivals from Coachella, Lollapalooza in the US, to

Reading and Leeds in England, Primavera in Spain, The Big Day Out in Australia and

Rock and Coke in Istanbul, Turkey. They have also played in Japan, Russia, Mexico and

India.

They are currently getting ready to write their latest album with top producer, Mark

Ronson (Adele, Amy Winehouse, Duran, Duran) which will come out in the fall.

Beirut’s Lazzy Lung was named best band in the Middle East by Esquire Magazine ME,

and also won Rolling Stone’s Battle of the Bands in Dubai in 2011.

They will be recording for EMI/Capitol Records in April or 2012 and have solid fan

followings in Cyprus, Beirut, Doha, Abu Dabai and Dubai. They are also known for their

catchy melodies and energetic live shows.

The cities: The tour will feature stops in historic, Nicosia, Cyprus, the Mediterranean

island at the crossroads of three continents, where there’s always a new world to

discover. Exotic Beirut, Lebanon with one of the hottest nightclub scenes in the world,

Amman, Jordan, Tunis, Tunisia, Cairo, Egypt, Dubai, UAE, and finally two stops in

northern Iraq, Irbil and Sulamaniah. Two of the fastest growing cities in the world and

two of the most exciting

The plan is to start in Jordan on September, then playing dates in Cyprus, Cairo, Tunis,

Dubai and concluding with shows in Irbil and Sulimaniah in Iraqi Kurdistan followed by

a week in Beruit before one final show. There will be local acts joining the tour as

opening acts on some dates as well as plenty of time for TV and radio appearances along

the way.

The Schedule is as follows:

Black Lips Middle East Tour Dates Supporting Act Lazzy Lung of Beirut, Lebanon Sept. 16, 2012 - Amman, Jordan Venue: TBA – Promoter Sara Abu Sept. 19, 2012 - Cypress Venue: Savino Live – www.savinoliverock.com Sept. 21, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt Venue: Culturewheel www.culturewheel.com/ Sept. 23, 2012 - Tunis, Tunisia Venue: Le Squat Sept. 26, 2012 - Dubai, UAE Venue: Music Room www.themusicroomdubai.com/ Sept. 28, 2012 - Hawler, Iraq Venue: TBA Provided by Kurdish Regional Government Sept. 29, 2012 - Sulamaniah, Iraq Venue: TBA Provided by Kurdish Regional Government Oct. 5th or 6th, 2012 – Beirut, Lebanon Venue: TBA Venue and promotion by Lazzy Lung

Beirut, Lebanon

Amman

Irbil, Iraq

Cyprus

Sulamaniah, Iraq

Dubai

Tunis

Cairo

The Film: We will be filming the tour and the interactions between the two bands and

local people along the way. Part of the journey will be this interaction between people.

Whether getting fresh bread when the bakery opens in the morning, or playing music late

into the night.

There is currently too much misunderstanding about the region and the people who live

there. Part of the tour is about breaking down the barriers between the great people who

live in the Middle East and the wonderful people of the US. There are too many

similarities to let differences keep us apart.

By producing a film to go along with the tour, the bridge building can continue for many

years to come. Promoting the region as well as promoting understanding.

Trans-media: Throughout the tour there will be opportunities for blogging, video

blogging and traditional articles. Vice TV and their sister TV outlet Noisey will be

sending a camera crew along to make a documentary on the tour. And there will be

coverage in each of the countries as well with such well known outlets as Kurdsat in Iraq

and other top channels.

Promotional Opportunities: One of the bonuses to this tour will be the opportunities for

promotion and cross promotion. Of course the bands will be promoting themselves and

their music but there will be ample opportunities to showcase things like regional tourism

and business opportunities.

Two years ago there was a big article in the Wall Street Journal that explained that one of

the best ways that cities showcased vibrant economies was having touring performance

acts coming to town from around the world. Nothing says we are open for business and

our economy is strong than a music tour from somewhere in the world. This tour will do

that in every stop it makes. Especially at this time, when understanding is so desparately

needed in the world.

Long Term Benefits: Understanding between people and cultures is always a good

thing. When people build friendship they are more likely to find ways to work together

and create together. Tourism is an obvious industry that can benefit, but other businesses

will be helped as well. Anytime a region puts its best foot forward it is a winner for all

people who are involved.

Both bands have demonstrated the ability to garner coverage on multiple platforms. The

Black Lips have been on network TV in the US and Great Britain, on the cover of

publications like Spin and Filter, featured in Rolling Stone, NME, Billboard, Vice TV,

MTV, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Pitchfork, The Guardian, The Daily

Telegraph and almost every other newspaper around the world.

Lazzy Lung has been featured in Esquire ME, Rolling Stone, ME as well as top

American and Canadian radio stations, including NPR in the US.

The combination of real time coverage and transmedia in real time; followed by a film

that will debut at film festival afterwards gives this project the ability to promote the

region for years to come.

In terms of the fledgling music industry in the region, this can be a start to regular tours

from acts around the world. There was a time in the early eighties that the US had no

regional music venues. It was at that time that a group of young bands like REM, the Red

Hot Chili Peppers began touring the country and building up venues all over America and

Canada. Most of those venues are still around today. They have built business in their

communities and careers for international acts like the Foo Fighters, Oasis and many,

many others.

Not only that but recently a promoter mentioned to me that South America has become

one of the top concert areas in the world for big and medium acts around the world and

that this has paid off handsomely in tourist dollars. As he put it, “First the bands comes,

then the tourists and then the businesses.”

There is no reason that can’t happen around the Middle East, Which will also benefit the

bands in the region who can then go out and play music around the world.

The film and transmedia will also be helped out by local production crews. This will

again build bridges. That will also have continued benefits as the world of film is getting

more global all the time as well. Part of the goal will be to make the entire project go

global in all ways.

Vice TV: Vice is an online content provider owned by the Vice media conglomerate. The

network produces original, short-form, documentary-style video content. Subject matter

includes humanitarian issues, music, insider travel guides, and news. The creative

director of the network is Spike Jonze. They have agreed to help with press coverage and

trans-media for the tour. The Black Lips are also on Vice Records. They also have a sister

station in Noisey TV which finishes each week in the top ten as far as web TV channels

with approximately 11% of their YouTube views from the Middle East (4.4M views)

and about 4% of our views on Noisey.com (1.3M). That means this tour will achieve

massive exposure in and out of the region.

Producer: Bill Cody has made written and produced several films including the seminal

music documentary Athens, GA/Inside-Out which will be re-released by Omnivore

Recordings this fall in a 25th

Anniversary CD/DVD package with the soundtrack included

featuring The B-52’s, R.E.M. and Pylon. His films have played at nearly every major

film festival in the world including Sundance, Full Frame, Rotterdam and his debut

feature Slaves To The Underground was chosen as the opening night film at the Berlin

Film Festival. He is currently working on a feature film for producer Mark Gordon

(Saving Private Ryan, Criminal Minds, Grey’s Anatomy).