Instead of all that tedious mucking about with airports and customs, and thus bypassing all the costs incurred by touring as relative unknowns, not to mention avoiding the need to scrounge sofa-space from previously unknown hosts; from the comfort of their own homes, Candy Claws are letting their songs struggle with time zones and currencies instead.
The tour consists of using a network of blogs and websites to host specific songs on specific days - in their own words:
We will be touring for our latest album, "In the Dream of the Sea Life."
This tour shall happen online, in the form of videos posted to music blogs of different cities and towns across the entire planet. The first ten dates will feature live footage of acoustic versions of each song on the album. The last ten dates will debut brand new music videos for each song.
So not only is the usual geographical zig-zag maintained in the true spirit of touring, but in an improvement on the more common model ie a real-time live show by actual people, the event for each date stays in place, to be revisited as and when until the hosting site gets bored or something.
This idea is either a) very clever or b) rubbish, and I can find arguments for both, but you will have to discuss those amongst yourselves, as I'm not getting into all that right now. I will offer tentative support for what is quite a funny idea - the online tour has been snowed in on day 6 - by pointing you here, and showing this, because it's good, which despite all of the above, is the main thing:
Catamaran from Candy Claws on Vimeo.
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