Tours: Mission of Burma announce best-of, tour


Boston's Mission of Burma have announced that they will be releasing a new "best of" album, titled Learn How: The Essential Mission of Burma, on December 3, 2012. The compilation will be two discs, according to the band's website: "the first disc will cover the band's material from 1979 – 1983, while the second will include the material they have made since their reunion in 2002."

In addition, the band have some tour dates coming up; they will be heading to Europe in December, as well as a pair of shows in New York and Cambridge, MA in the new year. You can click Read More for the dates, and the compilation's track list.

Date City Venue
November 30 Camber Sands, England ATP
December 3 Bristol, England The Fleece & Firkin
December 4 Leeds, England Brudenell Social Club
December 5 Glasgow, Scotland Mono
December 6 London, England Birthdays
December 8 Zürich, Switzerland Kilbi Im Exil Festival
December 9 Bologna, Italy Locomotiv Club
December 10 Zagreb, Croatia Nkc Park
December 11 Vienna, Austria Vienna Arena
December 12 Berlin, Germany Festsaal Kreuzberg
December 14 The Hague, Netherlands Paard Van Troje
December 15 Diksmuide, Belgium 4AD
January 18 New York, N.Y. Bowery Ballroom
January 19 Cambridge, Mass. The Sinclair


Learn How: The Essential Mission of Burma
Disc 1:

  • Academy Fight Song
  • That’s When I Reach for My Revolver
  • Fame and Fortune
  • This Is Not a Photograph
  • Secrets
  • Trem Two
  • New Nails
  • Dead Pool
  • Mica
  • The Ballad of Johnny Burma
  • Einstein’s Day
  • That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate
  • Learn How
  • Peking Spring (Live)
  • Heart 0f Darkness (Live)
  • Disc 2:

  • Dirt
  • The Setup
  • 2Wice
  • Spider’s Web
  • Let Yourself Go
  • Donna Sumeria
  • 13
  • Innermost
  • 1, 2, 3 Partyy!
  • Comes Undone
  • One Day We Will Live There
  • Second Television
  • What They Tell Me
  • ADD in Unison