DON’T MISS COLD WAR KIDS AT HANGOUT FESTIVAL!

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7 years ago

May 16, 2018

PERFORMING FRIDAY MAY 18 AT 4:45pON THE SURF STAGE

Check out Audience, a live album featuring a career-spanning set of songs from the road and three exclusive bonus tracks, HERE.

WATCH “ORDINARY IDOLS” HERE

Hangout Festival marks the beginning of Cold War Kids’ North American tour, which includes headline dates, festival appearances, and a show supporting Jack White. Check out dates below!

Cold War Kids – North American Tour Dates

5/18 Gulf Shores, AL Hangout Music Festival

5/20 Houston, TX Love Street Music Festival

5/21 Dallas, TX The Rustic

5/22 San Antonio, TX The Rustic

5/24 Chattanooga, TN The Signal

5/25 Winston-Salem, NC Gears & Guitars

5/30 Charleston, SC Music Farm

5/31 Jacksonville, NC The Tarheel

6/1 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel

6/2 Burgettestown, PA KeyBank Pavilion (supporting Jack White)

6/3 Knoxville, TN The Mill & Mine

6/5 Fort Smith, AR TempleLive

6/7 Columbia, MO Rose Park

6/8 Kansas City, MO Coors Light Friday Summer Concert Series

6/9 Louisville, KY Mercury Ballroom

6/10 Russell Township, OH LaureLive

6/13 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall

6/14 Richmond, VA The National

6/15 Dover, DE Firefly Music Festival

6/16 Syracuse, NY New York State Fair – Chevy Court Stage

6/17 Baltimore MD Rams Head Live!

6/19 New Haven, CT College Street Music Hall

6/20 Portland, ME State Theatre

6/22 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground Ballroom

6/23 Hamilton, ON Tim Horton’s Field (supporting Arkells)

6/26 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room

6/27 Bellvue, CO Mishawaka Amphitheatre

6/28 Ogden, UT Ogden Amphitheatre (co-headlining with Metronomy)

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Caitlin Cook’s Musical Bathroom Odyssey Hits the UK

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3 days ago

May 9, 2025

Joni Jones

What do cowboy dicks, milk pistols, and public toilet walls have in common? They all find a strange kind of poetry in The Writing on the Stall, the wildly inventive musical comedy from US performer Caitlin Cook, landing in the UK this summer. After sold-out runs Off-Broadway, at Edinburgh Fringe, and in London, the New York Times Critic’s Pick returns for a short UK tour—playing Brighton’s Komedia (31 May & 1 June) and Soho Theatre, London (4–7 June).

Set entirely in a public bathroom, The Writing on the Stall is anything but private. In this whip-smart and wickedly funny one-woman musical, Cook dives into the scrawled messages and mysterious wisdom etched on cubicle walls and turns them into something bold, bizarre, and unexpectedly moving. The songs are catchy, the jokes are razor-sharp, and the show isn’t afraid to get its hands dirty—literally.

Armed with a guitar and a knack for digging gold out of the obscene, Cook crafts a genre-defying hour that’s part stand-up, part cabaret, and all catharsis. This is confessional comedy with clever hooks, pitch-perfect melodies, and enough surprises to keep your eyebrows permanently raised. Expect satire, sincerity, and some surreal props—rumour has it a pair of slingshotted knickers makes a cameo.

Caitlin Cook isn’t your average musical comic. She’s Oxford-educated, New York-hardened, and streaming in the tens of millions. She’s also collaborated with some of comedy’s finest, directed offbeat hits, and performs as one-half of the musical duo 2/3rds of a Threesome. With this new UK run, she’s not just touring a show—she’s building a movement that blurs the lines between comedy, theatre, and performance art.

If you missed her during her Edinburgh frenzy, this is your chance to catch the musical everyone’s been whispering about in pub toilets and shouting about in five-star reviews. You might come for the laughs, but you’ll stay for the songs that (fair warning) may live rent-free in your head for months.