THE WHO ANNOUNCE TOUR WITH PRESS EVENT IN BERLIN

(VIDEO) The Who announced their tour live from Berlin with press gathering in New York for the event.

The Who announced their world tour live from Berlin with press awating the band and firing questions via satellite from New York City on Thursday (July 13). Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey performed two songs acoustically and then talked about the tour, the new rock opera, and the new album, Who 2.

The band will kick off a world tour starting September 12 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia. The tour is being dubbed “The Who: Uncut, Uncensored, and Unrepentant,” and Townshend was asked what the band is unrepentant about.

“You know the fact is, is that there has been some terrible stuff happening around this band for a long, long time. That terrible stuff kicked off with Cincinnati yeas ago — I suppose it kicked off with Keith Moon’s death, although that time The Who were in stasis — and it’s continued. What we’re trying to do today is we’re trying to get to a place where we… It’s not about the fact that we don’t have to repent and we don’t have to apologize. I think what I said earlier is probably more important. It’s really what you guys want us to do. If you don’t want us here, don’t buy the tickets.”

The new album, tentatively titled, Who 2, is set for release October 23, and it’s the band’s first recording of new material since 1982’s It’s Hard. Tickets for the tour go on sale July 17.

“Well, personally, I suppose the one word that should be up there too is uncut, uncensored, unrepentant and un-really desperately, desperately sad. Those three very brave whatever they are, adjectives are they?, I didn’t put them up there. It wasn’t my idea. Neither was The Who: The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band. That wasn’t my idea either. A lot of it is dreamed up by people who want to sell concert tickets. That’s what we’re here today to do, to sell concert tickets.”