Animal Collective Announce Additional Feels Shows After Ticketing Issues

These days, the four members of Animal Collective are spread out across the world, and it's rare to get all of them back together. But the band's much-loved album Feels turned 20 last year , and they released a deluxe reissue and a live album MiniDisc to celebrate. Last week, the band announced plans to celebrate Feels a little further, playing the album in full at a pair of gigs in New York and Los Angeles. They'll be Animal Collective's first live shows in four years. Tickets sold out quickly, and ticket-bot issues made acquisition impossible for lots of fans. So now AnCo are adding two more shows to the schedule. Those will probably sell out quickly, too.

In a long Instagram message, the band says that they were overwhelmed at the response to the announcement and that they had no idea that ticket bots would become a problem. There were apparently a few other glitches in the ticketing system, too, so some of the people who signed up for pre-sale didn't get the chance to actually buy those tickets. Regarding resales, Animal Collective write, "It is infuriating to us that there is nothing anyone can do to stop that or to set a limit on the retail price." In response to all of that, AnCo will also play Oct. 21 at New York's Knockdown Center and Oct. 26 at the Fox Theater in Pomona, outside Los Angeles.

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