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Be Your Own Pet

College calls for the Austin quartet

Be Your Own Pet drummer Jamin Orrall has left the group, less than a week after their Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds performances.

Orrall is leaving the Nashville band in order to focus on his own record label Infinity Cat and his band Jeff, formed with his brother Jake. The drummer is also keen to attend college.

Be Your Own Pet are scheduled to tour the US in late September, but it is not yet clear who will replace Orrall.

The tour will call at the following venues:

Detroit Magic Stick (September 20)
Chicago Logan Square Auditorium (22)
Cleveland Beachland (23)
Buffalo Mohawk Place (24)
Toronto Horseshoe (25)
Montreal Main Hall (26)
New York Bowery Ballroom (28)
Brooklyn Southpaw (29)
Cambridge Middle East (30)
Northampton Pearl Street (October 1)
Philadelphia First Unitarian Church (3)
Baltimore Sonar (4)
Washington Black Cat (5)
Carrboro Cat's Cradle (6)
Atlanta Drunken Unicorn (7)
San Diego Epicentre (19)
Los Angeles Echo (20)
Pomona Glass House (21)
Sacramento Library (23)
San Francisco Bottom of the Hill (24)
Seattle El Corazon (26)
Vancouver Richard's on Richards (27)
Portland Hawthorne Theatre (28)
Athens 40 Watt Club (November 3)
Orlando The Social (4)
Miami Studio A (5)
Tallahassee Club Downunder (7)
Birmingham Bottle Tree (8)
New Orleans Republic (9)
Houston The Mink (10)
Austin Emo's (11)
Dallas Gypsy Tea Room (12)
Norman The Opolis (14)
Kansas City Grand Emporium (15)
St Louis Creepy Crawl (16)
Memphis Young Ave Deli (17)
Nashville The End (18)

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