With music videos like those for “Howlin’ for You,” “Lonely Boy” and “Tighten Up” — and, really, their interviews — the Black Keys obviously have a pretty keen sense of humor, about themselves and the biz on the whole. Maybe that’s why film director Noah Abrams is describing a forthcoming documentary on the duo to be a “buddy comedy.”
The as-yet-untitled effort will collect footage through August this year, but will be ready in time for festival season in 2013.
Abrams told Spin that the doc is “a buddy comedy with perhaps the greatest soundtrack of all time… A lot of music documentaries spend too much time trying to make people look cool. I’m fortunate enough to know both these guys pretty well and their relationship is pretty incredible and very funny.”
Abrams is a friend of the band and photographer with some music festival clips under his belt.
Abrams will get plenty of opportunity to capture the band in action on stage during their extensive tour dates this summer. Black Keys have added more stops on the West Coast, with October dates with recent Immaculate Noise interviewees Tegan and Sara opening.
Here are the Black Keys tour dates:
5/14 – Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre *
5/15 – Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center *
5/16 – Milwaukee, WI @ Bradley Center *
5/18- Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion *
5/19 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Revel Ovation Hall *
7/20-22 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival
7/28 – New York, NY @ Catalpa NYC
8/01 – Council Bluffs, IA @ Mid-American Center #
8/03 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
8/04 – Toronto, ON @ Molson Ampitheatre ^
8/05 – Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Festival
8/09 – Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West
8/10 – Oslo, NO @ Oya Fest
8/11 – Helsinki, FI @ Flow Festival
8/13 – Copenhagen, DK @ Tap1
8/14 – Hannover, DE @ Awd Hall
8/15 – Saint Poelten, AT @ Frequency Festival
8/17 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival
8/18 – Kiewit, BE @ Pukkelpop
8/19 – Leipzig, DE @ Highfield Festival
8/21 – Belfast, IE @ Tennet”s Vital
8/22 – Dublin, IE @ The O2
8/24 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
8/25 – Paris, FR @ Rock en Seine
8/26 – Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
10/01 – Fresno, CA @ Save Mart Center %
10/02 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl %
10/04 – San Diego, CA @ Valley View Casino Center %
10/05 – Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center %
10/08 – Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center %
10/09 – Phoenix, AZ @ US Air Arena %
10/10 – Las Cruses, NM @ Pan American Center %
10/21 – Newcastle, AU @ Newcastle Entertainment Centre
10/22 – Sydney, AU @ Sydney Entertainment Centre
10/26 – Brisbane, AU @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre
10/28 – Perth, AU @ Rock It Festival
10/30 – Adelaide, AU @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
10/31 – Melbourne, AU @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl
11/01 – Melbourne, AU @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl
11/03 – Auckland, NZ @ Vector Arena
11/05 – Wellington, NZ @ TSB Bank Arena
11/27 – Lisbon, PT @ Atlantico
11/28 – Madrid, ES @ Palacio de Deportes
11/30 – Lyon, FR @ Halle Tony Gamier
12/01 – Torino, IT @ Palaolimpico
12/04 – Munich, DE @ Olympiahalle
12/05 – Dusseldorf, DE @ ISS Dome
* = w/ Arctic Monkeys
# = w/ Tame Impala
^ = w/ The Shins
% = w/ Tegan and Sara