Vocalist/guitarist/producer DEVIN TOWNSEND is gearing up for three pre-Bloodstock Open Air 2011 acoustic shows, due to take place August 9th - 11th. He has now confirmed that the August10th show in Southampton is officially sold out.

Townsend recently confirmed that the show in Brighton tonight and the August 11th show in Exeter are also sold out.

Townsend's schedule is as follows:

August

9 - Brighton, UK - Audio - SOLD OUT -
10 - Southampton, UK - Talking Heads - SOLD OUT -
11 - Exeter, UK - Cavern - SOLD OUT -

Support for all three shows will be Dave McPherson.

The Bloodstock Open Air 2011 is scheduled for August 12th - 14th at Catton Hall in Walton On Trent, Derbyshire, UK. Festival details at this location.

As previously reported, in tandem with the release of the Devin Townsend Project's Deconstruction and Ghost albums, InsideOut is offering free download of a 10 song Devin Townsend compilation for a limited time featuring tracks taken from all his albums issued by the label over between 1997 - 2009. It is only available here in cooperation with Facebook and Twitter.

The tracklist is as follows:

'By Your Command' (Ziltoid)

'Christeen' (Infinity)

'Coast' (Ki)

'Deadhead' (Accelerated Evolution)

'Life' (Ocean Machine)

'Material' (Physicist)

'Mountain' (Terria)

'Sit In The Mountain' (Infinity demo)

'Supercrush' (Addicted)

'Vampira' (Synchestra)

As previously reported, Townsend is featured in a new interview with Metal Army America. An excerpt is available below:

MAA: I believe there is a companion to Ghost coming out soon on the horizon, right?

Townsend: "Absolutely! Ghost II, which in its current name is incredibly creative (laughs sarcastically). We’ve been working on the art work and I’m taking my time with it. It is essentially done and mixed. But I’m on tour and I’m going to be on tour for a long time. I want the records that I do not only from here on out, but including Ghost II to be thought out in the same way I was able to with these four records. Otherwise it would be just another disc, right? I've written a few more songs for this record so I hope by the end of the year it will be available. It’s a darker, kind of more somber take on the Ghost energy."

MAA: Will we ever see the Ziltoid character return again in some way, shape or form?

Townsend: "Ziltoid I think is rapidly becoming the mascot for what I do. It’s great for me on a number of levels I think. I love playing the character and it’s an extension of an exaggerated part of my personality that I think I felt self-conscious of doing before I quit doing certain lifestyle choices. But with Ziltoid its very creative and free. You know to be a fan of a human being is cool and everything. I know when I was younger there were certain people in bands I was really a fan of. And then as you get older you realize as you well know everybody is a human being and everybody is fallible. Everybody is an idiot trying to figure it all out. Everybody has their own hypothesis on what it is or what it isn’t, but ultimately none of us know. But everybody needs a hero too. I don’t want to be that hero, but I think that Ziltoid can be a very cool superhero because he’s from the fourth dimension and he’s a combination of backyard quantum physics and poop jokes. I think the combo of those two things for me is artistically full of potential (laughs)."

Click here for the complete interview.

After successfully completing his North American tour with CHILDREN OF BODOM, OBSCURA, and SEPTICFLESH, Devin Townsend will now be traveling abroad for the rest of the summer, playing various European festivals and solo acoustic dates - but come October, he'll be back in North America for another tour.

THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT will be hitting the road this fall on a headlining tour (supporting acts will soon be announced), so fans can expect even more Hevy Devy this time around! Dates for the tour are listed below, and Canadian dates will be announced soon. Fanclub pre-sale starts on August 1st exclusively at HevyDevy.com, and a limited amount of VIP packages will be available for each date.

Dates:

October

12 - Sound Stage - Baltimore, MD
13 - The Note - Philadelphia, PA
14 - Rock And Shock - Worcester, MA
15 - The Chance - Poughkeepsie, NY
16 - The Altar - Pittsburgh, PA
17 - Peabody's - Cleveland, OH
18 - Harpo's - Detroit, MI
19 - Reggie's - Chicago, IL
21 - Black Sheep - Colorado Springs, CO
22 - Marquis - Denver, CO
24 - Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA
25 - Slim's - San Francisco, CA
27 - Hawthorne - Portland, OR
28 - El Corazon - Seattle, WA