Beth Gibbons @ Shepherds Bush Empire Wed 16th - I have a spare ticket; anyone interested in coming?

i wd love to go to the gig BUT i'm in boston. never mind...

Sigh I wish I would have joined ILX earlier. I would have went. Am listening to this album tonight and am thinking that it's hushed beauty makes it dunno - so f'ing devasting like a folk-rock version of Joy Division's Closer.

Anybody have any news of Beth Gibbons - as-of-late?

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2zWt5Cv2XP/

she's announced a solo album!

wonderful news

great! will be hard to beat the rustin' man collab

I wonder if Marcello got anyone to go with him.

Rustin Man is great but her version of Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is often slept on. Sometimes I prefer it to the canonical Dawn Upshaw version because she sounds more raw and untutored than Upshaw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldrx0eSqV-E

oh wow

!!!

Incredible track. So good to hear that voice again. And James Ford is on one hell of a production heater right now!

hell yes.

European tour as well -

5/27: La Salle Pleyel – Paris
5/28: Theater 11 – Zürich
5/30: Primavera Sound Festival – Barcelona
5/31: La Bourse Du Travail – Lyon
6/02: Verti Music Hall – Berlin
6/03: Falkonersalen – Copenhagen
6/05: Tivoli Vredenburg (Main Hall) – Utrecht
6/06: Cirque Royal – Brussels
6/09: The Barbican Centre – London
6/10: Albert Hall – Manchester
6/11: Usher Hall – Edinburgh

Early ticket access if you pre-order album via her site:

Lives Outgrown UK and European live dates have also been announced for May and June. General sale Fri 16th Feb, 10am GMT

UK pre-orders of Lives Outgrown via the official Beth Gibbons store will be eligible for ticket pre-sale on Weds 14th Feb, 10am GMThttps://t.co/idmy952mol pic.twitter.com/OrnRHtMgPa

— Beth Gibbons (@realbethgibbons) February 7, 2024

('pre-order' but I think it said 'no purchase necessary' when I did it so maybe pre-saving counts? idk I bought it).

really wonderful, picks up right where the more organic parts of third left off. i love the recorder

lee harris from talk talk is involved again too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJeCBRhoXek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRJWVvSGIs

album's gonna rule

omg this album

the brooding chamber-pop/art-rock opus vibe is exactly what I had hoped for

yeah it's wonderful

AOTY candidate for sure. I guess Beth had more to do with the music on Third than I thought; a lot of this is the same vibe.

beautiful album

damn totally blown away

this interview: https://www.soundonsound.com/people/adrian-utley-recording-third is by far the most comprehensive thing that exists on their creative process while making third

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr1beyM48ag

moar like beth GOATbons amirite

also for serious: lives outgrown is very good after one listen, but holy heckfire is it a tough listen. not because of atonality or challenging sounds, just lots of deep emotions that are hard for me to sit with for the length of time that some of the material is asking of me. i was posting on Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man - Out Of Season but will defer to this as the proper bg topic.

really fun to see her doing portishead material. big sigh. she's f'kn rad.

I've probably posted this before but Beth Gibbons is the only "popstar" I've ever had a dream about. She was running after me at National Trust property Quarry Bank Mill. I've never worked out a good interpretation of this.