BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB CONFIRM NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN MARCH 2024

MY BIG DAY, OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

FEATURES GUEST APPEARANCES FROM DAMON ALBARN, JAY SOM, NILÜFER YANYA, AND CHAKA KHAN

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Today, acclaimed British guitar band Bombay Bicycle Club have confirmed North American tour dates in support of their new album, My Big Day. The tour, which kicks off in March, will see the band make stops throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico including the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, the Beanfield Theatre in Montreal, and the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver. Tickets for U.S. and Canada will be available for general on-sale on Friday, November 10 at 10AM local time and tickets for Mexico will be available next Wednesday, November 15 at 11AM local time. See full routing below.

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My Big Day was released last month, debuting at #3 on the UK Album Charts marking the band’s highest charting album since 2014’s #1 UK Album, So Long, See You Tomorrow, their 3rd Top 5 album and their 5th Top 10. The album features an eclectic host of guest vocalists that perfectly encapsulates the breadth of the band’s widespread appeal, including Chaka Khan, Damon Albarn, Jay Som, Nilüfer Yanya, and Holly Humberstone.

WATCH / SHARE “TURN THE WORLD ON” HERE

Frontman Jack Steadman sits on both sides of the glass for the duration of the record, having previously produced their fourth album So Long, See You Tomorrow, and co-production with John Congleton for 2020’s Everything Else Has Gone Wrong. Additional production comes from Paul Epworth on the track “Heaven” and Ben Allen who co-produces “Turn The World On.” The record was mixed by Dave Fridmann (renowned for his work with The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, MGMT, HAIM).

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PRAISE FOR MY BIG DAY

 “A hotbed of experimentation…a creative milestone”—NME 

“eclectic and star studded”—Rolling Stone UK

“revels in electro-pop jubilance while eschewing the reverb-laden haze of previous work like 2011’s A Different Kind of Fix or 2014’s So Long, See You Tomorrow. The instruments are more concrete and tactile, sitting at the forefront of the stereoscopic field, dispersed like idyllic buildings amidst the countryside.”—Paste

“As intrepid as ever, the album is steeped in crackling retro soul, hazy Sixties folk, touches of French chanson and electronic Afrobeats”—The Independent

“Bombay Bicycle Club are willing and able to shake things up.”—FLOOD

“It’s the best the band have ever sounded…a triumph”—DIY 

“The record is full of bright, artsy pop songs that bring out the best in those guests and Bombay Bicycle Club leader Jack Steadman. It’s yet another progression from a band who have evolved at every turn, and who are long past exceeding the potential of their hype machine-backed early releases.”—Brooklyn Vegan

“they’ve thrown out all subtlety in favor of an indie-pop sound that’s bold, loud and deeply funky.”—Relix

“Their unique sound is completely unmatched—allowing the outfit to stand out as champions of their own brand of indie rock”—The Line of Best Fit

“My Big Day is one of their most fascinatingly eclectic to date”—Last Donut of the Night

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European Headline Tour 

November 13—Riviera—Madrid
November 14—Sala Apolo—Barcelona
November 16—Alcatraz, Milan
November 17—Tonhalle—Munich
November 18—Docks—Lausanne
November 19—Docks—Hamburg
November 21—Trabendo—Paris
November 22—Columbiahalle—Berlin
November 23—Niebo—Warsaw
November 25—De Roma—Antwerp
November 26– Live Music Hall, Cologne
November 27—Melkweg—Amsterdam
November 28—Melkweg—Amsterdam

2024 UK & Ireland Tour
January 29—The Telegraph Building—Belfast
January 30—3 Olympia Theatre—Dublin
January 31—3 Olympia Theatre—Dublin
February 2—O2 Academy—Birmingham
February 3—Centre—Brighton
February 5—Beacon—Bristol
February 6—Rock City—Nottingham
February 8—O2 Academy—Sheffield
February 9—The Nick Rayns LCR, UEA—Norwich
February 10—Corn Exchange—Cambridge
February 12—Barrowland—Glasgow
February 15—O2 City Hall—Newcastle
February 16—O2 Apollo—Manchester
February 18—Great Hall—Cardiff
July 12—Alexandra Palace Park—London

North American Tour 
March 4—Nashville, TN—Brooklyn Bowl
March 5—Atlanta, GA—Variety Playhouse
March 7—Houston, TX—White Oak Music Hall (Downstairs)
March 8—Austin, TX—Emo’s
March 9—Dallas, TX—Granada Theater
March 10—Omaha, NE—The Admiral
March 11—Lawrence, KS—Liberty Hall
March 13—Minneapolis, MN—First Avenue
March 14—Chicago, IL—Metro
March 15—Toronto, ON—Danforth Music Hall
March 16—Montreal, QC—Beanfield Theatre
March 18—Boston, MA—Royale
March 19—Brooklyn, NY—Brooklyn Steel
March 20—Philadelphia, PA—Union Transfer
March 21—Washington, D.C.—930 Club
April 30—San Francisco, CA—The Fillmore
May 3—Vancouver, BC—Vogue Theatre
May 4—Seattle, WA—The Showbox
May 5—Portland, OR—Revolution Hall
May 6—Boise, ID—Knitting Factory
May 8—Boulder, CO—Boulder Theater
May 9—Denver, CO—Ogden Theatre
May 12—Las Vegas, NV—Brooklyn Bowl
May 13—San Diego, CA—Observatory North Park
May 14—Santa Ana, CA—Observatory Santa Ana
May 15—Los Angeles, CA—The Bellwether
May 17—CDMX, MX—Auditorio Blackberry
May 18—Guadalajara , MX—Guanamor

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KEVIN DREW’S SOLO ALBUM, AGING, AVAILABLE ON ALL DIGITAL PLATFORMS

KEVIN DREW’S NEW LP, AGING, FULL DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE TODAY VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

WATCH / SHARE “AWFUL LIGHTNING” HERE

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Broken Social Scene’s co-founder and front man Kevin Drew is thrilled to release his most vulnerable, minimal solo album to date - Aging - available digitally today via Arts & Crafts. Aging’s sonic profile sits in a similar place as beloved Broken Social Scene songs like “Lover’s Spit”, “Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl”, and “The Sweetest Kill” – beautifully dark, richly melodic, and tinted with shades of melancholy and longing.  

With the album’s digital release, Drew has shared the video for the beautiful album track “Awful Lightning”. The video, including select snippets shot by Drew and edited entirely himself, takes viewers on a journey of human life through quick glimpses into personal artifacts, emotions, and settings recognizable to all.  

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Where other Kevin Drew songs throughout his vast and incredible catalog - both with BSS and as a solo artist - lean into the exuberant fist-pump of being alive, Aging is an album best played at the end of the night; a collection for the stragglers left when the bar is about to close; a serenade for those who are coming down; songs that are quietly sad but ultimately ruminative  and comforting.  

Influenced by the passing of friends and mentors, as well as the health scares of friends and family, Aging brings together songs written over a decade marked by the signifiers of midlife – love, loss, and illness – all while wrestling with the hard truths of aging: How do you deal with the blunt-force impact of loss? What does it mean to look and feel different than you did before?

Aging was the inevitable title of Drew’s meditative new record – because he was living everything that comes with it. Compared to his shambolic solo debut Spirit If (2007), with its 23-piece band and romantic musings, to the black-light synth-pop-tinged Darlings (2014) and its carnal obsessions, Aging’s collection of minimalist piano ballads is more contemplative than anything Drew has released before.

The themes that have preoccupied much of Drew’s two-decades-long career are still present – the power of love, resisting apathy, the pursuit of connection – but the subject matter once exclaimed with the youthful fervor of a wide-eyed idealist now carries the weight of someone trying to make sense of the world in the throes of grief.

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In 2021, Drew found himself at The Tragically Hip’s Bathouse studio near Kingston, Ont. where he had been making records for the last decade. The initial goal was to make a children’s album, but as Drew and longtime collaborator Nyles Spencer started recording, they found themselves working towards an album about getting older, pulling from a collection of songs that fit together sonically and thematically. “Pain is a hard thing to let go until you’re ready,” Drew explains. “And that’s kind of where I was at with this record. Music, for me, is a release – it’s a place where I can go and express what it is that I want to say.”

Aging finds the typically declarative Drew asking more questions than ever; late-night ruminations make up the beating heart of Aging. Even the most hopeful songs on the album sound less like a diagnosis of the times than a distressed recognition – the voice of someone who has imparted advice to people for years accepting that they may not have listened. There are times when it’s hard to know whether Drew is singing these songs to someone else or to himself. So much of the record is expressed outwardly to an audience – but given the sadness and loss at the core of the album, it’s possible these songs have become mantras for himself. 

When he sings ‘I think you’re gonna get better / I think you’ll be back on your feet soon’ on the closing track, it’s as likely that he’s providing comfort to the listener as much as to himself.  Indeed, therein lies the humility and vulnerability of Aging – an artist that has spent 20 years making empowering music and asking audiences to take care of each other is using the very same medium to take care of himself.

In addition to the release of Aging, Drew has compiled a collection of self-portraits and free verse “puke poems” into a 75-page book titled Towards Everything. The book will be available to purchase with pre-orders of the new record. Kevin Drew will be playing parts of Aging throughout this fall’s forthcoming Broken Social Scene tour.  

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AGING TRACK LIST
01 Elevator
02 Out In The Fields
03 Party Oven
04 All Your Fails
05 Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark
06 Awful Lightning
07 Fixing The Again
08 You’re Gonna Get Better

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE TOUR DATES
Fri-Dec-15 - Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall
Sat-Dec-16 - Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall

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GEORDIE GORDON’S NEW LP OUT TODAY, SHARES NEW VIDEO

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GEORDIE GORDON’S NEW ALBUM, TAMBOURINE, OUT TODAY

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TOUR DATES BEGIN NOVEMBER 22, 2023 | TICKETS HERE

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Today, Geordie Gordon’s new LP, Tambourine, is available everywhere courtesy of Victory Pool Records. The Toronto singer/songwriter who is currently a member of two internationally acclaimed indie acts, U.S. Girls and Islands, is also sharing the new video for the title track.

“‘Tambourine’ is the second song I wrote for the album that would eventually share its title. I had decided to mine pivotal moments from my past, expanding each memory into a song. For this track I delved into the classic literary narrative of the queer coming-of-age story. Growing up, I was so singularly enamoured with creating music that exploring my queer identity took a back seat. That all changed one night when a friend took me into the city to see the album release concert for the Hidden Cameras’ The Smell Of Our Own.

“The band had taken over a church, filling it with yellow streamers with explicit lyrics projected on bedsheets and masked go-go boys. I was so awestruck by the community power harnessed in broadcasting such an unabashed display of queer joy that the feeling has stayed with me to this day. I finally felt all aspects of myself existing in one artform.”

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MORE ABOUT GEORDIE GORDON & TAMBOURINE

His second solo album, Tambourine, is Geordie’s own coming-of-age story, in more ways than one. It’s the album that will introduce the world to Geordie Gordon’s depth of talent as a singer, arranger, lyricist and melodicist.

Tambourine opens with the title track, about a teenage Geordie (pron. Jordy) taking the bus from his small university town to Toronto to see the Hidden Cameras. There, the closeted teen witnesses an outburst of queer and pansexual joy, where tambourines are passed to the crowd and all are welcome to join the celebration: ‘They were an army of love / With sound raining down from above / lifting their violins / holding their heads high and proud’. The album closes with “Homecoming”, a song written after Geordie listened to an audiobook by activist Cleve Jones. “He worked with Harvey Milk, and in a short few years he went from being this hippie boy in the late ’60s to later running the AIDS quilt after losing all his friends. That song is a tribute to the ancestors for their brave service.” 

Geordie Gordon was 16 when gay marriage was made legal in his home province of Ontario. He was raised in an accepting community of hippies and leftist punks. He’s a son of James Gordon, a successful Canadian folk singer covered by the Cowboy Junkies on The Trinity Session. Geordie formed his first band as a teenager, the misnomered Barmitzvah Brothers (featuring Bird City’s Jenny Mitchell). They toured Canada and were on the cover of Toronto’s Now Magazine. They sounded like nothing else on the thriving Canadian indie scene at the time: junkstore instruments, unusual lyrics, and a childlike sense of play—because they were still actual children.

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“I had such a different childhood than most coming-of-age stories,” says Geordie. “Even before high school, I learned that being quirky was a thing. My band never tried to fit in, and yet we were embraced by older people and the indie scene. I had so many sensitive music friends that I wasn’t in a toxic area. It was a unique environment; it wasn’t very typically straight.” 

Musically, Tambourine is also a coming-of-age statement, and his boldest project to date. His first album, in 2014, was made with his brother Evan under the name The Magic. His first solo album, The Tower, was a very solitary affair and came out during the pandemic—release shows were hampered by new lockdowns. 

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This time out, Geordie is writing on tenor guitar for the first time, tapping into the folk influences of his childhood. “My brother and I were never like my dad, a folk festival singer, who goes to workshops and talks about his songs,” he says. “So for me it’s a fun challenge to get closer to that.” Geordie’s not playing folk festivals yet, but he did host secret shows by candlelight in Toronto parks during the pandemic. 

Everything about Tambourine is a huge leap forward for Geordie. The layered vocal harmonies explore both his falsetto heights and the lower end of his register. The electronics of The Tower are still present, as are the soft pop vibes of U.S. Girls and Islands. 

From teenage awakenings to the wisdom of elders, Tambourine is the record Geordie Gordon was born to make. And he’s just getting started. 

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TOUR DATES
11/22 - Toronto, ON - The Burdock
11/24 - Guelph, ON - Silence
11/26 - Hamilton, ON - Into The Abyss
12/02 - Peterborough, ON - Sadleir House
12/03 - Montreal, QC - Ursa w/ L CON

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TAMBOURINE TRACKLIST
01 Tambourine
02 Spinning Wheel
03 Brilliant Dawn
04 Long, Long
05 Obelisk
06 Grey Town
07 Soul Promise
08 Love is a Feel
09 Life Line
10 Heart Murmur
11 The Thought
12 Homecoming

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