Big Thief live in Bristol (Jessica Bartolini for Live4ever)
Big Thief have scheduled a return to the UK next year for shows in Manchester and London.
Fresh from releasing their latest album Capacity in June, the band have readied gigs at the Gorilla in Manchester on April 4th 2018 and at London KOKO the following night. These will follow a November tour of the UK which is due to start in Bristol.
We caught the band live during one of their last visits to Manchester, finding them ready to ‘share an experience with like-minded, passionate people‘:
“Adrianne Lenker‘s impassioned and aching vocals are haunting. Filling this small, smelly basement with a sense of utter heartbreak and foreboding. The audience and the band hang on her every movement, following her every gesture and nuance. She sings songs with sincerity; there’s no irony or melodrama. Just brutal, gut-wrenching honesty, or nothing at all.”
“In fact, they seem less like songs, more like painful moments captured and now unbottled. Songs like Real Love make you wonderfully uncomfortable. The tension in them is palpable and deliciously tingly.”
UK tour dates:
November 2017
1 – Bristol, Thekla
2 – Birmingham, Hare And Hounds
3 – Manchester, Deaf Institute
4 – Newcastle, Think Tank
6 – Glasgow, CCA
8 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
9 – Brighton, Patterns
10 – London, Islington Assembly Hall
April 2018
4 – Manchester, Gorilla
5 – London, KOKO