Beck by Peter Hapak
Beck‘s another of the artists who had a new album ready to play live this year before lockdown hit, and he’s another who’s now moved those plans to next year.
UK and Ireland dates in support of Hyperspace have been set for almost exactly a year from now, visiting Edinburgh, London, Dublin and Manchester along the way.
“Such is the ambiguity surrounding most of Beck Hansen’s career it’s always been difficult to know whether he’s been running away from either the public or himself,” our Hyperspace review opens.
“This profound dislocation(s) has meant that whenever he appears in preparation to reboot one of his past identities there’s a wave of overly nostalgic hype, so after the first few bars of Saw Lightning, on which he and producer Pharrell Williams ostensibly give the slacker-hop of Loser a makeover, those who always felt he’d meet himself coming back the other way will have cause to think themselves correct.”
“Hallelujah they may cry. After all the diversions and back roads – including the unconvincingly clean lines of 2017’s Colors – here was the Beck that the 120 minutes generation bought into, a maverick who never belonged in the straight world, even if it was cool enough with him.”
UK and Ireland tour dates:
July 2021
4 – Dublin, Trinity College
6 – Edinburgh, Usher Hall
7 – Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse
10,11 – London, Brixton O2 Academy
