Tim Burgess by Cat Stevens
“I always knew the album should start with Here Comes The Weekend,” Tim Burgess says. “It’s a simple song, and it’s a feeling more than anything.”
The build-up to a new Tim Burgess album has begun today with the release of Here Comes The Weekend.
It’s accompanied with a video directed by Kevin Godley, who expands on the themes of modern technology keeping people together:
“This idea, about physical separation versus virtual connection, had Tim, Rose and Dan delivering impeccable performances throughout a pretty physical day, spent bending real people and live projections into a film that seems to blur the lines between joy and anxiety,” Godley reveals.
“Not that we set out to achieve anything that specific, but the improvisational nature of the shoot allowed it to emerge. Nor did it do any harm having an artist and song this bloody good to apply the idea to.”
The Charlatans frontman will play the Sound And Vision and Sound City events later this month, and has his own headline gigs booked for the summer.
Tour dates:
April
23 – Cambridge, Sound and Vision Festival
30-May 1 – Liverpool, Sound City
June
7 – Brighton, Komedia
11 – Matlock, Signals 2022
13 – Newcastle, Riverside
14 – Glasgow, St Luke’s
16 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
17 – Birmingham, Caste & Falcon
24 – Newport, Le Pub
July
14-17 – Stirling, Doune The Rabbit Hole
21-24 – Macclesfield, Bluedot Festival
November
8 – Bristol, Fleece
9 – London, Lafayette
10 – Manchester, O2 Ritz
