Beck by Peter Hapak
Beck will stop for a second night in London during his upcoming European tour.
He’s due to spend the first part of July in the UK and Ireland for Dublin, Edinburgh and London shows, and has added a gig at the Brixton Academy for July 12th to go with the original night there of July 11th.
Beck is touring last year’s Hyperspace album; a collab-heavy affair dominated by his work with Pharrell Williams. “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 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.”
European tour dates:
June
16 – Paris, France, Olympia
20 – Vienna, Austria, Arena Wien
24 – Zurich, Switzerland, Halle 622
26 – Rome, Italy, Auditorium Cavea
27 – Lucca, Italy, Piazza Napoleone
28 – Brescia, Italy, Il Vittoriale
July
5 – Dublin, Ireland, Trinity College Park
7 – Edinburgh, UK, Usher Hall
9 – Manchester, UK, O2 Victoria Warehouse
11,12 – London, UK, O2 Brixton Academy