Justin Vernon will bring Bon Iver back for live dates in South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Philippines and China throughout February and March next year.
Since the release of 2011’s ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver‘ Vernon has held little interest in a future for his band, telling Triple J a couple of years ago now:
“I don’t really write songs anymore. The last Bon Iver record was a very ‘sitting down with a guitar and writing’ kind of record. I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I’m just not there.”
“I’m really honoured that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there’s only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular.”
However, more recently there has been increased activity via a new song released for the Wish I Was Here soundtrack in the summer of 2014, and other material aired at his newly curated Eaux Claires festival just last summer.
Whether he is now warming to a full, brand new studio album remains unclear.