David Byrne & St. Vincent have announced details of a long-awaited European tour, their first since releasing their collaborative album, Love This Giant last year. The duo's seventeen-date tour include a headline appearance at End Of The Road Festival and three UK shows in London, Birmingham and Glasgow.
David Byrne & St. Vincent will hit the road together again this summer for two months of North American dates. The tour kicks off with a two-night stand at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ, June 11-12, and includes a stop at Bonnaroo on 16th June. See below for dates, and watch NPR's gorgeous live concert broadcast here.
Called "marvelous" by the New Yorker and "magical" by NPR, the duo's collaborative album, Love This Giant (4AD / Todo Mundo), and tour last year earned rave reviews...
David Byrne & St. Vincent's first record together, Love This Giant, was released on 10th September.
The album developed like many a New York City-bred friendship. Both parties are kind of hazy about how it began, but after a couple of semi-chance encounters, David Byrne and Annie Clark, who records and performs as St. Vincent, embarked upon a creative dialogue that has flourished over the last three years. David Byrne’s own boundary-erasing approach to pop music had arguably laid a broad foundation for a new generation of independent-minded artists in Brooklyn and beyond, including Clark, who’d been constructing bedroom recordings for several years before publicly assuming the moniker of St. Vincent.
David Byrne & St. Vincent's Love This Giant is out this week, available on CD, LP and digital download.
Love This Giant developed like many a New York City-bred friendship. Both parties are kind of hazy about how it began, but after a couple of semi-chance encounters, David Byrne and Annie Clark, who records and performs as St. Vincent, embarked upon a creative dialogue that has flourished over the last three years. David Byrne’s own boundary-erasing approach to pop music had arguably laid a broad foundation for a new generation of independent-minded artists in Brooklyn and beyond, including Clark, who’d been constructing bedroom recordings for several years before publicly assuming the moniker of St. Vincent.
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David Byrne & St. Vincent are today debuting the video for 'Who', the first single from their new album Love This Giant (9/11, 4AD/Todo Mundo). Shot by Danish director Martin de Thurah, the black and white video finds Byrne and St. Vincent (AKA Annie Clark) dancing down a country road. Watch it out below or here.
NPR (US) and the Guardian (R.O.W.) are also offering an exclusive stream of the full all week. Listen to NPR here and the Guardian here.
Recorded over two years largely at Water...