BIG | BRAVE – THE EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
BIG | BRAVE ANNOUNCE EUROPEAN TOUR DATES IN APRIL & MAY 2022
NEW ALBUM VITAL OUT NOW ON ALL FORMATS VIA SOUTHERN LORD
BIG | BRAVE are pleased to announce European tour dates in April and May 2022 in support of their latest album, VITAL out now on Southern Lord. Dates and details below.
On the fifth album VITAL, the core trio of Robin Wattie, Mathieu Ball and Tasy Hudson traverse minimalism and instinct, structure/freedom and meticulous timing, elements that have been the cornerstones of BIG | BRAVE’s precise, rhythmical sound. Lyrically the album explores the weight of race and gender, endurance and navigating other people’s behaviours, observation and protest. VITAL was recorded with Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets.
BIG | BRAVE EUROPEAN TOUR DATES 2022
+ Fågelle
08/04/2022 FR Dunkerque Les 4 Ecluses
09/04/2022 UK Ramsgate Ramsgate Music Hall
10/04/2022 UK Sheffield Record Junkee
11/04/2022 UK Leeds Brudenell Social Club
12/04/2022 UK Newcastle The Cluny2
13/04/2022 UK Norwich Norwich Art Center
15/04/2022 UK Glasgow Broadcast
16/04/2022 UK Manchester The White Hotel
17/04/2022 UK Leicester The Soundhouse
18/04/2022 UK Bristol The Crofters Rights
19/04/2022 UK London Electrowerkz
20/04/2022 BE Antwerp Kavka
22/04/2022 GER Hamburg Hafenklang
24/04/2022 SWE Göteborg Showdown
26/04/2022 NO Oslo Blå
27/04/2022 DK Copenhagen Pumpehuset
28/04/2022 GER Bremen MS-Loretta
29/04/2022 GER Schorndorf Club Manufaktur
30/04/2022 AT Innsbruck pmk *
02/05/2022 AT Linz KAPU
03/05/2022 CZ Prague Bike Jesus
04/05/2022 PL Warsaw Hydrozagadka
05/05/2022 LI Vilnius XI20
06/05/2022 LV Riga Noass
07/05/2022 EST Tallinn Svetaa Baar
09/05/2022 PL Gdynia Desdemona Club
10/05/2022 GER Berlin Kantine Berghain
11/05/2022 GER Dortmund Junkyard
12/05/2022 FR Paris Petit Bain
13/05/2022 FR Pau La Ferronnerie
14/05/2022 ES Oviedo La Salvaje
16/05/2022 PT Lisboa ZDB
17/05/2022 PT Porto Hard Club
18/05/2022 ES Madrid Wurlitzer Ballroom
19/05/2022 ES Barcelona Sala Vol
20/05/2022 FR Toulouse Le Connexion Live
21/05/2022 FR Lyon Sonic
22/05/2022 CH Geneva Cave12
24/05/2022 FR Strasbourg La Maison Bleue
25/05/2022 CH Zürich Rote Fabrik
26/05/2022 FR Metz Young Team Festival 22
27/05/2022 BE Ghent dunk!Festival
29/05/2022 RU Moscow Bumazhnaya Fabrika
30/05/2022 RU St. Petersburg Lastochka
* no Fågelle, plus Trialogos
TRACK LIST:
1. ABATING THE INCARNATION OF MATTER
2. HALF BREED
3. WITED. STILL AND ALL…
4. OF THIS ILK
5. VITAL
BIOGRAPHY
With the initial seeds planted in 2012, with no other goal than simply experimenting with the instruments in their possession, Robin Wattie and Mathieu Ball started writing subtle ambient/minimalistic folk songs together. When long time friend Louis Alexandre Beauregard joined on drums, the goal still remained to play as tranquil as possible. After an incident where Wattie’s acoustic guitar broke, and having borrowed a friend’s electric as a replacement, larger amps that Ball had in storage from previous bands started to get incorporated to the outfit. Now with amplitude as a compositional tool, BIG | BRAVE never lost interest in the power of minimalism and fragility. It became clear that loud volume would become just as effective as the lowest possible ones and the juxtaposition of both would become something BIG | BRAVE still uses as their main MO to this day.
After self-releasing Feral Verdure in 2014, the band had the opportunity to open for Thee Silver Mt Zion in Montreal QC. After which, Efrim Manuel Menuck found something meaningful in the members and the band and invited them to open on future shows with Mt Zion and with Godspeed! You Black Emperor.
In 2015, the band entered the studio with Menuck and recorded Au De La. With no home for the record, they decided to take a chance in writing to Southern Lord. As luck would have it, Greg Anderson happened upon their email among hundreds and responded. Since then, the band has had a home with Southern Lord Records. (Along with Au De La, Southern Lord has released Ardor in 2017, A Gaze Among Them in 2019 and VITAL in 2021).
After Beauregard’s departure in 2018, the band traveled down to Rhode Island with Loel Campbell on drums to make a first record with Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets. After the album’s release, with Campbell unable to tour, Tasy Hudson joined the ranks and the band spent most of the year touring their 2019 album A Gaze Among Them.
In 2020, the core trio of Ball, Wattie and Hudson once again made the trek down to Machines with Magnets to record their fifth LP VITAL.
Since their inception, the band has had many honours and privileges of touring a number of times in North America and Europe with bands such as Sunn O))), MY DISCO, The Body, Thou, Primitive Man and Thee Silver Mt Zion.
VITAL is available now via the Southern Lord store, Southern Lord Europe, Bandcamp and Evil Greed.
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