5/2/2023 0 Comments Bartunes live band![]() ![]() “It’s about capturing the moment,” says saxophonist and now vocalist Lewis Evans. The result is a filmed live performance, directed by Greg Barnes and mixed by PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish, that took place over three nights at London’s Bush Hall. ![]() “We wrote the new tracks specifically to perform live, so we thought it might be a nice idea to put out a performance.” “We didn’t want to do a studio album,” says BC, NR pianist May Kershaw, who is one of the three band members, along with saxophonist Lewis Evans and bassist Tyler Hyde, now taking on vocal duties. People waiting on new material have eight new, excellent songs to hear, but not in the way they might have expected. These new performances saw the band garner widespread support from across the board with Rolling Stone UK describing their Green Man set as “unmissable”, and the Guardian going on to say that they were “greeted by something close to rapture.” These performances have also attracted a profile from the NY Times, multiple glowing live reviews, and a nomination for Best Live Performer at the AIM Independent Music Awards last year.Īs the songs continued to develop on the road they decided to avoid conventional next steps. They also toured the US with black midi and headlined two sold-out shows in New York. They played to swelling crowds at festivals, including triumphant performances at Primavera, Green Man and Fuji Rock, entering a new musical phase as they navigated and developed songs that were just weeks old. All of this despite being released just days after frontman Isaac Wood announced his decision to step away from the band.įresh from the success of “Ants From Up There” and with a full touring schedule ahead of them in 2023, remaining members Lewis Evans, May Kershaw, Georgia Ellery, Luke Mark, Tyler Hyde and Charlie Wayne, now a six-piece, decided to write an entire new set of material to perform. In early 2022, Black Country, New Road released their UK #3 album “Ants From Up There” (their second Top 5 UK album debut in 12 months, following their Mercury Prize shortlisted debut “For the first time”), which was lauded by fans and critics alike, gaining numerous 5* reviews and appearing on end of year lists across the globe, including being voted #1 by fans on r/indieheads, Rate Your Music and #3 by Pitchfork readers. The film premiered on YouTube at 5pm and comes ahead of a film screening that will take place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London at 8pm tonight. Today, Black Country, New Road have premiered a live film of entirely new material taken from their three sold out back-to-back shows at Bush Hall in December 2022. ![]()
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