Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced an 18-date fall North American tour throughout the U.S. and Canada in November. This is in addition to the U.K./EU tour dates that Godspeed You! Black Emperor have on the books. Although the band recently debuted three new songs during a live concert, their most recent record is G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
Regarding G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! the band states:
“We wrote it on the road mostly. when that was still a place, and then recorded it in masks later, distanced at the beginning of the second wave. It was autumn, and the falling sun was impossibly fat and orange. We tried to summon a brighter reckoning there, bent beneath varied states of discomfort, worry and wonderment.
“We fired up the shortwave radios again, for the first time in a long time, and found that many things had changed. The apocalypse pastors were still there, but yelling END TIMES NOW where they once yelled “end times soon,” and the transmission-detritus of automated militaries takes up more bandwidth now,
so that a lot of frequencies are just pulses of rising white static, digital codexes announcing the status of various watching and killing machines. And the ham-radio dads talk to each other all night long about their dying wives and what they ate for lunch and what they’ll do with their guns when antifa comes.”“This record is about all of us waiting for the end, all current forms of governance are failed. This record is about all of us waiting for the beginning, and is informed by the following demands:
Empty the prisons.
Take power from the police and give it to the neighborhoods that they terrorize.
End the forever wars and all other forms of imperialism.
Tax the rich until they’re impoverished.“Much love to all the other lost and lovely ones; these are death-times and our side has to win. We’ll see you on the road once the numbers fall.”
UK/EU Tour Dates:
27 Sep 2024 • Dublin IE • National Stadium
29 Sep 2024 • London UK • Troxy
30 Sep 2024 • Glasgow, UK • Barrowlands
01 Oct 2024 • Manchester UK • Ritz
02 Oct 2024 • Bristol UK • Marble Factory
03 Oct 2024 • Coventry UK • The Empire
04 Oct 2024 • Tourcoing FR • Le Grand Mix
05 Oct 2024 • Esch-Alzette LU • Kufa
06 Oct 2024 • Paris FR • Le Trianon
08 Oct 2024 • Nantes FR • Stereolux
09 Oct 2024 • Nancy FR • L’Autre Canal (Jazz Pulsation Festival)
10 Oct 2024 • Zürich CH • Volkshaus
11 Oct 2024 • Lausanne CH • Les Docks
12 Oct 2024 • Frankfurt DE • Zoom
14 Oct 2024 • Berlin DE • Huxleys
15 Oct 2024 • Amsterdam NE • Paradiso
16 Oct 2024 • Brussels BE • AB
18 Oct 2024 • Athens GR • Floyd
North American tour dates:
04 Nov 2024 • Hamilton ON • Bridgeworks
05 Nov 2024 • Toronto ON • The Concert Hall
06 Nov 2024 • London ON • London Music Hall
07 Nov 2024 • Grand Rapids MI • Elevation
08 Nov 2024 • Chicago IL • The Salt Shed
09 Nov 2024 • St Paul MN • Palace Theater
11 Nov 2024 • Lawrence KS • Liberty Hall
12 Nov 2024 • Fayetteville AR • George’s Majestic Lounge
13 Nov 2024 • Nashville TN • The Basement East
14 Nov 2024 • Knoxville TN • Bijou Theater
15 Nov 2024 • Atlanta GA • The Masquerade
16 Nov 2024 • Charleston SC • The Music Farm
17 Nov 2024 • Saxapahaw NC • Haw River Ballroom
19 Nov 2024 • Washington DC • 9:30 Club
21 Nov 2024 • Brooklyn NY • Pioneerworks
22 Nov 2024 • Norwalk CT • District Music Hall
23 Nov 2024 • Boston MA • Roadrunner
24 Nov 2024 • Philadelphia PA • Union Transfer
Photo courtesy of Godspeed You! Black Emperor
