Everything But The Girl Plot First Shows In 25 Years
Everything But The Girl will play their first shows since 2000 in London next month.
Everything But The Girl (Credit: Edward Bishop)
Nearly two years after Everything But The Girl released their first album in 24 years, Fuse, the band have finally announced their first live shows since 2000.
The British dance duo’s website announced the shows yesterday (13 March). The concerts, which are not billed as Everything But The Girl shows but under the two members’ names, husband and wife Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn, will take place at London’s MOTH club on Sunday, 6 April, and Monday, 7 April.
The pair will perform two intimate live shows as a “part-acoustic, part electronic” duo, where they’ll be accompanied by Rex Horan on double bass. The duo elaborated, “No club bangers, no huge arena, just a chilled folk-tronic vibe. Two sets with an interval. Songs from both their solo and duo years.”
According to the post on the band’s website, tickets went on sale to UK members of their mailing list and sold out instantly. However, it’s possible that more shows will be announced soon.
“We loved making Fuse together in 2022, and we wanted to do something else,” Watt wrote on the Everything But The Girl website. “And that slowly turned into a conversation about playing live again.”
Thorn added, “When we pictured how, we realised we just wanted to play a few songs – including some we’d never done before – in a small club. Front room, friends and family vibe. If the shows go well, we intend to do more.”
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Everything But The Girl played their final show at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2000.
Since their formation in Hull, Yorkshire, in 1982, Everything But The Girl’s music has spanned from jazz-influenced pop music, electronic, trip-hop, and new wave to alternative pop.
In late 2022, they announced that they’d reformed the band and were spending time in the studio.
They shared the news after creating a band Instagram account, writing in the caption of their first post, “For our first post, we thought you’d like to know we’ve made a new Everything But The Girl album. It’ll be out next spring. Love, Ben and Tracey.”
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