Beach Fossils have announced details of their much-anticipated return to the UK and EU for a full headline tour in Feb / Mar 2024. The live dates come on the heels of the news that the band will join Post Malone on a North American tour starting 8th July. The dates follow the band’s new album Bunny, which was released last month on Bayonet earning widespread acclaim from press and fans alike.
Their forthcoming dates also follow extensive tours across Australia and the US including live dates with the likes of Modest Mouse, Slowdive, Tropical Fuckstorm, Cloud Nothings, and more. Beach Fossils have sold-out concerts at venues including Brooklyn Steel in New York, The Wiltern in Los Angeles, Thalia Hall in Chicago, and beyond, and played Coachella, Bonnaroo, Primavera, and Post Malone’s Posty Fest. These new shows will mark the band’s first time playing in the UK and Europe in almost six years and will give fans a chance to hear the new material live for the first time as well as revisiting classics from their lauded back catalogue.
Dates are as follows
Mon Feb 12 UK – Brighton, Chalk
Tue Feb 13 UK – London, Electric Ballroom
Thu Feb 15 UK – Bristol, Fleece
Fri Feb 16 UK – Manchester, Yes
Sat Feb 17 UK– Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
Mon Feb 19 IE – Dublin, Button Factory
Wed Feb 21 UK – Glasgow, St Lukes
Thu Feb 22 UK – Birmingham, Castle & Falcon
Sat Feb 24 FR – Paris, Trabendo
Sun Feb 25 FR – Lille, Grand Mix
Tue Feb 27 DE – Hamburg, Knust
Wed Feb 28 DK – Copenhagen, Lille Vega
Fri Mar 1 DE – Berlin, Festaal Kreuzberg
Sat Mar 2 DE – Cologne, Gebaude 9
Sun Mar 3 BE – Brussels, Grand Salon
Tue Mar 5 NL – Amsterdam, Paradiso THT
Tickets are on sale now here.
Ahead of Bunny’s release the band shared a video for the latest single “Seconds,” alongside a video collage of tour clips from footage of Beach Fossils’ recent Australian tour. “Seconds” followed singles “Don’t Fade Away,” “Dare Me,” and “Run to the Moon,” which was praised by Consequence as “a welcome return from a band that is sure to soundtrack your summer.”
From poignant words about a family member’s cancer battle to small, but meaningful moments with friends, Bunny is the band’s most vivid, grounded and personal work to date. The songs reflect on depression, love, adventure, loss, mistakes, New York City, friendships coming and going — a mélange of granular pieces in the process of continuing to find yourself. Payseur’s collage-like lyrics communicate through tone and mood as much as narrative; New York poets like Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan, and Anne Waldman were on his desk, as was the Tao Te Ching.
Bunny continues the stunning evolution of Beach Fossils’ sound, pulling elements from the jangly melancholy of What a Pleasure EP (2011), the gritty, post-punk inspired tracks from Clash the Truth (2013), and the lush arrangements of Somersault (2017). Inspired by the psych-pop of early Verve and Spiritualized albums and perennial influences like The Cure, Wire, The Byrds, and The Velvet Underground, Bunny was produced and recorded by Payseur himself, with Lars Stalfors (St. Vincent, Soccer Mommy, Lil Peep) mixing.
