JUST ANNOUNCED@buckleyxbutler UNPLUGGED + SIGNING

The vital folk duo of Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler will perform songs from their Mercury Prize shortlisted album ‘For All Our Days That Tear the Heart’, out June 17th via @emirecords.

TICKETShttps://t.co/ABeMIiRiku pic.twitter.com/aLZF2IfTiJ

— Rough Trade (@RoughTrade) August 18, 2022

Their album was nominated along with offerings from Little Simz, Sam Fender, Harry Styles, Nova Twins, Self Esteem, Wet Leg, Joy Crookes, Fergus McCreadie, Gwenno, Kojey Radical and Yard Act. Asked what it was about All Our Days That Tear the Heart that got them shortlisted for the prize, Buckley told NME: “I don’t think you can ever be objective from the inside out. It’ll probably be 20 years down the line and we’ll put the album on for the first time in 20 years and be like, ‘Oh, that’s what it was!’ But I don’t know – it’s nothing to do with me!”

In a statement reported by NME at the time of the release of the first single from the album, “The Eagle And The Dove”, the duo revealed the genesis of their collaboration: “It all started with a FaceTime call from Butler’s North London kitchen to Buckley’s mountaintop residence in County Kerry, with their friendship growing from an unlikely shared love of Killarney and the small island of Valentia where Butler would go on holiday as a boy.

The statement continued: “Buckley had been listening to ‘Old Wow’ by Sam Lee, produced by Bernard, in the downtime between rehearsals for the National Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet. Butler had seen Jessie perform a song on an American chat show in promotion of 2018’s Wild Rose”.

Talking about hearing Buckley singing, Butler told NME, “I remember clocking just how much character there was in her voice and how freely she expressed it.” The musician finished talking about the album, “More than anything, I wanted it to be joyous – properly joyous – because there is such joy in Jessie, there really is. In spite of the darkness and the intensity in these songs, I’m just flying when I listen back to them.”

Buckley chimed in: “Right now, I feel like I’ll never make another album again, because I can’t imagine another album happening the way this one did. It’s amazing that it even happened once. This obscure, organic, odd little thing that just found us.”

Butler and Buckley will also be playing at Whitley Bay Playhouse on August 25, tickets are available here.

Upcoming shows:
24/08/2022 – Rough Trade West – London
25/08 – Whitley Bay Playhouse – Whitley Bay

The venue is set to be SiriusXM’s new West Coast studio, The Garage. Intended to be an acoustic set, unnamed special musical acts will be supporting frontman Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland.

Coldplay will also take part in a Q&A session from those in attendance after the set. SiriusXM and Pandora subscribers can win tickets by taking part in an email invite from XM, or alternatively, via Pandora listening histories.

For those who’ll miss out, the acoustic set is being broadcast live at 7 p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET on SiriusXM’s The Spectrum, (Channel 28)

Alt Nation will be repeating the set via Channel 36.

Coldplay’s latest album, ‘Everyday Life’ received four of five stars in an NME review. The double album was released on November, 22 and hailed as “a confounding experiment from a deceptively forward-thinking band.”

The review summarised that ‘Everyday Life’ regularly steps to the left-field, proving that Coldplay are more adventurous than they’re often given credit for.”

Recently, Coldplay decided to search for ways to make touring more sustainable and less harmful against the environment. Chris Martin said, “We’re taking time to see how our tour can be actively beneficial…All of us have to work out the best way of doing our job.”

It has been Martin’s ambition to ensure all future tours “have a positive impact.”

He further said: “Our next tour will be the best possible version of a tour like that [their last world tour] environmentally. We would be disappointed if it’s not carbon neutral.” 

Coldplay released the music video for ‘Daddy’ in November. It was a collaboration between the band and Aardman Animations, the company behind Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run. The music video was a combination of live-action puppetry, digitally painted sets, and 2D animation.