Governors Ball Music Festival happened this past weekend at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in New York. Glass Animals headlined on Sunday June 8th alongside the well-known Irish singer, Hozier. Performing on the Kiehl’s stage, their festival set list included songs, ‘The Other Side of Paradise’, ‘Take A Slice’, ‘Youth’, ‘Gooey’, ending the night with ‘Heat Waves’. Lead singer, Dave Bayley, jumped into the crowd while performing ‘Gooey’. 

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The band performed at the festival with other artists such as Olivia Rodrigo, Clairo, Conan Gray, Wallows, RAYE, Wasia Project, Role Model, and more. Glass Animals lucked out with the festival weather this past weekend as there were multiple calls for storms and heavy rain resulting in cancelled performances, doors pushed back for hours, and attendees demanding refunds on tickets.

The band will also be performing at the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee later this month, and the Mad Cool festival in Madrid this July.  Glass Animals’ ‘Tour of Earth’ European and UK leg of the tour happened in October and November including performances in Paris, Amsterdam, Glasgow, London, Manchester, and more. The continuation of their tour with the North American leg is happening this summer, alongside openers Sofia Isella from California, U.S., and Irish singer-songwriter, Orla Gartland.   

 

 

 

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Their tour includes top hits as well as songs from their 2024 album ‘I Love You So F***ing Much’. Performances this summer started in Saratoga Springs, New York, and are ending August 17th in Nevada. The band collected footage from their 2024 leg of the tour creating a short documentary on their tour journey explaining that “music can make people have this incredible moment of human connection and community and togetherness that nothing else in the world can do”, found on their Youtube. 

Tickets to upcoming shows can be bought here.

Rina’s live dates act as support for her sophomore album, Hold The Girl which came out in September last year. Last week she shared her latest single from her album, “Eye For An Eye” from the John Wick: Chapter 4 soundtrack.

There are special guests that will accompany her on her four-month tour and those guests are Magdalena Bay, Empress Of, and Tom Rasmussen. Those headlining shows will have Sawayama’s packed festival circuit finally filled out. The festival circuit will also include appearances at Governors Ball, Bonnaroo Osehaga, Lollapalooza, and Life Is Beautiful.

As Rina will be one of the performers at Lollapalooza, there will be a lot of Asian artists that will perform on that day, namely: TXT, NewJeans, Beabadoobe, NIKI, The Rose and DPR Ian, among others. K-pop girl group, Aespa will also be performing at the Governors Ball Music Festival.

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Pre-sale for tickets starts on Wednesday 29 March at 10 am local time and general tickets go out on sale on Friday 31 March. Tickets will be available here.

Rina recently made her acting debut in John Wick: Chapter 4 as Akira. She spoke to NME for the Big Red cover story last year about her role as Akira: “My team are all just shook by the idea that we even got offered John Wick, so I think… none of us really know what’s going to happen. We’re just like, ‘What does happen to people in movies?'”

In a four-star review, of the film, NME wrote: “Chapter 4 doesn’t exude the wheel-spinning cynicism for a forever franchise. Stahelski may traffic in excess, but at least he understands it: how choreography, performance and style can make over-the-top spectacle cohere into pleasurably overwhelming action fizz, rather than congealing into a sweaty special effects overload. He also gets that after 169 minutes, some degree of closure is appreciated. There may well be a John Wick: Chapter 5, but Chapter 4 still feels like a movie giving its all.”

Rina spoke to Sky News about her acting debut, “I actually have been doing self-tapes, when I’ve been sent a really great script and when I’ve got the time, and also when I have the energy because I hate doing them,” she says. “But I’ve been doing them for several years, and I’ve gotten quite close to getting several roles but I hadn’t landed anything.”