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.

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— 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 signing will be taking place from 6-8 PM on Thursday evening (January 23) at GuitarGuitar. The address is 104 Hagley Rd, Birmingham, B16 8LT.

More recently, the band announced they’d be signing bottles of their own brand ‘Iowa Whiskey’ at a London Pop-Up shop over this weekend, ‘Iowa Whiskey’, as seen below.

.@SlipknotWhiskey Pop-Up Store will take place next weekend in London. Limited stock of the whiskey will be at the pop-up, available until sold out.

SAT 25 JAN // 12-6pm
*Members of Slipknot will be present 12-3pm to sign bottles of No. 9 Whiskey.

SUN 26 JAN // 12-5pm pic.twitter.com/dOWVHE06Nh

— Slipknot (@slipknot) January 20, 2020

On January 14, Slipknot launched their 2020 UK and European Arena Tour at Dublin’s 3Arena. Check out the band’s full schedule below:

14/1/20 – 3Arena, Dublin.
16/1 – Manchester Arena, Manchester.
17/1 – Utilita Arena, Newcastle.
18/1 –  The SSE Hydro, Glasgow.
20/1 – FlyDSA Arena, Sheffield.
21/1 –  Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham.
22/1 – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff.
24/1 – Birmingham Arena, Birmingham.
25/1 – The O2 Arena, London.

Slipknot recently announced ticket details for their first UK run of Knotfest in August. The event was launched eight years ago and will be finally coming to the UK for a Milton Keynes show on August 22.

The gig will be hosted in the town’s National Bowl. Further acts will be announced soon. Tickets go on sale at 10 am on Thursday, January 16.

A pre-sale of tickets are set to go live the day before (January 15). Fans can sign up for these tickets through Live Nation here. Since it’s conception in 2012, Knotfest has expanded into Mexico, France, Japan, Colombia and now the UK.

In an interview with NME last year, Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan discussed plans for Knotfest to come to the UK.

He said: “It definitely will happen but it has to be the right thing,” 

Crahan further added: “Right now we do a lot of festivals with a lot of great people and you’ve got to find a time and a zone and it’s got to be right.”