Bright Eyes Announce World Tour

BRIGHT EYES Announce 2020 World Tour

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Today, Bright Eyes have shared details of a forthcoming world tour, with an extensive run across North America. Full list of dates below. Tickets on-sale February 21st at 12:00 PM EST. After a 9 year hiatus, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott re-grouped to record and tour in 2020. The beloved band, whose previous nine albums are some of the most lauded and influential records of a generation, last released a new LP, The People’s Key, in 2011 followed by a remastered box set collection of their work in 2016. But, in 2019, the acclaimed trio returned to the studio to quietly begin work on new material. Tour Dates: 03/23/20 - Tokyo, JP @ Liquidroom - Tickets 05/14/20 - Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory # - Tickets 05/15/20 - Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory # - Tickets 05/16/20 - Tacoma, WA @ Temple # - Tickets 05/18/20 - Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery # - Tickets 05/19/20 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Santa Cruz Civic # - Tickets 05/21/20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium # - Tickets 05/22/20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium - Tickets 05/23/20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium - Tickets 05/24/20 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl - Tickets 06/12/20 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium * - Tickets 06/13/20 - Syracuse, NY @ Beak and Skiff * - Tickets 06/14/20 - Lewiston, NY @ Art Park * - Tickets 06/16/20 - Bethlehem, PA @ Levitt Pavillion Steel Stacks * - Tickets 06/17/20 - Burlington, VT @ The Green at Shelburne Museum * - Tickets 06/18/20 - Portland, ME @ State Theater * - Tickets 06/19/20 - New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall * - Tickets 06/20/20 - Queens, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium + - Tickets 08/14/20 - Oslo, NO @ Oya Festival - Tickets 08/16/20 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega - Tickets 08/18/20 - Hamburg, DE @ Grosse Freiheit - Tickets 08/19/20 - Prague, CZ @ Lucerna Music Bar - Tickets 08/21/20 - Berlin, DE @ Tempodrom - Tickets 08/22/20 - Frankfurt, DE @ Batschkapp - Tickets 08/24/20 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso - Tickets 08/25/20 - Cologne, DE @ E-Werk - Tickets 08/27/20 - Vienna, AT @ Open Air Arena - Tickets 08/28/20 - Munich, DE @ Muffathalle - Tickets 08/29/20 - Zurich, CH @ X-Tra - Tickets 09/01/20 - London, UK @ Eventim Apollo - Tickets 09/02/20 - Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo - Tickets 09/03/20 - Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland - Tickets 09/04/20 - Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street - Tickets 09/05/20 - Birmingham, UK @ O2 Institute - Tickets 09/06/20 - Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival - Tickets # Lavender Diamond supports  *  Lucy Dacus supports + Japanese Breakfast and Lucy Dacus support WATCH TEASER VIDEO HERE

Bright Eyes Refresher: Sometimes it feels like you hear a Bright Eyes song with your whole body. From Conor Oberst’s early recordings in an Omaha basement in 1995 all the way up to 2020, Bright Eyes’ music tries to unravel the impossible tangles of dissent: personal and political, external and internal. It’s a study of the beauty in unsteadiness in all its forms – in a voice, beliefs, love, identity, and what fills up the spaces in-between. And in so many ways, it’s just about searching for a way through. The year 2020 is full of significant anniversaries for Bright Eyes. Fevers and Mirrors was released 20 years ago this May, while Digital Ash in a Digital Urn and I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning both turned 15 in January. The latter, a singer-songwriter tour-de-force released amidst the Bush presidency and Iraq war, wades through incisive anti-war rhetoric and micro, intimate calamities. On the title track and throughout the record, Oberst sings about body counts in the newspaper, televised wars, the bottomless pit of American greed, struggling to understand the world alongside one’s own turmoil. In its own way, I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning carved out its place in the canon of great anti-war albums by being both present and prophetic, its urgency enduring 15 years later. Keep up with Bright Eyes: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Website