Yo La Tengo have announced November UK shows. The dates will commence in Bristol at SWX on November 16th, followed by a performance in Canterbury at Gulbenkian on November 17th, before wrapping up in London on November 19th at EFG London Jazz Festival. These will mark the band’s first UK appearances since 2019. A full list of upcoming tour dates can be found below.
The new UK dates will come on the heels of the first anniversary of the band’s latest effort, Sleepless Night EP. The tracks on Sleepless Night were initially released as one side of an LP included within a limited-edition catalogue (published by LACMA and DelMonico Books/Prestel) for the LACMA exhibition, Yoshitomo Nara, the first international retrospective for the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959). A longtime YLT fan, Nara worked in collaboration with the group -- Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, and James McNew -- to choose the EP’s songs.
Last year the band also released a collection titled We Have Amnesia Sometimes, available digitally through Matador and physically via the band’s Egon label, featuring five instrumental compositions that Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, and James McNew recorded over 10 days in late April and early May 2020 during socially distanced sessions at their rehearsal space in Hoboken, NJ.
Tour Dates:
Sun May 29 – Tivoli, NY @ Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
Tue Nov 16 – Bristol, UK @ SWX (tickets)
Wed Nov 17 – Canterbury, UK @ Gulbenkian (tickets)
Fri Nov 19 – London, UK @ EFG London Jazz Festival at Royal Festival Hall (tickets)
