Today the acclaimed American comedian, writer and musician Tim Heidecker has announced details of the first UK tour of his hugely successful ‘No More Bullshit’ stand-up show, as well as The Very Good Band, presenting a two-act evening of his comedy and music.
Following on from a mammoth USA summer tour that saw him perform his much-loved, multi-faceted show across more than 30 dates, delighting audiences with his vibrant, hilarious and profound storytelling and captivating musicianship, Heidecker now brings this experience to the UK in March 2023, with stops in London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Nottingham, Brighton, Bristol and Glasgow, as well as Dublin, Oslo and Sweden.
The tour announcement is accompanied by the release today of his Live EP ‘Boulder’, containing four tracks captured during his August show at Boulder Theatre in Boulder, Colorado. The performance is live and untouched, and gives a window into the energy and musicality on stage every night of the USA tour.
From the raucous, rollocking opener “Property” and the country-inflected “Backwards”, to the heartfelt, keys-driven ballad “Work From Home” and stirring, soulful, harmony-laden “Stupid Kid”, the EP is revealing look into Heidecker’s enthralling, feel-good songwriting and stage presence provides a captivating glimpse into what UK audiences can expect from the forthcoming shows.
Speaking about the upcoming tour, Tim Heidecker said: "It’s been over five years since I’ve been to the UK and I’m so excited to bring my No More Bullshit/Very Good Band Show across the pond! This summer’s US tour was one of the most fun and fulfilling experiences of my life, and now me and the Very Good Band get to do it again with you!”
The UK tour and Live EP release mark another chapter in a busy and fruitful period for Heidecker, who also released the new album ‘High School’ in June, also on Spacebomb Recordings. Produced by Heidecker, Drew Erickson, Eric D. Johnson and Mac DeMarco, ‘High School’ sees Heidecker emerging as an increasingly playful and poignant story teller, infusing childhood tales with new gravity.
Since 2016, Tim Heidecker has chronicled the annals of adulthood on a series of supreme singer-songwriter albums. The crushing devastation of divorce and the existential malaise of middle-age, the minutiae of home ownership and the ritual of family vacation, child rearing and global warming: Heidecker has handled it all with humor and heart. With ‘High School’ he turns to new inspirations, mining a pivotal lodestar of human development — that’s right, High School.
After initial and fruitful sessions with Jonathan Rado, Heidecker started recording tunes with DeMarco and Erickson, who had also worked on 2020’s collaboration with Weyes Blood, Fear of Death. At DeMarco’s studio, they added drum machines and synths and sidewinding solos to Heidecker’s big strummed chords. Johnson (Bonny Light Horseman, Fruit Bats) helped Heidecker finesse the tunes even more, making the music as rich as the feelings. Kurt Vile contributed to one song, as well. Through all those sessions, it slowly became clear: Heidecker was writing not only about the adventures and misadventures of life as a Pennsylvania teen in the early ’90s, but also how it felt to lose a juvenile sense of mystery and possibility as an adult. He was writing about high school — and, really, the way it helped shape everything else.
Back at Pennsylvania’s Allentown Central Catholic High School, Heidecker dreamed of making it with one of his many rock bands — Time and Other Things, Shaggy’s Beltbuckle, and (incredibly) The Pulsating Libidos. Two years shy of his graduating class’ 30th anniversary, Heidecker admits he had little of substance to say when he was 17, like all but the rarest of precocious minds. In college, though, he found the friends with whom he built his comedy career, largely apart from music and without much thought for his time back at Central Catholic. He was focused on his future. It is fitting, then, that as Heidecker has become such a delightful singer-songwriter and collaborator, he returns to the first scene of his time as a musician. Maybe he’s right — he didn’t have anything to say or sing about life back then. But across the earnest and amusing High School, he finds plenty to say about those weird and wonderful and ordinary times.
Heidecker’s “An Evening with Tim Heidecker” stand up special has prompted publications like Vulture to dub him “the poet laureate of delusional assholes.” Truly, the “Tim Heidecker” of stand-up comedy is the epitome of a “‘truth-telling’ comic with none of the Jonatalent, but all of the narcissism and aggression” (Vulture). The second half of the show features Heidecker, the songwriter, musician and performer. This is Tim Heidecker without the quotes around his name, a representation of a talented and prolific songwriter who never eschews his natural inclination towards humor, but where there’s always something deeper and more real for listeners to sink their teeth into. Heidecker (guitar, vocals) and the Very Good Band, Vic Berger (keys), Josh Adams (drums), Eliana Athayde (bass, vocals) and Catfish Connor (lead guitar, pedal steel), will play songs from the entire Tim Heidecker catalogue.
Tour dates 2023:
16th March - The Brudenell, Leeds
17th March - New Century, Manchester
19th March - The Mill, Birmingham
20th March - Riverside, Newcastle
21st March - The Leadmill, Sheffield
23rd March - Chalk, Brighton
24th March - Hackney Earth, London
26th March - Trinity, Bristol
27th March - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
28th March - The Garage, Glasgow
30th March - Vicar Street, Dublin
1st April - Parkteatret, Oslo
2nd April - Debaser Strand, Stockholm
3rd April - Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen
5th April - Boom Chicago, Amsterdam
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Following on from a mammoth USA summer tour that saw him perform his much-loved, multi-faceted show across more than 30 dates, delighting audiences with his vibrant, hilarious and profound storytelling and captivating musicianship, Heidecker now brings this experience to the UK in March 2023, with stops in London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Nottingham, Brighton, Bristol and Glasgow, as well as Dublin, Oslo and Sweden.
The tour announcement is accompanied by the release today of his Live EP ‘Boulder’, containing four tracks captured during his August show at Boulder Theatre in Boulder, Colorado. The performance is live and untouched, and gives a window into the energy and musicality on stage every night of the USA tour.
From the raucous, rollocking opener “Property” and the country-inflected “Backwards”, to the heartfelt, keys-driven ballad “Work From Home” and stirring, soulful, harmony-laden “Stupid Kid”, the EP is revealing look into Heidecker’s enthralling, feel-good songwriting and stage presence provides a captivating glimpse into what UK audiences can expect from the forthcoming shows.
Speaking about the upcoming tour, Tim Heidecker said: "It’s been over five years since I’ve been to the UK and I’m so excited to bring my No More Bullshit/Very Good Band Show across the pond! This summer’s US tour was one of the most fun and fulfilling experiences of my life, and now me and the Very Good Band get to do it again with you!”
The UK tour and Live EP release mark another chapter in a busy and fruitful period for Heidecker, who also released the new album ‘High School’ in June, also on Spacebomb Recordings. Produced by Heidecker, Drew Erickson, Eric D. Johnson and Mac DeMarco, ‘High School’ sees Heidecker emerging as an increasingly playful and poignant story teller, infusing childhood tales with new gravity.
Since 2016, Tim Heidecker has chronicled the annals of adulthood on a series of supreme singer-songwriter albums. The crushing devastation of divorce and the existential malaise of middle-age, the minutiae of home ownership and the ritual of family vacation, child rearing and global warming: Heidecker has handled it all with humor and heart. With ‘High School’ he turns to new inspirations, mining a pivotal lodestar of human development — that’s right, High School.
After initial and fruitful sessions with Jonathan Rado, Heidecker started recording tunes with DeMarco and Erickson, who had also worked on 2020’s collaboration with Weyes Blood, Fear of Death. At DeMarco’s studio, they added drum machines and synths and sidewinding solos to Heidecker’s big strummed chords. Johnson (Bonny Light Horseman, Fruit Bats) helped Heidecker finesse the tunes even more, making the music as rich as the feelings. Kurt Vile contributed to one song, as well. Through all those sessions, it slowly became clear: Heidecker was writing not only about the adventures and misadventures of life as a Pennsylvania teen in the early ’90s, but also how it felt to lose a juvenile sense of mystery and possibility as an adult. He was writing about high school — and, really, the way it helped shape everything else.
Back at Pennsylvania’s Allentown Central Catholic High School, Heidecker dreamed of making it with one of his many rock bands — Time and Other Things, Shaggy’s Beltbuckle, and (incredibly) The Pulsating Libidos. Two years shy of his graduating class’ 30th anniversary, Heidecker admits he had little of substance to say when he was 17, like all but the rarest of precocious minds. In college, though, he found the friends with whom he built his comedy career, largely apart from music and without much thought for his time back at Central Catholic. He was focused on his future. It is fitting, then, that as Heidecker has become such a delightful singer-songwriter and collaborator, he returns to the first scene of his time as a musician. Maybe he’s right — he didn’t have anything to say or sing about life back then. But across the earnest and amusing High School, he finds plenty to say about those weird and wonderful and ordinary times.
Heidecker’s “An Evening with Tim Heidecker” stand up special has prompted publications like Vulture to dub him “the poet laureate of delusional assholes.” Truly, the “Tim Heidecker” of stand-up comedy is the epitome of a “‘truth-telling’ comic with none of the Jonatalent, but all of the narcissism and aggression” (Vulture). The second half of the show features Heidecker, the songwriter, musician and performer. This is Tim Heidecker without the quotes around his name, a representation of a talented and prolific songwriter who never eschews his natural inclination towards humor, but where there’s always something deeper and more real for listeners to sink their teeth into. Heidecker (guitar, vocals) and the Very Good Band, Vic Berger (keys), Josh Adams (drums), Eliana Athayde (bass, vocals) and Catfish Connor (lead guitar, pedal steel), will play songs from the entire Tim Heidecker catalogue.
Tour dates 2023:
16th March - The Brudenell, Leeds
17th March - New Century, Manchester
19th March - The Mill, Birmingham
20th March - Riverside, Newcastle
21st March - The Leadmill, Sheffield
23rd March - Chalk, Brighton
24th March - Hackney Earth, London
26th March - Trinity, Bristol
27th March - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
28th March - The Garage, Glasgow
30th March - Vicar Street, Dublin
1st April - Parkteatret, Oslo
2nd April - Debaser Strand, Stockholm
3rd April - Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen
5th April - Boom Chicago, Amsterdam
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