Glasgow art-rockers Life With out Buildings are set to play their first present of their dwelling metropolis since 2002 – discover tickets right here.
The quartet, who broke up that very same yr, introduced their reunion earlier this month with two reveals at London venue Koko as a part of Tough Commerce’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations.
Each reveals have offered out, however followers now have the possibility to see them at Glasgow’s Saint Luke’s on November 17, days earlier than their London reveals, with fellow Glaswegians Comber in help.
Tickets to the Saint Luke’s present go on sale at 10am on Friday (January 30), and tickets will probably be out there right here. To hitch the ready record for the London reveals, go right here.
Life With out Buildings’ reunion follows singer Sue Tompkins teaming up with Sleaford Mods for his or her single ‘No Contact’ final December. It seems on their new album, ‘The Demise Of Planet X’, which was launched on January 16.
“She’s completely incredible,” Sleaford Mods frontman Jason Williamson instructed NME in October. “I wasn’t conscious of Life With out Buildings or Sue earlier than the periods. We’d been liaising rather a lot with Tough Commerce on this album due to their wealth of data. We had a gathering about it they usually had been like, ‘Have you ever heard of Sue Tompkins?’
“I hadn’t, so that they despatched me their album and her voice was simply stunning. We had a prolonged telephone name, she got here to Bristol and he or she did it in about three hours. She had a chilly as nicely, which sort of provides to it. it’s her, but it surely jogged my memory of ‘Debut’ period Björk. It was fairly punky.”
Life With out Buildings first fashioned in 1999 they usually turned identified for Tompkins’ ‘talk-sung’ vocal type in addition to supporting The Strokes at their first-ever headline present in London. They launched their first and solely album, ‘Any Different Metropolis’, in February 2001, turning into cult favourites attributable to Tompkins’ vocals and their spiky mix of post-punk and math rock.
After they broke up the next yr, guitarist Robert Johnston mentioned that Tompkins needed to give attention to her profession as a visible artist, that not one of the band members had envisioned turning music right into a profession, and that they felt stress after the band they began for enjoyable was turning into critical.
Since then, they launched a reside album recorded in 2001, ‘Stay At The Annandale Lodge’, in 2007. Tompkins and bassist Chris Evans labored as visible artists, Johnston turned a graphic designer, and drummer Will Bradley labored as a author.
In 2021, their track ‘The Leanover’ went viral on TikTok after singer-songwriter Beabadoobee posted a video of herself lip-syncing to it on the video-sharing platform.
Evans mentioned he thought the renewed recognition was right down to the track’s skill to “take you someplace or to a sure anyone – it will also be a wilful thought, say in the event you’re singing alongside within the backseat of your stepdad’s automotive.”
Tompkins added: “I like discovering new music, outdated music, something that simply makes me really feel one thing new and excites me… I believe it’s simply that you just discover issues on the proper time.”
