BPREVIEW: Band of Horses @ O2 Institute 20.02.18

BPREVIEW: Band of Horses @ O2 Institute 20.02.18

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Words by Damien Russell

On the 20th of February, Band of Horses will be performing at the O2 Institute – playing in Birmingham as part of 7 UK/Ireland dates on their international tour.Birm_Prev-logo-MAIN

Doors will be opening at 19:00 and tickets are £25.75 (plus booking fees) as presented by SJM Concerts. For direct gig info, including venue details and online ticket sales, click here.

For those of you not already familiar with Band of Horses there’s a fair amount of catching up to do. The band formed in 2004 and in their 13 years have had 6 studio albums and 1 Grammy nomination. They have also had 8 line-up changes, although band leader Ben Bridwell has remained constant throughout.

BPREVIEW: Band of Horses @ O2 Institute 20.02.18Band of Horses hit the ground running with their first album Everything All The Time, a minor hit that charted internationally – even in Scandinavia, where it found the lower reaches of both Sweden and Norway’s national album charts. The band’s debut single, ‘The Funeral’, has been used in numerous television series, films, video games, and advertisements.

Their successes continued and their third album, Infinite Arms, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Alternative Album category. The LP also and featured in the Best Albums of 2010 lists from Q Magazine (#21), NPR Listeners (#15), Filter Magazine (#10) and Paste Magazine (#14). The song ‘Laredo’ was placed at No28 in Rolling Stone Magazine’s top 50 songs of 2010.

Band of Horses’ sixth and latest album, Why Are You OK,  was released in June 2016 and brings the band back to a fuller sound. In an interview with Gigwise.com, Ben Bridwell said; “I wanted to pore over it and explore some more sincere themes, instead of speaking in riddles so no one knows what I’m talking about. That was fuelling the fire and that takes time.”

For a pre-gig taster, check out Band of Horses’ latest single, ‘Solemn Oath’ – released on June 10th 2016.

Band of Horses perform at the O2 Institute on Monday 20th February, as presented SJM Concerts. For direct gig info and online tickets sales, click here.

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For more on Band of Horses, visit www.bandofhorses.com

For more from the O2 Institute, including full event listing and online ticket sales, visit www.academymusicgroup.com/o2institutebirmingham

For more from SJM Concerts/Gigs and Tours, visit www.gigsandtours.com

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THE GALLERY: The Pretty Reckless @ O2 Institute 20.01.17

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Pics by Rob Hadley

On Friday 20th January, The Pretty Reckless performed at the O2 Institute – as presented by SJM Concerts/Gig & Tours.

On a global tour promoting their third studio album, Who You Selling For – out through Razor & Tie Recordings from October last year, The Pretty Reckless were in Birmingham for one of a handful (one for each finger & thumb) of UK dates. Next stops: mainland Europe, Russia, South, Central and North America. We did say global.

Fronted by Taylor Momsen, with Jamie Perkins, Ben Phillips and Mark Damon having been ‘the band’ since their debut LP, The Pretty Reckless are vocally strong and obviously Rock. But with Kato Khandwala (Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Blondie) as producer for their three studio albums, this is what you’d want and expect. Something the gig ticket buying public seems pretty (no pun) happy with too, as The Pretty Reckless sold out their entire UK tour with reassuringly green tinged ease. I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller…

Rob Haldey was at the O2 Institute for Birmingham Review – shooting an extended photo feature to go into THE GALLERY. See a selection of Rob’s shots below or click here for the full Flickr of Pics (or on the link above). There’s some on the Birmingham Review Instagram page too.

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THE GALLERY: The Pretty Reckless @ O2 Institute 20.01.17 / Rob Hadley © Birmingham Review

THE GALLERY: The Pretty Reckless @ O2 Institute 20.01.17 / Rob Hadley © Birmingham Review

THE GALLERY: The Pretty Reckless @ O2 Institute 20.01.17 / Rob Hadley © Birmingham Review

THE GALLERY: The Pretty Reckless @ O2 Institute 20.01.17 / Rob Hadley © Birmingham Review

THE GALLERY: The Pretty Reckless @ O2 Institute 20.01.17 / Rob Hadley © Birmingham Review

Who You Selling For – the third studio album from The Pretty Reckless, is out now on Razor & Tie Recordings. For more on The Pretty Reckless, including full tour dates and online sales, visit www.theprettyreckless.com

For more from the O2 Institute, including full event listing and online ticket sales, visit www.academymusicgroup.com/o2institutebirmingham

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For more from Razor & Tie Recordings, visit www.razorandtie.com

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Words by Ed King

On Friday 20th January, The Pretty Reckless perform at the O2 Institute – coming to Birmingham on the second date of a five show UK tour.Birmingham Preview

Doors open at 7pm with an 11pm curfew. Tickets are priced at £23.75, as presented by SJM Concerts/Gigs & Tours. For direct gig info, including venue detail and onlie tickets sales click here.

N.B. At the time of writing, each UK date is presented as SOLD OUT through The Pretty Reckless website – check with a repeatable ticket outlet, or the individual venues, for returns/extras.

What do you get if you cross a creative polymath, two bands, a trademark dispute and a support tour with The Veronicas..? A bit of a clusterfu*k, to begin with anyway. But at least one that ended with a better name.

Who You Selling For / The Pretty RecklessAnd from the flames of God-only-knows-what-happened, The Pretty Reckless were born. Again, and again – releasing their debut LP, Light Me Up, through Interscope Records in August 2010. Produced by Rock God Behind Soundproof Glass, Kato Khandwala (Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Blondie), the ten track debut was a touch ‘generic’, according to some, but damn well delivered. And those vocals…

Four years passed until The Pretty Reckless let the studio doors fly open again, jumping to Razor & Tie Records to release their sophomore LP. But when they did twelve tracks of unashamed ROCK were unleashed on the world – complete with pounding rhythms, powerful vocals, a song about shotguns and a soundbyte of someone about to cum. And it was called Going to Hell… so there’s that.

Two years passed and The Pretty Reckless were at it once more, with their third studio album, Who You Selling For, released again through Razor & Tie Records in October 2016. Punchy, fresh, melodic (there’s even a piano in there) the third time round the studio sun showed just what The Pretty Reckless can achieve.

Now they’re on the global road to persuade us to buy a copy (not the world’s worst idea) coming to Birmingham as part of a five date UK tour – before heading over to mainland Europe, Russia, then South, Central and North America respectively.

But if you don’t hang on my every written word as if they were the POST-IT-NOTES-OF-GOD, then check out ‘Take Me Down’ – the lead single from Who You Selling For. Free will… what a jip.

‘Take Me Down’ – The Pretty Reckless

The Pretty Reckless perform at the O2 Institute on Friday 20th January, as presented SJM Concerts/Gigs & Tours. For direct gig info and online tickets sales, click here.Gigs and Tours - trans

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For more on The Pretty Reckless, visit www.theprettyreckless.com

For more from the O2 Institute, including full event listing and online ticket sales, visit www.academymusicgroup.com/o2institutebirmingham

For more from SJM Concerts / Gigs & Tours, visit www.gigsandtours.com

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