Brix Smith has introduced particulars of a UK summer time headline tour together with her new band ‘The All Feminine Tremendous Group’.
The post-punk icon, who was a member of The Fall and others, based her new band final 12 months for a debut UK tour, and can head again out on the highway this summer time.
“I’m occurring tour,” Smith mentioned in an announcement. The All Feminine Tremendous Group and I are hitting the highway from Could for our ‘Valley Of The Dolls’ UK tour. Can’t wait to see you on the market.”
‘Valley Of The Dolls’ is the identify of Smith’s debut solo album, which got here out this 12 months. Her band for the stay reveals includes My Bloody Valentine duo Deb George (bass) and Jen Marco (keyboards and guitar), together with Vas Antoniadou (drums) and Ros Cairney (guitar) from rising London duo Deux Furieuses.
See the tour dates beneath and purchase tickets right here.
MAY 2023
23 – Bristol, Unusual Brew
24 – Manchester, YES
27 – Bearded Idea Pageant
28 – London, Decrease Third
JUNE 2023
8 – Newcastle, Cluny 1
9 – Glasgow, King Tuts
14 – Brighton, Concorde 2
15 – Stroud, Subscription Rooms
16 – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
“It’s one of the best factor I’ve completed since The Fall,” Smith advised NME lately of her new album. “I can die blissful now”.
She continued: “It’s time to fucking put my head above the parapet and rise up there and say I’m Brix Smith. I’m simply talking my fact. I lastly really feel that I’ve finally tapped into the reality meter with out having insecurities blocking it of attempting to be this artist or that artists. It’s simply me with no masks.”
Discussing her new stay band in 2022, she mentioned: “All of us are between 40 and 60 and so they’re all prime post-punk feminists.”
Smith went on to clarify how “the dynamic of taking part in with all girls” was “one thing I’ve by no means completed”.
“I’ve all the time been a girl in a person’s world,” she added. “The Fall had been soiled, ugly blokes, you recognize? The dynamic of taking part in with these girls is simply phenomenal. It’s simply good to be hanging out with nice like-minded folks.
