Roddy Woomble announces new Autumn tour dates
••• Everyday Sun •••
Roddy Woomble had been due to tour the UK from 26th March to 6th May in support of upcoming EP: ‘Everyday Sun’. In light of the recent events, all dates have now been re-scheduled.
‘Everyday Sun’ is the latest single from Roddy Woomble, and it is the first track taken from a forthcoming EP of the same name, out 27th March 2020.
The song is a hazy rumination, where observations on meaninglessness sit alongside optimism. Written alongside frequent collaborator and Idlewild bandmate Andrew Mitchell and recorded in the latter’s Dundee studio, it marks a departure from Woomble’s traditional working methods with either piano or guitar.
“I greatly enjoyed both of Andrew’s instrumental solo albums (under his Andrew Wasylyk moniker), and really liked the idea of trying to read some of my words over his compositions,“ says Roddy.
“Andrew would send over ideas, essentially basic beats, and Roddy would construct lyrics around them.
“It was interesting just to have an electronic drumbeat to base my words around,” he says of the experience. A new style of delivery, neither spoken word nor straight-forward singing, adds to the mystique and texture; many lines were also rearranged to strip them of conventional meaning and narrative.“
“Do our souls cause the desert to exist?” he asks, later lamenting how “everyone lives in a state of forgetfulness” over woozy synth washes and a languid beat.
That intersection of memory and technology provided inspiration for film director Danny Grant, who shot the single’s accompanying video.
“I was watching a documentary from the early 1980s that had a section processed by video synthesizer, and was discussing how the abstraction of the processed images are an interesting representation of memory,” Grant says.
“The tech was pretty raw but there was something compelling about the quality of it, and as soon as I heard ‘Everyday Sun’ I thought of those images. There’s some visuals taken from the lyrics – built up cities, empty spaces and some abstract images, all processed to try and evoke the haze of a distant memory.“
Minimal and hypnotic, it’s neither song nor poem, and serves as the perfect taster for the rest of Roddy Woomble‘s new EP and forthcoming UK tour with Andrew Mitchell. “Spontaneous and creative” is how he describes their collaboration, qualities now applied to the latest chapter of one of Scotland’s most acclaimed artists.
RODDY WOOMBLE – 2020 UK TOUR DATES
- Thu 28 May 20 – Strathaven Frets Acoustic @ Strathaven Hotel
- Fri 05 Jun 20 – Dundee Dundee University’s Chaplaincy Centre
- Sat 06 Jun 20 – Wakefield Long Division
- Thu 23 Jul 20 – Chester St Mary’s Creative Space
- Fri 24 Jul 20 – Topcliffe Deer Shed Festival
- Sat 25 Jul 20 – Newcastle Cumberland Arms
- Sun 09 Aug 20 – Sunderland Lamplight Festival
- Sat 15 Aug 20 – Edinburgh Summerhall / Edinburgh Fringe
- Thu 10 Sep 20 – New Galloway Castle Douglas Catstrand Arts Centre
- Fri 11 Sep 20 – Arbroath Webster Memorial Theatre
- Sat 12 Sep 20 – Coventry The Tin Music & Acts
- Sun 13 Sep 20 – Guildford The Boilerroom
- Mon 14 Sep 20 – Brighton Komedia Studio
- Tue 15 Sep 20 – Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
- Wed 16 Sep 20 – Middlesborough Middlesbrough Town Hall
- Thu 17 Sep 20 – Saltaire The Salt Factory
- Fri 18 Sep 20 – Reading South Street Arts Centre
- Sat 19 Sep 20 – Winchester The Railway Inn
Tickets on sale now – available here:
https://www.roddywoomble.netnet
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