Welsh songwriter, producer and avant-pop visionary Cate Le Bon brings her singular world of art-rock to ARRIVAL, performing music from her beguiling seventh album Michelangelo Dying.
Written between Hydra, Cardiff, London and Los Angeles and completed in the Californian desert, Michelangelo Dying is Le Bon’s most emotionally direct work yet - a shimmering meditation on love, loss and the strange afterlife of both. The record expands the idiosyncratic sonic universe she’s carved across acclaimed releases including Reward and Pompeii, blending warped guitars, spectral saxophone, motorik rhythms and surreal lyricism into something unmistakably her own.
Over the past decade, Le Bon has emerged as one of modern pop’s most compelling voices both as a performer and as a sought-after producer helping shape records for artists including St. Vincent, Wilco & Dry Cleaning. Her work nods to iconoclasts like David Bowie, Nico and Laurie Anderson, while remaining entirely her own strange and beautiful language.
On stage, Le Bon’s band transforms these intricate recordings into a hypnotic live experience that weaves saxophone, jagged guitar, analogue textures and stark vocals into a performance that is equal parts art-rock theatre and emotional exorcism. For ARRIVAL, expect a spellbinding set from one of contemporary music’s most distinctive and visionary artists.
Joined by hypnotic electronic pop artist No Bride. This performance includes an Acknowledgement of Country from Michael Spratt.
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$1 from every ticket sale will go towards Good Trouble Projects who make magnetic, disruptive creative work about issues that matter. Their first 3 actions will pressure the government to reject the Aluminium Company of America's application to mine an additional 11,000 hectares of the Northern Jarrah Forest by raising awareness and driving the government to fund an alternative future.
We acknowledge that this event is held on the stolen lands of the Whadjuk People. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present & emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
