Bartees Strange Announces Summer UK & European Tour

Bartees Strange will return to Europe this summer for month of headline shows and festival appearances. Tickets for the Baltimore-based artist’s shows in Zurich, Berlin, Hamburg, Manchester, Southampton and London go on general sale this Friday 9th May at 10AM local time. A pre-sale will begin tomorrow, Wednesday 7th May, at 10AM local time. Head HERE for more information.

Strange was raised on fear. His family told him scary stories to teach life lessons, and at an early age, he started watching scary movies to practice being strong. The world can be a terrifying place, and for a young, queer, Black person in rural America, that terror can be visceral. Horror is an album about facing those fears and growing to become someone to be feared.

Horror was co-produced by Strange, Yves and Lawrence Rothman (Yves Tumor, Lady Gaga) and Jack Antonoff. Throughout the record, Strange lays down one difficult truth after another, all over a sonic pastiche of music that soundtracked his childhood. Across the album’s 12 new tracks are genre-bending threads of the music his dad introduced him to – Parliament Funkadelic, Fleetwood Mac and Teddy Pendergrass – merged with Strange’s interest in hip-hop, country, indie rock, and house.

Since releasing his 2022 breakout album Farm to Table, Strange has toured alongside boygenius, Clairo, Dijon and The National. Recently, his music has been featured on multiple TV and film soundtracks including Apple TV’s The New Look and A24’s I Saw The TV Glow. 

Born in Ipswich, England to a military father and opera-singer mother, Bartees Strange had a peripatetic childhood before eventually settling in Mustang, Oklahoma. Later, Bartees cut his teeth playing in hardcore bands in Washington D.C. and Brooklyn whilst working in the Barack Obama administration and the environmental justice movement.