Honne release second album ‘Love / Love Me Not’, Brixton Academy + worldwide tour details
HONNE release second album, ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’
Global tour dates on sale now
Stream/download ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’: https://lnk.to/LoveMe-LoveMeNot
Praise for HONNE’s debut album, ‘Warm On A Cold Night’
“Eminently danceable…bruised romantics” Observer, Album of the Week ****
“A triumph” NME
“Breezy, easy, vaguely mournful electro-soul” Sunday Times Culture
“A widescreen take on late-night lust and modern romance” Mixmag, 8/10
“21st century courtly love…exquisite” Evening Standard
HONNE have today released their much-anticipated second album, ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’. The band’s extensive worldwide tour also continues this month, with a UK headline tour (including a massive show at London’s Brixton Academy) kicking off in November.
An effortlessly-accomplished step forward, the split concept of ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’ has been unveiled this year via the unusual plan to drop two tracks on the last Friday of every month (crystallising in the final drop – and the release of the full album on beautiful vinyl – today). It’s a fitting framework for a record which captures the duality of life’s ups and downs: half the tracks explore life’s positives – love, nostalgia and contentment (Love Me ◑) and the other half life’s great difficulties – heartbreak, anxiety and grief (Love Me Not ◐). With a sound and message that travels far and wide, HONNE’s is a truly modern success story, which has seen them develop an impassioned global audience: see over half a billion streams, sold-out tours, and several surprises along the way (like a triple-platinum album in South Korea).
‘Love Me / Love Me Not’ features contributions from a diverse cast of collaborators, ranging from Tom Misch, Anna of the North, Nana Rogues (who produced Drake’s ‘Passionfruit’) and Georgia. The record remains, though, distinctly HONNE’s own, a band whose sometimes-awkward, always-positive portraits of 21st century romance, masculinity and modern city living have seen them bring together a diverse community. And despite testing new boundaries, ‘Love Me / Love Me Not’ ultimately sees the band’s earliest ambitions come into even clearer focus. They cite the group’s name (“Honne” meaning your true feelings, those you keep to yourself), the name of their early record label (“Tatemae”, which reflects what you display in public), plus the fact that this dichotomy between an online persona and actual reality has become starker since when they first started making music. “Those two sides have been rooted in us from the beginning, but now is the first time we’ve truly demonstrated it. One doesn’t exist without the other, and so this time these songs have to be there together. A lot of films and TV shows either explore the good or bad, but we wanted to show a balance and the grey space.” And it’s in those in-between spaces that HONNE have truly found themselves, and a work of timely, timeless songwriting.
Sept 7th – El Plaza Condesa / Mexico City / Mexico
Sept 9th – Starlite Room / Edmonton / Canada
Sept 10th – Marquee Beer Market and Stage / Calgary / Canada
Sept 12th – The Showbox /Seattle / US
Sept 13th – Westward Music Festival 2018 / Vancouver / Canada
Sept 14th – Wonder Ballroom / Portland / US
Sept 15th – The Warfield / San Francisco / US (sold out)
Sept 16th – The Catalyst / Santa Cruz / US
Sept 18th – The Glass House / Pomona / US (sold out)
Sept 20th – The Novo by Microsoft / Los Angeles / US
Sept 21st – The Observatory North Park / San Diego / US
Sept 22nd – The Crescent Ballroom / Phoenix / US
Sept 25th – Urban Lounge / Salt Lake City / US
Sept 26th – Bluebird Theater / Denver / US
Sept 27th – Granada Theatre / Lawrence / US
Sept 28th – Fine Line Music Café / Minneapolis / US
Sept 29th – Metro / Chicago / US
Oct 1st – Phoenix Concert Theatre / Toronto / Canada
Oct 2nd – Théâtre Fairmount / Montreal / Canada
Oct 5th – The Foundry Philadelphia / Philadelphia / US (sold out)
Oct 6th – Royale / Boston / US
Oct 7th – 9:30 Club / Washington /US
Oct 8th – Brooklyn Steel / Brooklyn / US (sold out)
Oct 9th – Irving Plaza / New York / US
Oct 12th – Terminal West / Atlanta / US (sold out)
Oct 13th – One Eyed Jacks / New Orleans / US
Oct 15th – Trees, Dallas, TX, US
Oct 16th – White Oak Music Hall / Houston / US
Oct 17th – Mohawk / Austin / US
Oct 30th – Parkteatret / Oslo / Norway
Oct 31st – Nalen Stora Salen / Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 2nd – VEGA Musikkens Hus – Store Vega (Main Hall) / Copenhagen / Denmark (sold out)
Nov 5th – Astra Kulturhaus / Berlin / Germany
Nov 6th – Klub Hybrydy / Warsaw / Poland
Nov 8th – Rock Café / Prague /Czech Republic
Nov 9th – Flex / Vienna /Austria
Nov 11th – Magnolia / Milan / Italy
Nov 12th – Plaza /Zürich /Switzerland
Nov 13th – Muffathalle / Munich /Germany
Nov 15th – Melkweg / Amsterdam /Netherlands
Nov 16th – La Maroquinerie / Paris /France
Nov 17th – Gloria Theater / Cologne / Germany
Nov 20th – St Luke’s / Glasgow / UK
Nov 21st – Academy / Dublin / Ireland
Nov 22nd – SWX / Bristol / UK
Nov 23rd – Manchester Academy 2 / Manchester / UK (sold out)
Nov 24th – O2 Academy Brixton / London / UK
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