LIFE’s ‘The Moon Factory’ to take place tomorrow + EU / UK tour dates rescheduled for 2021

By Steve Janes

On August 19, 2020

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LIFE’S ‘THE MOON FACTORY’

TO TAKE PLACE THURSDAY 20TH AUGUST

FULL PRODUCTION LIVE SHOW EXPERIENCE

FEATURING A NEW SINGLE PREMIERE

+ Q&A & ART PROJECT

IN ASSOCIATION WITH HULL ARTS ORGANISATION

‘BACK TO OURS’

UK / EU TOUR DATES RESCHEDULED FOR MAY / JUNE 2021

Photo credit: Francesca McConnell

Recently nominated for two AIM Awards for Best Live Act and Best (difficult) Second Album LIFE continue their rapid upward trajectory with ‘The Moon Factory’ – presented by Hull arts organisation Back to Ours.

Thursday 20th August, LIFE invite the world to tune in for a full production live show that will see the group occupy a new world, a world in which they create and inhabit behind closed doors. This will be LIFE’s first live performance since they had to abandon their trip to SXSW in March and board the last plane home from New York after New Colossus. It also comes on the heels of the band’s recent announcement that they have rescheduled their EU and UK tour dates for May / June 2021, which had previously been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Full dates are as follows, and tickets are available via the band’s website here

1th May – Brighton, UK – Hope & Ruin

12th May – Southampton, UK – The Joiners

13th May – Exeter, UK – Cavern

14th May – Bristol, UK – Rough Trade

16th May – Sheffield, UK – O2 Academy 2

17th May – Newcastle, UK – Think Tank

18th May – Edinburgh, UK – Sneaky Pete’s

19th May – Glasgow, UK – King Tut’

s21st May – Hull, UK – The Welly Club (TBC)

22nd May – Hebden Bridge, UK – Trades Club

23rd May – Manchester, UK – Yes

24th May – Nottingham, UK – The Bodega

25th May – London, UK – Lafayette

26th May – Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute

330th May – Rotterdam, NL – Rotterdam

31st May – Münster, DE – Sputnik Café

1st June – Köln, DE – Blue Shell

2nd June – Utrecht, NL – ACU

3rd June – Nijmegen, NL – Merleyn

5th June – Vestrock Festival, NL – Hulst

6th June – Hamburg, DE – Hafenklang

8th June – Berlin, DE – Cassiopeia

11th June – Torino, IT – Blah Blah12th

June – Milan, IT – Biko

14th June – Zurich, CH – Dynamo Werk 21

16th June – Madrid, ES – Moby Dick

17th June – Barcelona, ES – Vol

‘The Moon Factory’ is the first chance to see them play live since their arena tour with Kaiser Chiefs. The show will see the band premiere a new single and will incorporate an interactive Q&A as well as the world premiere of their community art piece LIFE INSIDE.In their own words, LIFE had this to say:“We invite you to our factory. To our isolation bunker, our socially distanced wonderland. This is LIFE. This is LIVE like you’ve never seen us before. Watch us dance intimately in the palm of your hand. See us explode into your living room. Come join us. This is essential travel. This is The Moon Factory!”LIFE INSIDE is a project pioneered and facilitated by the band. It puts voices of young people from their community at the forefront of the current global pandemic. The art piece will be incorporated within this unique live show and continues LIFE’s drive to support and empower young people and their community following on from the publication of their collaborative Zine SWITCHING ON.

‘The Moon Factory’ has been commissioned by Hull’s Back to Ours and will be captured on 4 HD cameras by Josh Moore, who directed music videos for five singles that were play-listed on BBC 6 Music, all from the band’s recent album ‘A picture of Good Health’.‘The Moon Factory’ will be streamed live across multiple time zones with LIFE performing two unique live sets both of which will finish with a Q&A and a screening of LIFE INSIDE.

Speaking about the event, Louise Yates the Back to Ours Director, had this to say:“LIFE supported our first Back to Ours gig at North Point with Carl Barat for our February half-term festival in 2017. They were incredible. They were heading off to America pretty much straight after, so it’s a pleasure to have them back on the virtual Back to Ours sofa three years later. It’s not going to be your average gig, so prepare yourself for an exciting, innovative experience with a red hot band, and snap those tickets up while you can.’’

Tickets are £8 and available on DICE here.Tickets bought on DICE also include the option to donate to the Justice for Christopher Alder fund. Christopher was a Hull hero who was unlawfully killed whilst in police custody. Tickets for the performances are also available along with a number of unique,Moon Factory merch bundles via the band’s own website here.Ticket holders will have access to the live stream for 7 days after purchase.

1st Performance: UK & Europe 20:30 BST 21:30 CET2nd Performance: North America 17:30 PDT / 20:30 EST

‘A PICTURE OF GOOD HEALTH’

LIZ KERSHAW’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR

BBC 6 Music (5 Playlisted Singles)

NOMINATED FOR TWO 2020 AIM AWARDS

Best (difficult) Second Album & Best Live Ac

t2019 was an incendiary year for the band, which saw them release their critically acclaimed and awards ceremony nominated second album ‘A Picture Of Good Health’, earning plaudits from the likes of BBC Radio 6 Music (4 playlisted singles + Album Of the Day) and BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunder’s Album Of The Weekend) as well as being selected as Liz Kershaw’s Album Of The Year on BBC 6 Music. The album has received high praise from a number of major publications as well as featuring in end of year lists from the likes of the Guardian, Dork and more.

LIFE’s post album single ‘Switching On’ was, again playlisted, by BBC Radio 6 as well as being remixed by UK top 10, Mercury Prize nominated Bristol band IDLES who called it “an intimating, industrial new beast.”’ Prior to lockdown LIFE made a big impact touring America and France and appeared on French national TV alongside Primal Scream and IDLES for Jenny Beth’s new TV show ECHOES

https://youtu.be/AbHqZM4Stjc

LIFE have recently rescheduled their UK/EU Tour Dates for the Autumn of this year.A Picture Of Good Health

Produced by Luke Smith (Foals) and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Parquet Courts), LIFE’s new album sees the band home in on a bigger and more focused sound whilst also channelling the lyrical content inwards. Whereas the band’s debut album ‘Popular Music’ was broadly political, the new album takes a more personal approach with beguilingly honest and brave lyrics that are bold in both sound and feeling, whilst also retaining the core DNA of their previous material.

Speaking about the album Mez goes on to say “A Picture of Good Health is not a collage of work but rather a snapshot of time; our time and the time of those around us. It’s political, but in a personal way. It’s a body of work that explores and examines the band’s inner selves through a precise period; a period that has brought pain, loneliness, blood, guts, single parenthood, depression and the need for survival and love. It is the sense and need for belonging that is the resounding end note!”Full bio available HERE‘A Picture Of Good Health’ is out now on band’s own label ‘Afghan Moon’ & [PIAS].

Order the album HERE