Musician and activist Moby is thrilled to announce soul-jazz singer-songwriter Lady Blackbird
MOBY ANNOUNCES LADY BLACKBIRD AS UK/EUROPE TOUR SPECIAL GUEST
MOBY WILL BE PERFORMING HIS GREATEST HITS THIS SEPTEMBER
100% OF HIS TOUR PROFITS WILL BENEFIT EUROPEAN ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS
MOBY’S NEW ALBUM ALWAYS CENTERED AT NIGHT IS OUT NOW
“I feel like the luckiest musician in the world that I’m going to be going on tour with Lady Blackbird. Her voice and her presence and her creativity are incredibly inspiring.” – moby
“The relationship started with Reginald and Bagel, which evolved into a creative, collaborative relationship with Moby on “Walk With Me” and “Dark Days”. I’m so excited to announce that I will be joining him on tour, where we shall all be centered at night.” – Lady Blackbird
Musician and activist Moby is thrilled to announce that acclaimed soul-jazz singer-songwriter Lady Blackbird, with whom he collaborated on recent critically acclaimed album ‘always centered at night’ and 2023’s ‘Resound NYC’, will be joining him on his first tour in over a decade across Europe/UK this September. 100% of his tour profits will go to European animal rights organisations.
The tour will feature his greatest hits, including classics such as “Porcelain,” “Natural Blues” and “Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?”, taken from the album ‘Play’ which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and has sold over 12 million copies worldwide, winning numerous awards and becoming the biggest-selling electronic album of all time.
Earlier this month, Moby released his latest album ‘always centered at night’, which features Lady Blackbird on the lead single ‘dark days’, a defiant, rhythmic work propelled by her alluring, deep vocals and earnest soul.
2024 stands to be another big year for Moby where past endeavours and innovative future music coalesce, still pioneering, with activism at the forefront of everything he does.
European live dates:
September 18 – Manchester, England / O2 Apollo – SOLD OUT
September 19 – London, England / The O2 – tickets
September 21 – Antwerp, Belgium / Sportpaleis – SOLD OUT
September 22 – Berlin, Germany / Velodrom – SOLD OUT
September 23 – Düsseldorf, Germany / Mitsubishi Electric Hall – tickets
September 24 – Paris, France / Le Zenith – SOLD OUT
September 25 – Lausanne, Switzerland / Vaudoise Aréna – tickets
Press quotes for ‘always centered at night’ – out now
“this luxuriant collection is one of Moby’s most consistently inviting and uplifting in years.” – UNCUT
“Moby’s ear for collaboration feels refreshingly ego-free, allowing talents around him to blossom. ‘always centered at night’ leans in on this, with Moby acting as a fulcrum for a veritable galaxy of collaborators, resulting in an enriching, and surprising full length… This new album finds the producer gazing once more to the future…” – CLASH
“always centered at night is arguably his most inventive LP since that magnum opus {Play}.” – Classic Pop
“From moments of erupting, bedazzling attacks from multi-storey car parks or fairgrounds in fields still muddy since the 90s, and other moments glistening with bejewelled melodies that should be played on repeat in a monastery (or at 3am), Moby’s lifelong confronting of the human condition, his contemplations, his questioning, his principles, his questions are all explored with a little help from his friends making Always Centred At Night, an album about the spirit of discovery.” –Louder Than War
“the reason the album is worth a cherry pick is that there are moments when Moby hits the bullseye. These include the swampy, twangy blues of “Sweet Moon”, with vocals by American singer Choklate, the ominous doom-soul of “Transit”, with Sudanese singer Gaidaa, the melancholic ambient-ballad version of Cream’s “We’re Going Wrong”, with Brie O’Banion, and the closing piano shuffler, with José James, which is proper wee-hours jazz.” – The Arts Desk
“beautifully produced, with an almost cinematic sheen to many of the tracks. You could easily imagine Dark Days, with the evocative vocals of Lady Blackbird, accompanying the credits of a dark, dystopian sci-fi film, while the orchestrations of We’re Going Wrong are stark and dramatic, contrasting nicely with Brie O’Banion’s understated vocals.” – Music OMH
ABOUT MOBY
Moby is a multi-platinum-selling, multi-award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, author, and animal rights activist. He has been a vegan and vegan activist for 35 years. “ANIMAL RIGHTS” tattoos cover his arms, while his neck carries the unequivocal “VEGAN FOR LIFE” in bold lettering. Having been sober since 2008, Moby has ploughed his energies and his own cash into protecting and liberating animals, becoming a pioneer in the field of animal advocacy and drawing attention to issues that weren’t in the conversation back in the 1990s. As well as donating proceeds from albums and business endeavours to nonprofits such as Animal Equality, Mercy for Animals, and The Humane League, he also made an absorbing documentary Punk Rock Vegan Movie. Moby’s directorial debut, the documentary premiered at 2023’s Slamdance and was subsequently released online for free, features a star-studded cast of alternative musical legends who reject the idea of animals as commodity, including Dave Navarro, Captain Sensible, Rob Zombie and Steve Ignorant.