Woman’s Hour SXSW Schedule & US Dates
“Her Ghost” digital single out now
Watch “Her Ghost” Video below
SXSW Performances
Wednesday March 12
11:15 PM– @ Palm Door (508 6th St.)
Thursday March 13
1 PM Stereogum Party @ Mohawk (912 Red River St.)
1 AM British Music Embassy Showcase @ Latitude 330, (512 San Jacinto Blvd. right off of 6th St)
Friday March 14:
12:45 PM @ Under The Radar showcase
11 PM @ Secretly Group Showcase @ Red Eyed Fly (715 Red River St.)
London’s Woman’s Hour have been making waves on both sides of the Atlantic with a stream of transfixing singles championed for their bold minimalist sensibility and instantly memorable melodies. Audiences in the US will get their first chance to see them and hear songs from their forthcoming debut album, due out this year on Secretly Canadian, at this year’s SXSW Festival and shows in New York and Los Angeles, complete dates below.
Woman’s Hour just released a beautiful new video directed by internationally renowned visual artists Adam Brookmberg and Oliver Chanarin for their new single ‘Her Ghost’. Watch and embed the video below.
The new video – a further collaboration between Woman’s Hour and Broomberg and Chanarin following their work together on the band’s ‘To The End’ and ‘Darkest Place’ videos – finds front-woman Fiona Burgess’ lyrics reinterpreted through sign language, offering a striking new vision of universality in the song’s insatiable and heart-wrenching melodies.
“After seeing two young people signing to each other in the street, I became interested in how deaf people communicate, particularly how they engage with music,” says Fiona. “Vilma, the deaf actor in our video, signs the song as a personal response to the lyrics, rather than a literal word-for-word translation. The process has enabled us to celebrate this form of engagement with music; language as a form of dance.”
‘Her Ghost’ is available digitally now on Secretly Canadian.
More on Woman’s Hour’s ‘Her Ghost’
‘Her Ghost’ is Woman’s Hour’s first release with their new label following a year which saw them become the 6th most blogged band of the year (Hype Machine) and receive praise from the likes of Pitchfork, The Fader and Stereogum.
Placing the heart-wrenching vocals of Fiona Burgess against an intricate backdrop of expertly-crafted electronic textures, the new song finds its power through restraint with the band’s attention to the smallest of details reflected in the richness of the end result. At once achingly subtle and breathtakingly powerful in its melodic display, “Her Ghost” is testament to a band fully in command of their unique identity and sound.
Woman’s Hour are Fiona Burgess, William Burgess, Josh Hunnisett and Nicolas Graves.
SXSW
March 12 @ Palm Door 11:15 PM
March 13 Stereogum Party @ Mohawk 1 PM
March 13 British Music Embassy Showcase @ Latitude 330) 1 AM
March 14 Under the Radar Showcase 12:45 PM
March 14 Secretly Group Showcase @ Red Eyed Fly 11 PM
Forthcoming Live Dates
March 17th Bardot, Los Angeles
March 19th Mercury Lounge, New York
March 21st Glasslands, New York
March 28th Brixton Academy, London w/ Metronomy
March 31st Luxembourg Rockhal, Luxembourg w/ Metronomy
April 1st Melkweg Old Room, Amsterdam, Netherlands w/ Metronomy
April 2nd AB Club, Brussels, Belgium w/ Metronomy
April 3rd The Purcell Rooms, London
April 9th Loppen, Copenhagen, Denmark w/ Metronomy
April 10th Strand, Stockholm, Sweden w/ Metronomy
April 11th Rockerfeller, Oslo, Norway w/ Metronomy
April 25th Gulliver’s, Manchester
April 26th Cathedral, Sheffield
April 27th Bodega Social Club, Nottingham
April 28th Zenith, Paris, France w/ Metronomy
May 7th Louisiana, Bristol
May 8th The Great Escape Festival, Brighton
Press for Woman’s Hour
“Reminiscent of Beach House’s darkly quixotic work, saturated with fragility and painful longing.”
Pitchfork
“Take note of this London band”
USA Today
“Woman’s Hour are the architects of the most intelligent new music we’ve heard this year.”
The Line of Best Fit
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