Last night Bon Iver played the biggest show of his career to date at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire. One of the most mesmerising shows TLOBF has seen in a long, long time. We think Justin was as moved as the few thousand people who witnessed it. Review coming soon – I for one am still finding it difficult to string a coherent sentence together… In the meantime – we have great pleasure in announcing this ‘lil tid bit. Literally just hit our inbox..
London, Friday 12 September 2008 – The critically acclaimed Bon Iver have today announced that they will be one of the first live music acts to perform a very special and intimate show at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre on the 7th December.
Bon Iver (an intentional mis-spelling / adaptation of ‘Bon Hiver’, French for ‘Good Winter’) is the work of Justin Vernon, a former member of Wisconsin quartet DeYarmond Edison. Vernon, who wrote the material in 2006 whilst living in a log cabin, used very little equipment – just a couple of microphones, a baritone guitar, two drums, a horn, a reverb pedal. These few items, when combined with enough space, allowed the songs that form this record become far more than sum of their parts.
Vernon explains : “I recognize that the record is enigmatic and special in a strange way. I can’t take full credit for it, and I was the only one there.”
And there was much rejoicing!
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Oh man, I want to go to this :D
Any clues as to when tickets go onsale?
Oh, they already are. Shhh…