The xx
Fillmore Auditorium
June 3
Live Nation is pleased to present The xx at The Fillmore Auditorium on Monday, June 3.
Special guests TBA will open the show. Show time is 8:00 PM. Doors open at 7:00 PM
The
xx exist in a time and space of their own making. In 2009 the south
London trio’s debut album ‘xx’, quietly made at night over the course of
two years, bled steadily into the public consciousness to become
shorthand for newly refined ideas of teenage desire and anxiety.
Articulated with a maturity beyond their years, its hallmarks were
restraint and ambiguity. In the age of the over-share, ‘xx’ was pop with
its privacy settings on max.
Three
years on, Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith are back with a
new album, ‘Coexist’, and a new perspective. Where ‘xx’ lent in close
to whisper in your ear, ‘Coexist’ gazes warmly in your eyes. Much has
happened to lead to this point: most pertinently, they’ve grown up.
While
the fingerprints of their debut album remain, ‘Coexist’s dawn
realizations flicker into life under house music’s gaze, most resonant
on Reunion, Sunset and Swept Away. It also echoes in Romy’s guitar riffs
and Oliver’s bass lines, which circle and build like loops. “That’s
something I love about dance music, how something insignificant can
somehow become profound after the fifth repetition,” says Oliver.
Above
all, though, ‘Coexist’ is an album of confident adult reflection.
Angels, sung by Romy, is a perfectly distilled love song. Its counter is
Fiction led by Oliver, a bittersweet ballad that’s strength lies in
naming its fear. What has changed for The xx? Nothing and everything.
Older and wiser, surer yet still so tender, ‘Coexist’ finds itself on
the other side of heartbreak, when the light returns.
“All
of our friends had been to university and left home,” says Romy. “We
really wanted to do that natural thing that you do when you go to uni or
grow up.” All three moved out of their family homes within two weeks of
being back. They made up for lost time with friends, hung out and
embraced a summer of festivals and shows that Jamie was booked to DJ.
“We were his groupies,” laughs Romy.
Previously
cast as the quietest of the three, Jamie became the public face of The
xx in 2011. In-between DJ gigs, he focused on growing his production
skills, developing a distinct sound and presence. His remix of Adele’s
Rolling In The Deep, re-imagining of Gil Scott-Heron’s final album on
‘We’re New Here’ with its defining single I’ll Take Care Of U, and his
debut solo single Far Nearer set him apart as a highly regarded producer
in his own right. That position was cemented when Drake asked Jamie to
produce the title track of his album ‘Take Care’, inspired by I’ll Take
Care Of U.
Career Highlights include:
•The xx nominated for 2013 Best British Group BRIT Award
•The xx's ""Coexist" score No. 1 on U.K. Album Chart
•The xx receive Best New Music from Pitchfork
TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 @ 10:00 AM
at the Fillmore Auditorium Box Office, online at www.livenation.com or call 800 – 745 - 3000
Tickets are $32.50 GA ADV and $35.00 GA DOS plus applicable service charges.
The
Fillmore box office is open Monday - Friday from 12:00 Noon - 6:00pm
& Saturdays from 10:00am - 2:00pm. On days of Fillmore shows, the
box office is open from 12:00 Noon – 9:00pm.
The box office accepts cash, MasterCard, Visa and American Express – No checks! Service charges may apply.
THE FILLMORE AUDITORIUM IS LOCATED AT 1510 CLARKSON ST. AT COLFAX.
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