Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver is set to return to Dublin. Having last played the venue back in 2012, the Wisconsin artist and his band will play 3Arena on Sunday, May 3. Support on the night comes from Big Red Machine, Vernon’s side-project with the National’s Aaron Dessner. Tickets range from €49.50-€54.50 and go on sale at 9am on Friday.
Justin Vernon has written his most personal work in isolation, secluded in a cabin in Northern Wisconsin. In the span of 13 years, the Bon Iver project has empowered him to map his personal growth, archive periods of stress, and mediate addiction and trauma. The fourth iteration of this journey, i,i, reflects on the duality of the self as it navigates a turbulent political landscape. The inner and outer worlds communicate here, and seek to find peace. The band embraced a dramatic move towards experimentation on 2016’s 22 A Million, producing some of their most urgent and effective work. Here,…
Big Red Machine (A Bon Iver + The National collaboration) live at St.Luke’s in Cork as part of Sounds From A Safe Harbour. Photos by Jason Lee.
We have a pair of tickets to give away to Bon Iver at this year’s Sounds From a Safe Harbour in Cork on September 15. Fancy snapping them up? Simply send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: What age is Justin Vernon? Good luck!
With The National already announced, it’s been revealed that Bon Iver will play Cork’s Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival on Friday, September 15. Set to return from September 14-17, more acts for the annual festival – which is curated by Bryce & Aaron Dessner, Cillian Murphy, Enda Walsh and Mary Hicksonare – are yet to be announced. Tickets go on sale via the Cork Opera House website on Wednesday, June 21 at 10am.
Having returned in style back in September with 22, A Million, it’s been announced that Bon Iver will headline and curate the Monday line-up of next year’s Forbidden Fruit festival on June 5. Taking place, as ever, on the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art at The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Justin Vernon’s bill will feature special guests Flying Lotus, Lisa Hannigan, The Staves, Gordi and Paul Thomas Saunders, with more to be announced in the new year. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Monday, December 19 priced €59.50 including booking fee. Limited Early Bird Tickets for Forbidden Fruit…
A label based on aesthetic principles, 4AD has spent over 30 years being everything you think it is not. Initially founded by Ivo Watts Russell in 1980 as a vehicle to release music by bands at the centre of the nascent goth scene, the label quickly established a style and format that would lead to it becoming one of the most iconic record labels of the 80s.With records clad in immaculate Vaughn Oliver sleeves, the label originally specialised in floaty, gothic ambience, before encompassing world music, dance music, and – perhaps most significantly – the cutting edge of the US…