Jonsi of Sigur Rós in Italy, 2022
Photo: Getty Images, Francesco Prandoni. All rights reserved.
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Sigur Rós will release their first album in ten years this June (if you don’t count the orchestral project Odin’s Raven Magic). In addition, it’s going on another EU and USA world tour: with an orchestra! The Icelanders have it on their Twitter and Instagram Pages and made public in a video on YouTube. According to the statement, a few songs from the upcoming new record will also be presented live. Ticket sales for the tour begin Friday, March 24th.
The announcement video:
Sigur Rós on world tour: here are the dates
According to the report, the tour will start at the “Meltdown” festival in Great Britain, where the band will perform with the London Contemporary Orchestra. This will also accompany them on the following European tour dates.
Today, Sigur Rós have announced a limited run of very special dates, performed with a 41-piece orchestra in both Europe and North America. You can expect a new album in June, the first studio album in 10 years. https://t.co/hZZFtxlqBp pic.twitter.com/H49I8DhMPa
— Sigur Rós (@sigurros) March 16, 2023
The tour in Europe
- 16 June, London, UK – Royal Festival Hall (Meltdown Festival)
- June 17, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Concertgebouw (Holland Festival)
- June 18, Hamburg, Germany – Elbphilharmonie
- July 3, Paris, France – Philharmonie de Paris (Days Off Festival)
The tour in the USA
- August 14, Toronto, ON – Roy Thomson Hall
- August 16, New York City, NY—Beacon Theatre
- August 18, Brooklyn, NY – King’s Theatre
- August 19, Boston, MA – Wang Theater
- August 21, Minneapolis, MN – State Theatre
- August 24, Seattle, WA – Paramount Theater
- August 26, Berkeley, CA – The Greek Theater at UC Berkeley
- August 28, Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre
More about Sigur Rós
Already in October 2o22 the band announced a new edition of their third studio album “( )” for the 20th anniversary. The 2002 reissue of the album was remastered by engineer Ted Jenson and includes B-sides and previously unreleased demos.
Their seventh and current album, Kveikur, was released in 2013. At the end of 2020, the band presented their orchestral project “Odin’s Raven Magic”.
Last year, singer and guitarist Jón Þór “Jónsi” Birgisson, bassist Georg Hólm and keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson embarked on their first world tour together in a long time, celebrating the return of their keyboardist after he hadn’t been part of the band for a decade. Later in the set, they also introduced the tracks “Gold 2”, “Gold 4” and “Angelus 4” – all new singles that had not yet been released.
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