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Bright Eyes return with a brand new tour, major reissues and reworkings of old material and, after a two year break due to Covid, a chance to tour their 2020 album, Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was.
Bright Eyes front man Conor Oberst took some time to chat with with RTL Today Radio's Sam Steen ahead of the band's long awaited show at den Atelier which takes place this Sunday the 28th August.
This concert has been a long time coming, originally scheduled before the pandemic, the band obviously had to put their tour plans on hold. Given that it was the first Bright Eyes release in almost a decade, Conor revealed that this enforced hiatus was tough to take and that the material seemed lost somehow.
Lockdown did present some opportunities however, the band changed labels and their entire back catalogue is now available via Dead Oceans. To mark this transition they agreed to re-record and re-imagine a number of songs from each album along with covers of songs that inspired the records. The result? Nine new EPs, fifty four new songs/recordings and a body of work larger and more challenging than Conor first expected...
Listen back to the full interview on RTL Play or through the player below.
Remaining tickets to see Bright Eyes are available here.
