Photo credit: Rosalie Knox, 2004
It’s been just over four years since Animal Collective performed a full-on live show. However, next month the group will remedy this. Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin will play a gig on each coast.
Animal Collective will appear at Queens’ Knockdown Center on October 22 and at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre on October 24. The two performances will celebrate the group’s 2005 album Feels. Last year, the quartet curated a reissue of Feels with a bonus disc that collected nine B-sides and some previously unreleased demos.
The band notes, “When we celebrated the Feels 20th Anniversary edition last year, people often asked, ‘Why aren’t you performing it live?’ It was a good question, and honestly, one we just hadn’t asked ourselves. We were so used to our schedules not lining up that we didn’t consider it. But yeah, why didn’t we? The celebration felt incomplete to you all, and to us too. ‘We can relearn this album,’ we said. ‘We can find old loops, tunings, pedals, and a working minidisc player to grab old sounds. Then maybe if a small window of time opens up…’ Now it has, and we’re going to play the album in full (as well as some extras from the time) in NYC and LA this October. A 21st birthday party. We know only playing two shows in the two biggest cities in the states leaves a lot of you without an option to come out. We sincerely wish everyone who wants to see these shows could do so, and we’re sorry we can’t make that happen for you. As we said above, we only have a short window to get together right now. We’ll see how it goes and how the future shapes up down the road. For those who can come out, accept our deepest thanks, and we’ll see you down by the swimming pool.”
Tickets to the Feels Live shows will be available via artist and local pre-sale tomorrow Thursday, September 10 at 10 AM local time (sign-up links are here), with a general on-sale to follow on Friday at 10 AM local.
