** The Godspeed You! Black Emperor show originally scheduled for November 22, 2024 at District Music Hall has now officially been postponed to June 27, 2025. All existing tickets will be valid for the new date, and no further action is required on your part. If you cannot attend the new date and would like to request a refund, please email us at customersupport@manicpresents.com with your full name and order number by January 29 and a refund will be issued at point of purchase. No refunds will be issued for requests received after January 29. Thank you! **
This event is General Admission Standing Room Only on the Floor, and Reserved Seated in the Balcony.
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
Godspeed You! Black Emperor released a string of albums from 1997-2002 widely recognized as redefining what protest music can be, where longform instrumental chamber rock compositions of immense feeling and power serve as soundtracks to late capitalist alienation and resistance. The band’s first four releases—especially F#A#∞ (1997) and Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)—are variously regarded as classics of the era and genre. Godspeed’s legendary live performances, featuring multiple 16mm projectors beaming a collage of overlapping analog film loops and reels—along with the distinctive iconography, imagery and tactility of the band’s album artwork and physical LP packages— further defines the sui generis aesthetic substance, ethos and mythos of this group. GY!BE has issued two official band photos in its 25-year existence (the second, below, a 2010 recreation of the first from 1997) and has done a half-dozen collectively-answered written interviews over that same span. The band has never had a website or social media accounts. It has never made a video. Few rock bands in our 21st century have been as steadfast in trying to let the work speak for itself and maintaining simple rules about minimising participation in cultures of personality, exposure, access, commodification or co-optation.
Following a seven-year hiatus that began in 2003, Godspeed returned to the stage in December 2010 (curating the UK festival All Tomorrow’s Parties) and the band’s post-reunion period has now lasted over a decade, marked by hundreds of sold-out live shows and three additional albums, all of which have been met with high acclaim.
Links: Official Website | Spotify
