Godspeed You! Black Emperor Returns to the Twin Cities on 11/9/24

Godspeed You! Black Emperor have begun their North American tour and are headed back to the Twin Cities. The Canadian ensemble will be playing at the Palace Theatre in Saint Paul on November 9, 2024. The band released their 9th album, "NO​ ​TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28​,​340 DEAD",  earlier this month and have it the road in support of this new album.

Alan Sparhawk (of Low) will tagging along as the opener for this tour.

Doors open for this 18+ show at 7:00pm with music starting at 8:00pm.

Tickets are still available here, starting at $35. 

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, left, 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 four additional albums, all of which have been met with high acclaim.

"NO​ ​TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28​,​340 DEAD" – the band’s fifth post-reunion album (and ninth overall) – was released on October 04, 2024.