SPIRITUALIZED announce 3Olympia Theatre date in support of upcoming album

English space rock outfit SPIRITUALIZED are tapped to play the 3Olympia Theatre Dublin on May 7th, 2022 in support of forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful.

The new LP lands on 25th February via Bella Union, with the outfit today sharing the video for the album's lead track 'Always Together With You'. The news this year’s acclaimed reissue of their classic first four albums.

The band will embark on an extensive international European & UK tour running from March until May 2022.

While some people imploded in the lockdowns and isolation of the epidemic, others were thriving. “I felt like I’d been in training for this my whole life” says J Spaceman (Jason Pierce).

He was referring to his fondness for isolation. When you reframe loneliness as “beautiful solitude”, it isn’t so bad. The artist would walk through an empty “Roman London” where “even the sirens had stopped singing” and where the world was “full of birdsong and strangeness and no contrails.” He used the birdsong walks to listen and try and make sense of all the music playing in his head. The mixes of his new record, a ninth studio album, weren’t working out yet.

Spaceman plays 16 different instruments on Everything Was Beautiful, which was put down at 11 different studios - as well as at his home. He also employed more than 30 musicians and singers including his daughter Poppy; long-time collaborator and friend John Coxon; string and brass sections; choirs and finger bells and chimes from the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

“There was so much information on it that the slightest move would unbalance it, but going around in circles is important to me. Not like you’re spiralling out of control but you’re going around and around and on each revolution you hold onto the good each time. Sure, you get mistakes as well, but you hold on to some of those too and that’s how you kind of... achieve. Well, you get there.”

Eventually the mixes got there and Everything Was Beautiful was achieved. The result is some of the most “live” sounding recordings that Spiritualized have released since the Live At The Albert Hall record of 1998, around the time of Ladies & Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space.

The opening track 'Always Together With You' is a reworking / supercharging of a track originally released in demo quality in 2014. This new version is the ideal Spiritualized song; a breathtaking, hard edged, psychedelic pop tune where themes of high romance and space travel collide.

Check out the video for 'Always Together With You' below:

SPIRITUALIZED: Everything Was Beautiful artwork & tracklist.

1. Always Together With You
2. Best Thing You Never Had
3. Let It Bleed (For Iggy)
4. Crazy
5. The Mainline Song
6. The A Song (Laid In Your Arms)
7. I’m Coming Home Again

SPIRITUALIZED - Spring 2022 Tour Dates

Wednesday 2nd March – Utrecht – TivoliVredenberg Grote Zaal
Thursday 3rd March – Copenhagen - DR Studie 2
Friday 4th March – Oslo – Parkteatret
Saturday 5th March – Gothenburg – Pustervik
Monday 7th March – Berlin – Passionskirche
Tuesday 8th March – Hamburg – Laeiszhalle
Wednesday 9th March – Cologne – Gloria
Thursday 10th March – Paris - La Gaîté Lyrique
Friday 11th March – Brussels - Ancienne Belgique
Thursday 31 March – Dallas - Granada Theater
Friday 1st April - Austin - Scoot Inn
Sunday 3rd April - Santa Fe - Meow Wolf
Monday 4th April - Denver - Ogden Theatre
Tuesday 5th April - Salt Lake City - The Commonwealth Room
Thursday 7th April - Seattle – Neptune
Friday 8 April - Portland - Revolution Hall
Saturday 9 April - Vancouver - Commodore Ballroom
Thursday 28th April – Bath – The Forum
Friday 29th April – Cambridge – Corn Exchange
Saturday 30th April – Brighton – Dome
Monday 2nd May – Birmingham – Symphony Hall
Wednesday 4th May – Gateshead – Sage
Thursday 5th May – Glasgow – Galvanizers Yard
Saturday 7th May – Dublin – Olympia Theatre - tickets
Sunday 8th May – Manchester – Bridgewater House
Monday 9th May – Nottingham – Royal Concert Hall
Tuesday 10th May – London – Roundhouse