Hang Out with Pale Blue Eyes - [UK Tour]

Pale Blue Eyes
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Taken from forthcoming second album ‘This House’
released 1st September 2023 on Full Time Hobby
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On PBE’s second album, the group find joy and pulsing rhythms amid bereavement and geographical relocation. This House is titled after the building on the front cover – the rural Devon home where PBE singer/guitarist Matt Broad grew up and where the band had built a well-equipped DIY recording studio. As the album was being finished, Matt’s mother died, following a heart-breaking degenerative illness. Matt and Lucy had been living at the house, helping to look after his mum.

“When Mum died, five years after Dad, there was this charge hanging in the air, connecting each person in the room,” says Matt. “Time stopped. I felt like I momentarily entered an alternative dimension between life and death. Days and weeks later I’d see my family in every corner of the house – all the reminders, ghosts and memories. Then, gradually, it felt like time for a new start, moving on from the house and my amazing parents.”

New track Hang Out, out now with an accompanying lyric video created by long-term band collaborator Dylan Friese-Green, aims to capture the simplistic wonder of being amongst friends, those care-free pleasures. It’s about “the importance of attempting to just switch-off and enjoy simple moments – the sun on your face, hanging out with friends in the pub or in a field, say the band. “In the good times and the bad there's always the simple pleasure of just hanging out with mates. They can pick you up and inspire you.”

Making music as a means to go on, Pale Blue Eyes’ two albums bookend other significant moments, such as soundtracking the Atmos arts-and-housing project in Totnes (featuring a sound-and-light installation by Brian Eno). There was also the time PBE’s beloved old Citroën blew up between gigs, reinforcing a valuable lesson. “You have to embrace the Berlingo!” says Lucy, rolling out the band’s new motto.

“Change is inevitable,” Matt adds. “You have to embrace it all, the good and bad, and the horribly ugly.”

This House – Track List:
1. More
2. Simmering
3. Hang Out
4. Spaces
5. Heating’s On
6. Our History
7. A Million Times Over
8. Illuminated
9. Sister
10. Takes Me Over
11. Underwater

The band will be playing a handful of in-stores in England during This House’s release week:

6th Sept – Resident, Brighton
7th Sept – Piccadilly, Manchester (4pm show)
7th Sept – Crash, Leeds (evening show)
8th Sept – Drift, Totnes (Outstore)

The band are touring throughout the summer and into winter, tickets and info here.

8th July – Bexhill – Seaview Festival
29th July – Thirsk – Dear Shed Festival

4th August – Bingley – Weekender
5th August – Darlington – Arena (Supporting James, Editors)
13th August – Newquay – Boardmasters Festival

23rd Oct – Bordeaux – Le Krakatoa
24th Oct – Rennes – L’ubu
26th Oct – Paris – L’International
28th Oct – Amsterdam – London Calling Festival

2nd Nov – Hertford – Corn Exchange
3rd Nov – Southampton - Joiners
4th Nov – Leeds – Belgrave Music Hall
5th Nov – Penrith – Brunswick Yard
7th Nov – Newcastle – Cluny
9th Nov – Edinburgh – Mash House
10th Nov – Glasgow – Broadcast
11th Nov – Nottingham – Bodega
12th Nov – Sheffield – Foundry
13th Nov – Oxford – Bullingdon
15th Nov – Birmingham – Hare & Hounds
16th Nov – London – Village Underground
17th Nov – Bristol – Strange Brew
18th Nov – Manchester – Deaf Institute
19th Nov – Brighton - Patterns