The songwriter ANOHNI is due to visit Dublin this November to play a special Lou Reed show this November.
The show titled Dark Blue ANOHNI Sings Lou Reed, a set celebrating the late great Lou Reed, marking the songwriter’s friendship and collaborations for her first show at the NCH on Tuesday November 26th.
Tickets
Dark Blue ANOHNI Sings Lou Reed
National Concert Hall, Tues. 26th November 8pm
Tickets €40, €49.50, €59.50, €74.50 [10% Discount for NCH Friends Members and Groups of 10 or more]
Pre-sale to NCH Friends and ANOHNI fans – 8th October 10am
ANOHNI’s relationship with Lou Reed stretches back over two decades. In 2003, she was a supporting vocalist on the Animal Serenade tour and performed on a number of tracks on Reed’s Edgar Allan Poe inspired album The Raven. In 2006/2007 she sang backing vocals for Reed’s first full performance of Berlin in New York and Sydney. In addition, Reed contributed vocals and guitar to ‘Fistful of Love’ from I Am a Bird Now.
On March 6th 2013, ANOHNI invited Lou Reed to join her in singing ‘Candy Says’ during an encore at Salle Pleyel in Paris, at what would be his last public performance. ANOHNI’s song ‘Sliver of Ice’ describes her final interaction with the legendary singer and poet.
About ANOHNI
A British-born, New York City based singer, songwriter and visual artist, ANOHNI is best known as the lead singer of ANOHNI and the Johnsons. Her albums I am a Bird (2005) and Hopelessness (2016) were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. In 2016, ANOHNI’s composition ‘Manta Ray’ from the film Racing Extinction was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. ANOHNI’s most recent album My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross was named album of the year by The New Yorker.
Having worked in genres ranging from electronic experimental to avant classical, dance and soul, ANOHNI’s music has been characterized above all by her affecting voice. Across her 30-year career ANOHNI has forged a singular path through popular music, pioneering a vigorous examination of societal structures, spirituality, and our relationship with the biosphere.
“For me, there’s no heavenly respite; Creation is a spectral and feminine continuum, and we remain and inalienable part of Nature.” ANOHNI, 2024
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