Beirut, Gallipoli (live), Fox Theater (Oakland, CA), March 2, 2019 (HD)

Описание: Beirut plays the song "Gallipoli" live in concert at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, California on March 2, 2019. Gallipoli is the title track from their new album (released on February 1). Along with Zach Condon, the band is Nick Petree, Paul Collins, Ben Lanz, Kyle Resnick, and Aaron Arntz.

The song was written in Italy. Zach Condon told this story in an NPR interview: "We were seeing signs for a city called Gallipoli. We get out of the car and we just decided to go for a walk and in that moment we happened to hit a procession. We happened to walk in at the exact moment as the Saint was leaving the church, carried by a bunch of priests. Behind them was this frenetic kind of brass band. [Sound] was bouncing off the walls, and simultaneously every church bell in town was ringing, which just made for utter chaos. And the city is just claustrophobic, streets winding —you would have to live there your whole life to know where you're going. We just got lost with it for an entire night. The next day, I wrote the song I ended up calling 'Gallipoli,' entirely in one sitting, pausing only to eat."

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North American Gallipoli Tour Dates:

Feb. 10 – Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
Feb. 11 – Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
Feb. 12 – Boston, MA - House of Blues
Feb. 14 – Washington, D.C. - The Anthem
Feb. 15 – Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theatre
Feb. 16 – Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
Feb. 18 – Montreal, QC - MTELUS
Feb. 19 – Toronto, ON - Sony Centre
Feb. 21 – Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre
Feb. 22 – Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
Feb. 23 – St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre
Feb. 26 – Vancouver, BC - Orpheum Theatre
Feb. 27 – Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
Feb. 28 – Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
March 2 – Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
March 5 – Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern

European Gallipoli Tour Dates:

March 30 – Berlin, Germany - Funkhaus
March 31 – Berlin, Germany - Funkhaus
April 2 – Brussels, Belgium - Forest National
April 4 – Groningen, Netherlands - De Oosterpoort
April 5 – Paris, France - Le Grand Rex
April 6 – Cologne, Germany - Palladium
April 8 – Utrecht, Netherlands - TivoliVredenburg
April 10 – Manchester, UK - Albert Hall
April 11 – Leeds, UK - Leeds Town Hall
April 12 – London, UK - Eventim Apollo
April 14 – Vienna, Austria - Gasometer
April 15 – Munich, Germany - Zenith
April 17 – Bourges, France - Le Printemps de Bourges
April 18 – Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
April 19 – Zurich, Switzerland - Volkshaus

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Gallipoli lyrics:

We tell tales to belong
Or be spared the sorrow

You're so fair to be behold
What will be left when you're gone?

And it changed everything you know
How we were when the wonders who love
Southern land, scattered clouds from the cold
And, oh, oh, oh, spare me the glow

Written by Zach Condon

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Beirut official bio:

To celebrate the release of Gallipoli, Beirut will play headline shows throughout North America and Europe in 2019 - including a gig in the iconic Fox Theater.

Zach Condon, the mastermind behind Beirut, releases his fifth studio album Gallipoli on February 1, 2019.

The 12-track Gallipoli started life in the winter of 2016, with Condon returning to his old Farfisa organ, the same one used to write the first two Beirut albums (2006’s Gulag Orkestar and the following year’s The Flying Club Cup).

Following recording stints in New York and Berlin (where he now calls home), Condon settled in Sudestudio, a studio complex deep in rural Puglia, southern Italy. It was here that he rediscovered the old joys of music as a visceral experience which became the founding principle for Gallipoli.

Available now, Gallipoli’s title track is a cathartic embrace of old and new. Condon says, “We stumbled into the medieval-fortressed island town of Gallipoli one night and followed a brass band procession fronted by priests carrying a statue of the town’s saint through the winding narrow streets behind what seemed like the entire town. The next day I wrote the song entirely in one sitting, pausing only to eat.”