Watch Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry’s tender cowl of The Verve’s ‘Bitter Candy Symphony’
Lauren Mayberry kicked off her US tour in San Diego this week with a canopy of The Verve’s ‘Bitter Candy Symphony’ – see footage under.
The Chvrches vocalist is enjoying a 24-date North American tour over the following 5 weeks and launched it on Tuesday (January 28) with a present at San Diego’s Home Of Blues. See the complete checklist of North American tour dates right here and discover any remaining tickets here.
In direction of the top of her essential set, she performed a young model of Richard Ashcroft and co.’s indie anthem, which was initially launched on their traditional third album ‘City Hymns’ in 1997. Sitting on the piano for the intro, Mayberry takes to the centre stage as the complete band is available in, letting her vocals rip on the tune’s trademark “Have you ever ever been down?” chorus.
See footage of the efficiency right here:
Later in 2025, Mayberry will embark on a run of six headline reveals across the UK, which is able to kick off with a hometown present at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom on March 20.
Dates in Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds will observe, earlier than the run wraps up at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on March 26. Discover tickets for these reveals here.
Mayberry has made one thing of a behavior of enjoying cowl songs at her solo reveals in recent times. Amongst her earlier selections had been Nena’s ‘99 Luftballons’, Depeche Mode’s ‘Private Jesus’, The 1975’s ‘Paris’ in Paris and the Spice Women’ ‘Viva Ceaselessly’ in London.
She additionally made her US TV solo debut final month on Jimmy Kimmel, enjoying ‘One thing In The Air’ from her debut album ‘Vicious Creature’. In a three-star evaluate of that album, NME wrote: “With ‘Vicious Creature’ Mayberry makes an attempt to make sense of all of the issues she “couldn’t or wouldn’t write within the band”, as she shared with NME.”
“Inside that protected area, she discovers a spectrum of beforehand unexplored feelings with free rein to play outdoors the boundaries of Chvrches’ digital soundscapes.”
On going solo after a decade’s value of music along with her essential band, Mayberry informed NME in 2023: “For any frontperson in a band, however particularly a lady, as quickly as you say the phrases ‘solo materials’ individuals get very upset with you. I really feel like each second sentence is, ‘I’m not breaking apart the band, guys, nevertheless…’”
“However we’re fortunate sufficient to have followers that care a lot that they don’t need it to interrupt up. I really feel grateful, however I’m attempting to be reassuring to them – ‘Simply give us a pair extra years guys, it’s going to be wonderful’.” The band final launched ‘Display screen Violence’ in 2021.