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Bright Eyes Really Provides a Reason to Look on the Bright Side at L.A.’s Greek: Concert Review

By Jeff Miller

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It’s tempting, and not entirely inaccurate, to cast Bright Eyes ‘ excellent show at the Greek Theater in L.A. Thursday night as part of a redemption story in progress. The band’s current tour — its first major outing supporting 2020’s also terrific “Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was” album — has had some uncertainty and suspense built into it. At a Houston date about a month ago, founder-frontman Conor Oberst made headlines by leaving the stage after just two songs, with his band halfheartedly attempting to lead audience members Bright Eyes karaoke before the towel was thrown in. Some tour stops prior to that one proved worrying, like one in Nashville where Oberst, apparently inebriated, bashed the city’s beloved Ryman Auditorium while playing on its very stage.

Reports from the road since that news-making Houston gig have suggested that this erraticism has been corrected. Still, even the most faithful of Oberst’s dedicated fan base — now, like the songwriter himself, squarely in or approaching middle age, but still full of heartache and agita — might have come to the L.A. show with less than utter certainty it would be a triumph. But it was, from the first notes of the opener, “Dance and Sing,” which found Oberst wandering the stage miming his lyrics and propelling himself into half-awkward, half-hilarious dance moves as his crack band, abetted by a full 12-piece orchestra, played through the wily song. Moving with confidence, playing with heart, and still foraging his woe-is-me persona in a wholly relatable way, Oberst proved that Bright Eyes isn’t a sad-sack story, even if his best songs often fall into that category. (He’s also still an unlikely sex symbol: “take off your shirt!” was screamed as he walked on stage, replaced halfway through the show by “take off your pants!” Oberst obliged neither.)

At the peak of his popularity in the early-to-mid 2000s, Oberst was often compared to Bob Dylan for his songwriting prowess and affinity for classic song form and structure, but on this tour it’s clear he shares another trait with the Bard: the desire to rearrange classic songs to keep them fresh, and keep his audience on its toes. With the help of the horn section, “Another Travelin’ Song” was a runaway train rather than a peppy meander. “First Day Of My Life,” arguably the band’s biggest hit, was pared down to just its core and then abetted by a flautist, the hopeful lyrics taking on wisps of melancholy as they lived in an arrangement that felt unsettled rather than optimistic.

The songs on “Down In The Weeds…” are as strong as any in Oberst’s back catalog, and here fit snugly in the set. “Mariana Trench,” notably, feels like it will become a mainstay in the Bright Eyes canon, with the orchestra nimbly backing Oberst through every warbly-voiced lyric.

At the end of the set, before the encore closer “One for You, One for Me,” Oberst went into the front row and warmly introduced himself to a fan named Kate before a brief monologue about the connection between all people. During the song, at its peak moment, he went back into the audience and sang directly to her, “You and me / You and me.” It’s the sort of directness an audience goes to a concert hoping to witness; on this night, more than most, it felt, also, like a true rekindling.

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Live Review: Bright Eyes and the new The Admiral Theater…

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by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

As much as some things change, some things never change. Like finding parking around The Admiral f.k.a. Sokol Auditorium.

I didn’t get down there Saturday night for the Bright Eyes concert until well after 9 p.m. and was thrown into a time warp circa the early 2000s, driving the same back streets I did back then, looking for a parking space. I remembered my ol’ standby about three blocks southwest of the auditorium. Wasn’t there a church there before? And where did this high-rise condo/apartment building come from?

Neighbors were out on their stoops, getting ready to watch street fireworks. “ You going to the show? ” a young lady said while her husband chatted up a neighbor across the street, a baby in his arms.

“Sure am.” I said.

“ Well, have a good time! ”

Ah, that South Omaha charm, it never fades.

The building’s exterior hadn’t changed at all. Security was out front on the sidewalk checking IDs for drinkers, and someone asked to see my Vax card (few if any wore masks in the audience). Once inside, I emptied my pockets and lifted my seed cap to a guy holding a scanning wand, wondering how long the line must have been an hour earlier.

Once past the stairway and into the actual hall and you’re met with what feels like a new facility. The biggest updates on first glance were the fresh coat of paint (gilded gold along the balcony and the stage crown) and the gorgeous, new enormous bar in the north end of the building where the gym used to be (Note: no Rolling Rock. I settled for an $8 Stella tallboy).

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Bright Eyes already was on stage when I entered. So the big question: How did the room sound? I’m no audiophile, but it sounded more balanced and less boomy than I remembered. The PA speakers are now flown from the ceiling, and there’s an enormous new soundboard. It sounded as good as any large performance venue in Omaha, heard through my earplugs because the high volume.

The first thing I noticed missing from stage — Mike Mogis. Turns out he got COVID and missed the show — a real bummer.

Frontman Conor Oberst was his usual shambolic self, doing his new, weird solo dance during “Dance and Sing,” that looked forced and unnatural. You know what they say, dance like no one is looking. And that’s exactly what he did.

Showing high energy to the point of being jittery, Oberst’s voice was a bit frayed, especially on the more energetic numbers. He was backed by a small orchestra and a band that included MiWi La Lupa on multiple instruments, amazing drummer Jon Theodore (Queens of the Stone Age, ex-The Mars Volta), and Nate Walcott, who played the Paul Shaffer role as the pseudo bandleader giving cues from across the stage.

The 2022 version of Bright Eyes includes Oberst performing a number of songs with only microphone in hand — not behind a piano or a guitar. That freed him to do his wonky dancing and odd hand gestures, running to and fro across the stage. Oberst was at his best seated at a piano or playing guitar, more relaxed and more natural. In fact, as big and bombastic as this version of Bright Eyes is, I’d prefer to see the band stripped back down to Mike, Nate, Conor, MiWi and that drummer, just like the good ol’ days.

You can see the full set list below, which for the most part followed what he’s been playing on tour (with a couple order changes). The highlight was a modernized version of “Neely O’Hara” pushed forward by a very cool electric guitar counter melody. It was followed by a stripped-down version of “First Day of My Life” that had the crowd singing along.

I’ve been going to Bright Eyes concerts for 25 years, and this was one of the more downcast set lists I can remember — lots of slower, darker songs. On stage Oberst acknowledged his ongoing pessimism/sarcasm, and punctuated it with his usual between-song political rants, which we’ve all heard before and all agree with.

He strayed from politics only a few times. Once reminiscing about living in the apartment house on 40th and Farnam nicknamed the Jerk Store back in ’98 and ’99 (and where I first interviewed him while Joe Knapp practiced music somewhere upstairs). The other was toward the end of the set where he acknowledged the new Admiral. “ I’ve played here a thousand times ,” he said. “I wouldn’t call what I’m feeling ‘deja vu’ as much as ‘The Twilight Zone. ’”

The band stuck to their usual three-song encore and then the lights went up and I could see the Admiral a bit better.

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The floor was the same as I remembered, as was the chandelier. With everyone filing out the security guard let me see the balcony — maybe the biggest improvement of the entire remodel. It’s completely different, with a new built-out bar that runs along the building’s east wall and windows, and is amazing. It’s like a small club separated yet open to the balcony. The actual balcony wings were the same, though now you can see into the backstage area (maybe you always could?).

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Balcony tickets were $75 vs. the $45 general admission. Definitely worth the splurge for the right band. I’m not sure Bright Eyes fits the bill. That said, I’ve never been a fan of watching performances from the balcony. It’s too isolated, too separated from what’s going on down on the floor.

Which brings up one more big improvement at The Admiral. Friday’s show was crowded — probably a sell out. In years’ past, shows like that at Sokol Auditorium would have been a test to endure the heat and humidity. The Admiral’s HVAC did yeoman’s duty, keeping the place relatively cool and air well-circulated — which is even more important considering how COVID is beginning to spike again in Douglas County.

Jim Johnson and Marc Leibowitz — the masterminds behind the renovation — looked like a couple proud papas. They should be proud. They’ve created a jewel of a live performance space and saved a piece of Omaha history in the process. And they did it the old-fashioned way — as part of a team of investors who put their own money on the table along with their sweat and blood. That takes enormous courage after what this city — and this country — has been through. I have no doubt the gamble will pay off.

Check out their shiny new website . Looking at their calendar, I see more Admiral in my future. On my radar: Sunny Day Real Estate Sept. 14, Kurt Vile and the Violators Oct. 20 and Godspeed You! Black Emperor Nov. 4., which, by then, will mean trudging through snow drifts to get back to our car.

Here’s the setlist from the July 2 Bright Eyes show at The Admiral:

Dance and Sing Lover I Don’t Have to Love Bowl of Oranges Mariana Trench Old Soul Song (for the New World Order) One and Done Falling Out of Love at This Volume No One Would Riot for Less Haile Selassie Persona non grata Tilt-a-Whirl Stairwell Song Neely O’Hara First Day of My Life The Calendar Hung Itself Comet Song

Encore : Ladder Song I Believe in Symmetry One for You, One for Me

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We got there around 7:20 and there was no line! Fantastic show!

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Live Review: Bright Eyes w/ Christian Lee Hudson @ The Anthem — 4/9/22

Live Review: Bright Eyes w/ Christian Lee Hudson @ The Anthem — 4/9/22

Introducing “Mariana Trench,” Conor Oberst, the lyricist/vocalist for Omaha-bred indie folk band Bright Eyes said, “There’s been a lot more ups than downs these last few years.”  “Mariana Trench” is the fourth track on the band’s newest album,  Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was , and it was also the fourth song played by the band in their recent set at The Anthem.

Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was was released after a long hiatus — it had been nine years since the release of their previous album, 2011’s The People’s Key — in 2020. As Conor drolly pointed out, it did not go particularly well. They were only now getting to tour behind that album.

During those intervening years, Conor had stayed busy with other projects. He released four solo albums between 2012 and 2017, Payola with the Desaperacidos in 2015, and  Better Oblivion Community Center with Phoebe Bridgers in 2019.

Even though Down In The Weeds came out 20 months ago, it’s still “new,” as far as playing the material in front of audiences, as Conor said at The Anthem on April 9, so the set drew heavily from the record. Conor opened the set on a high, celebratory note with the joyous “Dance and Sing,” the second track on the record. Other tracks from the album included “Stairwell Song,” “One and Done,” “Pan and Broom,” “Persona Non Grata,” and “Comet Song,” which closed the main set.

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The set, as Conor acknowledged, was lengthy, but so he said, were Marvel movies, which all seem to be 2.5 or 3 hours. This made for plenty of room for old favorites. “The Calendar Hung Itself,” he explained, is about his “first romantic heartbreak,” which happened when he was a teenager. It’s a little strange, he said, to still sing about now, at the age of 42. Heartbreak is a frequent subject of his writing, as in “Falling Out of Love At This Volume.” “Another Traveling Song,” he told the audience is about his ex-wife, Mark Twain, and telescopes.

Other material from Bright Eyes’ back catalog included “Method Acting,” “Bowl of Oranges,” “Something Vague,” “Four Winds,” “Arienette,” “Jejune Stars,” “Shell Games,” and “Poison Oak.” The encore began with the band’s best known song, “The First Day of My Life,” which has been featured on TV, in film, and in commercials. Conor explained the title of the next song, “I Believe In Symmetry,” saying that he believes in it, despite his general cynicism, “because it’s beautiful.” They closed the evening with “Easy/Lucky/Free.”

Watch the official music video for “Easy/Lucky/Free” by Bright Eyes on YouTube:

Before Bright Eyes took the stage, indie folk artist Christian Lee Hutson performed an opening set. Hutson has long been associated with Oberst, opening for Greater Oblivion Community Center when they performed at the Black Cat in 2019. He released his first album, Beginners , in 2020, and the follow-up, Quitters , just this month.

His set featured several songs from that record, beginning with opening track “Strawberry Lemonade,” followed by “Creature Feature.” “Cherry,” he explained was about “quitting your job” and about an Instagram page called “Sibling Are Dating” that posts pictures of siblings where it appears that the siblings pictured are in a relationship. Christian emphasized that he does not approve of incest. He finished his set with another new song, “State Bird.”

Watch the official music video for “State Bird” by Christian Lee Hutson on YouTube:

Christian also played several songs from the first album: “Lose This Number,” “Northsiders,” “Age Difference,” and “Get the Old Band Back Together,” which he said is about a friend named Nate Wolcott, who was kicked out of a band after he took a job as a Santa Monica building inspector.

The 14-piece orchestra accompanying Bright Eyes made this a very special show, allowing the band to showcase their songs in a way the audience had never heard them before, and will, in all likelihood, never hear them again. For the band’s dedicated, passionate following, this was a very special evening.

Here are some pictures of Christian Lee Hutson performing at The Anthem on April 9, 2022. All photos copyright and courtesy of David LaMason. (Keep scrolling for pictures of Bright Eyes!)

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Last Friday, a long-awaited return was in order at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium;  Bright Eyes , the seminal indie-folk project led by Conor Oberst and rounded out by contributors Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, was finally due to return to the Music City after their 2020 reunion was derailed by COVID-19. The nearly sold-out crowd was radiating with anticipation all through opener  Christian Lee Hutson’s set (which was great, and we’ll mention below), merch lines wrapped around the queues multiple times over, and there was a general sense of unpredictability in the air as the crowd settled in to take in the set. Past setlists and tales of their brief 2021 touring experience indicated a night where no one was really sure what they were getting — in a beautiful venue like the Ryman, we simply were sitting down to take what was given to us by the mercurial singer-songwriter.

At 9:15p on the nose, Oberst  and his 11-piece band (which included a full chamber orchestra and regular collaborators like  Miwi La Lupa  and  Macey Taylor ) strutted onto the stage. After a brief tuneup that sounded as if a full orchestra was in our presence,  Bright Eyes launched into “Dance and Sing” off of 2020’s  Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was , and we were off to the races. As a longtime fan of the project, I can confidently say that every era of  Bright Eyes was given to us over the course of a rambling, exciting two-hour-long set. Immediate highlights were the band went deep in the discography to records like Cassadega or  Fevers and Mirrors. In one moment, you might get the soft folk of “Poison Oak”, followed by the 80s anthemic cosplay of “Shell Games”. It was an exciting setlist that never really dipped as long as they were performing. The band behind Oberst was also in peak performance mode; it felt as if the Ryman walls were caving in at points, with brass sections colliding with the multi-instrumental prowess of Mogis in a fit of cacophonous joy. At the center of it all was Oberst, who was in rare form (and probably a little intoxicated) as he acted as the ringleader of the  Bright Eyes circus. There are plenty of different accounts of this show online that raised some concerns within the fanbase because it was not without controversy — frequently, Oberst would talk for minutes in between his set, and his comments tended to disparage the Ryman and Nashville as a whole. Whether commenting on the past racism of the Ryman (“I told those motherfuckers I would never play here again as long as that Confederate bullshit was here”) reflections on experiences on the road so far (“Every night I show up to play these songs and I’m never completely sure what they’re about”) or a humorous (to-a-point) longstanding beef with Jack White and Dan Auerbach that found  Oberst  proto-noodling on hackey blues riffs, he toed the line between creating an enjoyable look at the mind of one of our most beloved songwriters and generally making laughter of himself. However — that’s what you get with Bright Eyes . You don’t come for a clean-cut, by-the-books rundown of the songs you’ve heard before. You come to drink, laugh, and cry as one of the most brilliant songwriters of our generation puts his heart on display. One hopes that  Oberst  is doing well and the return to the limelight won’t be too bright for him, but the euphoric and chaotic experience of their Ryman show illustrated them as a band that we desperately needed in the fold again.

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Christian Lee Hutson opened the night up with a stellar set celebrating the release of his sophomore album  Quitters , which came out that day on ANTI-. This set was a much more mellow affair, led by Hutson’s marvelous guitar-playing and vivid story-telling lyricism that won over the crowd in his Ryman debut. With a three-piece band, Hutson fleshed out songs off of the new album along with old favorites from  Beginners , his album released in 2020 as the world fell apart. As this was one of the first tours behind that record, there was a sense of inventiveness tied to the live arrangements of his music — scattered, skittering drums on “Northsiders” and the intense jam session at the end of “Strawberry Lemonade” were examples of an artist slowly honing their craft, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him headlining the Ryman very soon. Check out our photos of the night below:

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Review: Bright Eyes' songs, featuring frontman Conor Oberst, 'read like poetic candy'

Bright Eyes finished its set proper last night during a two-hour show in Kemba Live with frontman Conor Oberst singing, “You’re approaching even as you disappear.”

The line wasn’t so spectacular, given the dozens that came before. But it summed things up. The primary songwriter in the band, the bookish Oberst not only has a penchant for high drama but also an obsession with targeting life’s disappointments as well as its always-at-arm’s-length blessings. With an extended, 14-piece version of Bright Eyes and his froggy voice, he delivered those lines with passion and elegance last night.

The band’s new album “Down in the Weeds, Where The World Once Was” is the group’s first in nine years. Given the COVID shut-down, the tour is the first opportunity the band has had to perform it on the road since its 2020 release.

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Bright Eyes has a long history. It formed in 1998, when Oberst was 18; the songwriter had been compiling material since he was 15.

With the band and on his own with a half-dozen brilliant solo albums, the Omaha native has explored the weighty issues of being human. The scenarios in his songs are sometimes surreal, dropping references from literature, cinema and history like crumbs along the path to their deciphering. When they lose their narrative way, though, they still read like poetic candy.

If all this sounds slightly ponderous, Bright Eyes presented it last night with a bounty of styles, rich arrangements for its full string and horn section, and a singer who obviously lived each and every line.

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Mike Mogis, a key and original member was impressive on a variety of instruments, including guitar, mandolin, and steel guitar. A respected producer in his own right, he surely partnered in the impressive presentation last night.

The arrangements never left anyone out in the cold. This was the rare performance utilizing a string section in a rock concert that was integral in the mix. It was never lost in the sound and always significant in the songs’ swing. And the charts covered a lot of territory, from the train song shuffle of one Dylanesque song to the fat, soulful Van Morrison vibe in another.

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At the center of it all, though, was Oberst, delivering his phrases like his life depended on it. He mused with wonder when the memories of a romance were still fresh and he remembered disappointment as though it was yesterday. In one song he screamed “Ha ha ha,” sounding like Marlon Brando berating Blanche DuBois in “Streetcar Named Desire.”

“Here is a love song,” he said in the introduction to “Stairwell Song.” “We still have a few of these.” But it was a love song from Oberst-ville, ending with, “you just packed your bags one day/didn’t bother to explain … you like cinematic endings.”

Christian Lee Hutson, who partnered with Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers in the group Better Oblivion Community Center and wrote a song for Bridgers’ super-group boygenius opened with a short set of sentimental but well-crafted songs.

This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes performed a passionate concert in Columbus

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Bright Eyes have announced a 2022 tour across the United States. One dollar of every ticket from these shows will go to the Downtown Women’s Center in Los Angeles . It’s their latest run of dates behind their 2020 album Down In the Weeds, Where the World Once Was . Find ticket information and the tour itinerary below.

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03-23 St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre 03-24 Milwaukee, WI - The Riverside Theater 03-25 Madison, WI - The Sylvee 03-26 Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre 03-30 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant 03-31 Louisville, KY - Paristown Hall 04-01 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium 04-03 Columbus, OH - Express Live! 04-05 Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE 04-07 Boston, MA - Roadrunner 04-08 Philadelphia, PA - The Met 04-09 Washington, D.C. - The Anthem 04-10 Norfolk, VA - The NorVa 08-12 Oslo, Norway - Øyafestivalen 2022 08-14 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega 08-16 Hamburg, Germany - Fabrik 08-17 Prague, Czech Republic - Lucerna Music Bar 08-19 Berlin, Germany - Tempodrom 08-20 Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp 08-22 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso 08-23 Cologne, Germany - Carlswerk Victoria 08-25 Vienna, Austria - Arena Open Air 08-26 Munich, Germany - Muffathalle 08-27 Zurich, Switzerland - X-Tra 08-30 London, England - Eventim Apollo 08-31 Manchester, England - O2 Apollo 09-01 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street 09-05 Birmingham, England - O2 Institute Birmingham 09-06 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland

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After reuniting for their first live shows in nearly a decade last year, the Conor Oberst-led band continues the festivities into 2022

Bright Eyes Announce 2022 US Tour Dates

Bright Eyes are finishing what they started — their comeback tour, that is. After performing their first live sets in nearly a decade last year, the Conor Oberst-led trio are continuing the reunion fun with another leg of US tour dates in 2022.

This leg of the tour will see Bright Eyes return to some cities they missed last fall, including St. Paul, Columbus, Chicago, Nashville, Boston, and more. To make things better, the band — which also still includes longtime members Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott — are partnering with Plus1 so that $1 from each ticket sold benefits the Downtown Women’s Center , which serves and empowers women experiencing homelessness in the greater Los Angeles area.

A ticket pre-sale begins Wednesday, December 8th via Ticketmaster (pre-sale code: SOCIAL), ahead of the general on-sale on Friday, December 10th.

These shows follow Bright Eyes’ last album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was , which marked the emo/folk veterans’ first full-length release in nearly ten years.

Last summer, just ahead of their show at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, Oberst and Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield chatted with  Consequence  about their creative processes and returning to touring post-pandemic. Earlier this year, Bright Eyes shared a beautiful cover of Vic Chesnutt’s “Flirted with You All My Life.”

Bright Eyes 2022 Tour Dates: 03/23 – St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre 03/24 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Riverside Theater 03/25 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee 03/26 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre 03/30 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant 03/31 – Louisville, KY @ Paristown Hall 04/01 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium 04/03 – Columbus, OH @ Express Live! 04/05 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE 04/07 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner 04/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met 04/09 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem 04/10 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa

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Bright Eyes is back after a long hiatus

A decade between albums is beyond an eternity in the world of music. “Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was,” Bright Eyes’ first album in nine years, finally dropped in 2020.

“We never broke up,” multi-instrumentalist Nate Wolcott said while calling from Syracuse, New York. “We just took a break. It was healthy for us. We had a lot to get out of our system.”

Singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, who launched Bright Eyes as a bedroom project in 1995, released a couple of solo albums, which he toured behind. Oberst also formed Better Oblivion Community Center, an underheralded side project with Phoebe Bridgers.

Wolcott focused on “The Stand” soundtrack he recorded with fellow Bright Eyes member Mike Mogis. Wolcott also spent considerable time on a Bright Eyes album reissue project that involved the production of nine companion EPs, which featured Bridgers and such indie darlings as M. Ward and Waxahatchee.

“Mike and I had our hands full,” Wolcott said. “It was a great period.”

Wolcott also toured the world with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

“Going out and playing with those guys was just amazing,” Wolcott said. “I had the greatest time. Incredible experiences throughout all of those years, but sooner or later we had to get back with Bright Eyes.”

Oberst, Wolcott and Mogis started work on “Down in the Weeds” in 2018. “It took us quite a while to write and record this album,” Wolcott said. “When we finished it, the pandemic hit. We’re so happy to finally be on the road with this record.”

The band’s 10th album is a logical follow-up to 2011’s “The People’s Key.”

Much of the new album is quirky, poignant and some of the best songs are melancholy, just like the best of Bright Eyes albums.

“It’s a Bright Eyes album,” Wolcott said. “You hear that immediately.”

It’ll be curious to see if Bright Eyes donates its time for shows helping raise political awareness prior to the midterm elections in November.

“If you have any ideas about those sort of events, let me know,” Wolcott said. “You know we’re up for that kind of stuff.”

Bright Eyes was part of the Vote for Change Tour in 2004 on a bill with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as well as Michael Stipe. The liberal rockers backed former Secretary of State and Sen. John Kerry who lost his bid for the presidency to incumbent George W. Bush.

“It’s funny since I just saw a photo of myself and (late E Street Band member) Clarence Clemons from that tour,” Wolcott said. “We did all that we could to support (Kerry). It just didn’t work out. It was depressing.”

But Wolcott was hit even harder when Donald Trump became U.S. president.

“I was on tour with the (Red Hot) Chili Peppers in Amsterdam when I heard the news,” Wolcott said. “I just cried. I’m hoping things get better, not worse politically. It’s going to be a fascinating year.”

Don’t expect Bright Eyes, which appears Thursday at the Knitting Factory, to take such a long break between albums since they have material for the next album.

“Nothing is planned, but I think we’ll be back much sooner with the follow-up to this album,” Wolcott said.

Bright Eyes appears Thursday, June 16, at the Knitting Factory, at 919 W. Sprague Ave. Hurray for the Riff Raff will open. Tickets are $39.50. The show time is 8 p.m. For more information, call (509) 244-3279 or visit www.sp.knittingfactory.com.

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Bright Eyes are hitting the road again.

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The Omaha, Nebraska-born indie rock band has announced 13 shows for their upcoming tour, beginning in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 2 and concluding in Norfolk, Virginia on April 10.

According to a statement about the 2022 dates: “For the tour, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott are partnering with Plus1 so that $1 from every ticket sold will go to the Downtown Women’s Center in Los Angeles.”

The band released its most recent LP Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was in 2020. American Songwriter talked with Bright Eyes frontman, Oberst about their 11th studio album. See the full story HERE .

“Even to this day,” Oberst said, reflecting on the band’s 2020 album, “I think songwriting is giving yourself this space to daydream and access that part of your mind which is less linear and less logical and a little more free-floating. I’ve always loved language, even in grade school, writing these little poems and things before I ever started writing songs. You can express something in so many different ways.”

He added: “I’ll say I definitely write less songs than I did when I was 20. So, I suppose output-wise, I’ve slowed down a bit. But I think that’s OK, too. When I do work on things, they’re a little more deliberate and focused than when I was younger. There are real touchstones throughout this new album that I think most people who are into the band will feel like it’s the band again! ” 

The band’s latest song release was a cover of Vic Chestnutt’s “Flirted With You All My Life,” which you can check out below.

Tickets for the tour go on sale Friday (December 10) and are available HERE .

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BRIGHT EYES FULL TOUR DATES:

DATE:                         CITY:                           VENUE:

Wed Mar 23                St. Paul, MN               Palace Theatre

Thu Mar 24                 Milwaukee, WI            The Riverside Theater

Fri Mar 25                   Madison, WI                The Sylvee

Sat Mar 26                  Chicago, IL                 Chicago Theatre

Wed Mar 30                St. Louis, MO              The Pageant

Thu Mar 31                 Louisville, KY              Paristown Hall

Fri Apr 1                      Nashville, TN              Ryman Auditorium

Sun Apr 3                    Columbus, OH            Express Live!

Tue Apr 5                    Pittsburgh, PA             Stage AE

Thu Apr 7                    Boston, MA                 Roadrunner

Fri Apr 8                      Philadelphia, PA         The Met

Sat Apr 9                     Washington, DC         The Anthem

Sun Apr 10                  Norfolk, VA                 The NorVa

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Fall is in full swing.

The leaves have changed color, pumpkin-flavored goods are lining grocery store shelves, and ultimate autumnal group Bright Eyes is midway through their short Fall Tour.

However, all good things must come to an end.

Bright Eyes, led by frontman Conor Oberst, has just seven shows remaining on their 2022 tour calendar at the time of publication.

So, if you want to see the indie folk-emo rockers live, we found the cheapest tickets for each upcoming concert on Vivid Seats before they call it quits for the year.

Best of all, some of these affordable tickets can be found for as low as $16 before fees .

So, take a look below to see if the group that brought the world “First Day Of My Life” is coming to a venue near you this November.

Bright Eyes 2022 tour schedule

Wednesday, Nov. 9 at History in Toronto, Canada

Tickets start at $16

Thursday, Nov. 10 at the Corona Theatre in Montreal, Canada

Tickets start at $33

Friday, Nov. 11 at The Strand Ballroom and Theatre in Providence, RI

Tickets start at $56

Saturday, Nov. 12 at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, NY

Tickets start at $49

Sunday, Nov. 13 at State Theatre in Portland, ME

Tickets start at $50

Monday, Nov. 14 at Baltimore Soundstage in Baltimore, MD

Tickets start at $42

Wednesday, Nov. 16 at Union Transfer in Philadelphia, PA

Tickets start at $44

(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout .)

Bright Eyes new music

From 2011-2020, Bright Eyes fans suffered through the group’s almost ten-year hiatus.

However, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott came back in a big way in 2020, releasing the 14-song album “Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was.”

Pitchfork praised the record saying, “Conor Oberst and company have not lost their taste for grandiosity on their first album in nearly a decade.”

Since “DITW, WTWOW” came out, the three-piece outfit has been fairly prolific, dropping singles and collaborations with Phoebe Bridgers and companion albums with regularity.

We recommend checking out the arresting companion version of “ Old Soul Song (for the New World Order)” to get a taste of what the group has been up to as of late.

Huge 2023 concert tours

While Bright Eyes is wrapping up its 2022 run, many major stars are taking their hits to venues all over North America next year.

Here are just five of our favorite tours that you absolutely should add to your 2023 plans.

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Bright Eyes reschedule UK and Ireland tour dates to 2022

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The band were due to hit the road this August with shows in London, Manchester, Dublin, Birmingham and Glasgow.

But due to the COVID pandemic they have now been forced to move the dates to August 2022 with their opening show at London Eventim Apollo kicking off on August 30. They will wrap up their tour at Glasgow Barrowland on September 6.

See the full list of dates below.

AUGUST 2022 30 – London Eventim Apollo 31 – Manchester O2 Apollo

SEPTEMBER 2022 1 – Dublin Vicar Street 5 – Birmingham O2 Institute 6 – Glasgow Barrowland

Despite the postponed dates in the UK, Bright Eyes are still set to go ahead with their forthcoming US dates later this month .

The band will be performing tracks from their recent album ‘Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was’ , for an 11-date East Coast tour.

Reviewing the album , NME wrote: “Naysayers may have scoffed at the ’21st Century Bob Dylan’ tag when it was first applied to Oberst, but his maturity and depth can’t be denied here.”

Bright Eyes will play:

JULY 2021 27 – Lewiston, NY – Artpark Amphitheatre 28 – New Haven, CT – Westville Music Bowl (with Japanese Breakfast and Lucy Dacus) 29 – Bethlehem, PA – Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks 30 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium 31 – New York, NY – Forest Hills Tennis Stadium (with Waxahatchee and Japanese Breakfast)

AUGUST 2021 03 – Charlottesville, VA – Ting Pavilion 04 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater 05 – Asheville, NC – Rabbit Rabbit 06 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern 07 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern 08 – Birmingham, AL – Sloss Furnaces

Last autumn, Bright Eyes shared a new song featuring Phoebe Bridgers called ‘Miracle Of Life’. Described as “a protest song”, the track discusses abortion rights in America and all proceeds from the track went to Planned Parenthood.

“This song should not exist in 2020 America,” Conor Oberst said of the song, which also features previous Bright Eyes collaborators including Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and Queens Of The Stone Age drummer Jon Theodore.

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  7. Bright Eyes brings a chaotic triumph to Nashville's Ryman Auditorium

    April 8, 2022. Last Friday, a long-awaited return was in order at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium; Bright Eyes, the seminal indie-folk project led by Conor Oberst and rounded out by contributors Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, was finally due to return to the Music City after their 2020 reunion was derailed by COVID-19.

  8. Review: Bright Eyes' songs, featuring frontman Conor Oberst, 'read like

    Bright Eyes with frontman Conor Oberst delivered an impassioned concert in Columbus Sunday night. Conor Oberst singing, "You're approaching even as you disappear.". The line wasn't so spectacular, given the dozens that came before. But it summed things up. The primary songwriter in the band, the bookish Oberst not only has a penchant ...

  9. Bright Eyes Kicks Off 2022 Tour with Three Live Debuts

    Bright Eyes played their first show of 2022 on the evening of March 23. The tour kicked off at The Palace in St. Paul, Minnesota and featured a career-traversing 22-song setlist. A good chunk of the set (6 songs) came from 2020's Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was and three of those six were live debuts. A handful of the songs hadn't ...

  10. Bright Eyes announce 2022 US tour

    Bright Eyes spring 2022 US tour dates: MARCH 2022. 23 - St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre. 24 - Milwaukee, WI - The Riverside Theater. 25 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee. 26 - Chicago, IL ...

  11. Bright Eyes Concert Setlist at The Sylvee, Madison on March 25, 2022

    Get the Bright Eyes Setlist of the concert at The Sylvee, Madison, WI, USA on March 25, 2022 from the Bright Eyes 2022 World Tour and other Bright Eyes Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

  12. Review

    Bright Eyes brought the "highs and lows" to Mission Ballroom. The Mile High City welcomed indie band Bright Eyes last Thursday night, June 30, for their first tour since the pandemic. This ...

  13. Bright Eyes Announce 2022 U.S. Tour

    December 7, 2021. Bright Eyes, photo by Shawn Brackbill. Bright Eyes have announced a 2022 tour across the United States. One dollar of every ticket from these shows will go to the Downtown Women ...

  14. Bright Eyes Announce 2022 US Tour Dates

    Bright Eyes are finishing what they started — their comeback tour, that is. After performing their first live sets in nearly a decade last year, the Conor Oberst-led trio are continuing the reunion fun with another leg of US tour dates in 2022.first live sets in nearly a decade last year, the Conor Oberst-led trio are continuing the reunion fun with

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    Last updated on March 31st, 2022 at 01:17 pm. Bright Eyes kicked off their Spring tour - the first after a nine-year hiatus - at St. Paul's Palace Theatre Wednesday evening. It's been a long time coming. After an especially rough couple years, our favorite sad songwriter was welcomed back with open arms.

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    Bright Eyes appears Thursday, June 16, at the Knitting Factory, at 919 W. Sprague Ave. Hurray for the Riff Raff will open. Tickets are $39.50. The show time is 8 p.m. For more information, call ...

  17. Bright Eyes Announce 2022 Tour Dates

    Bright Eyes Announce 2022 Tour Dates. The 13-date run kicks off March 23. Written by Josh Chesler | December 7, 2021 - 12:00 pm. After hitting the road (for the first time in over a decade) in ...

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    In addition to that, Bright Eyes is embarking on an extensive tour throughout the U.S., UK, and Europe. Alex G is scheduled to open for the band, and they'll kick off on March 23 in St. Paul ...

  19. Bright Eyes Announce 2022 Tour Dates

    BRIGHT EYES FULL TOUR DATES: DATE: CITY: VENUE: Wed Mar 23 St. Paul, MN Palace Theatre. Thu Mar 24 Milwaukee, WI The Riverside Theater. Fri Mar 25 Madison, WI The Sylvee. Sat Mar 26 Chicago, IL ...

  20. Bright Eyes Announce Tour Dates

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  22. Bright Eyes tour 2022: Where to buy tickets, schedule, dates

    Huge 2023 concert tours. While Bright Eyes is wrapping up its 2022 run, many major stars are taking their hits to venues all over North America next year. Here are just five of our favorite tours ...

  23. Bright Eyes reschedule UK and Ireland tour dates to 2022

    See the full list of dates below. AUGUST 2022. 30 - London Eventim Apollo. 31 - Manchester O2 Apollo. SEPTEMBER 2022. 1 - Dublin Vicar Street. 5 - Birmingham O2 Institute. 6 - Glasgow ...