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On tour
Yes
Followers
7,051
Category
Homeschool Rock
Concerts
Nov
06
The Iron Horse
Northampton
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Nov
07
Vinegar Hill Barn
Arundel
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Nov
08
StageOne at FTC
Fairfield
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Nov
10
World Cafe Live
Philadelphia
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Nov
12
The Ark
Ann Arbor
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Nov
14
Schubas Tavern
Chicago
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Nov
14
Schubas Tavern
Chicago
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Nov
15
The Bur Oak
Madison
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Nov
16
Fitzgerald
Minneapolis
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Nov
18
Off Broadway
St. Louis
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Nov
19
The Whirling Tiger
Louisville
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Nov
20
Woodward Theatre
Cincinnati
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Nov
22
The Miracle Theatre
Washington
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Mar
10
Showbox SoDo
Seattle
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Mar
12
Roseland Theater
Portland
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Mar
14
Fox Theater
Oakland
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Mar
18
The Wiltern
Los Angeles
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Mar
21
The Union Event Center
Salt Lake City
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Mar
22
Ogden Theatre
Denver
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Mar
24
Palace Theatre
Saint Paul
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Mar
25
Riviera Theatre
Chicago
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Mar
27
HISTORY
Toronto
Tickets
Mar
28
MTELUS
Montreal
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Mar
29
Roadrunner
Boston
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Apr
02
Brooklyn Paramount
Brooklyn
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Apr
04
The Anthem
Washington
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Apr
05
The Orange Peel
Asheville
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Apr
06
Variety Playhouse
Atlanta
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About Katy Kirby
Let's face it: There's no such thing as “real life”. There is only experience and the negotiations we undertake in order to share it with other people. On her second album Blue Raspberry, the New York-based songwriter Katy Kirby dives headlong into the artifice of intimacy: the glitter smeared across eyelid creases, the smiles switched on with an electric buzz, the synthetic rose scent all over someone who's made herself smell nice just for you. An exegesis of Kirby's first queer relationship, Blue Raspberry traces the crescendo and collapse of new love, savoring each gleaming shard of rock candy and broken glass along the way.
Originally from Spicewood, Texas, Kirby was living in Nashville when she started writing Blue Raspberry's title track, the first of the album's songs to take shape. "'Blue Raspberry' is the oldest song on the record. I began to write it a month or so before I realized, I think I’m queer," she says. "There’s a tradition of yearning in country love songs. I like the male yearning songs better, usually. I started writing 'Blue Raspberry,' and I was thinking about, if I was in love with a woman, what would I love about her? Especially if she was someone that I couldn’t touch, but that I was pining for. What would I be caught on? And I thought that I would probably be particularly charmed by the choices she made on how to look after she woke up in the morning. I thought about tackiness, and the ways that’s a dirty word. That’s where the title comes from -- loving someone for those choices, for the artificiality."
Blue Raspberry follows Kirby’s acclaimed debut album Cool Dry Place, which was also recorded in Nashville and released in February of 2021. While the songs on that record unfold amidst Kirby finding her voice, Blue Raspberry is a polished and confident sophomore effort that deepens the questions that bubbled through Cool Dry Place about how people can reach each other despite all the hazard zones where human connection caves in.
After realizing that her romantic interest in women went beyond the confines of a songwriting exercise, Kirby kept writing songs that sought to untangle that false binary between the real and the fake, to celebrate the spectacles people put on for each other when they're falling in and out of love. She committed herself completely to the work of drawing out these songs, often stealing away to her van to write immediately after playing an opening set while on a 2021 tour with Waxahatchee. For the first time since she started writing songs, Kirby stopped tamping down on her impulse to craft ornate, generously embellished music. "I felt less embarrassed about just wanting to write really gorgeous songs," she says. She started weaving more intricate chord progressions and melodies into her work, and in turn she felt emboldened to hold onto the more baroque flourishes of her lyrics without whittling them down into plainer lines.
Many of the songs that make up Blue Raspberry stemmed from a single page of lyrical fragments, words and phrases that kept their hold on Kirby even as she slipped them into multiple settings. Images repeat on different songs throughout the album: cubic zirconia gleaming at a woman's throat, the lab-grown substitute indistinguishable from earth-crushed diamonds; salt crystallizing as seawater dries on reddened skin; teeth that shine in a grin and then bite till they bruise. These refrains and reprises lend a tight narrative cohesion to the record, elevating its sharp queries into all the unlikely shapes love takes as it surges through you.
To underscore Blue Raspberry's lyrical themes, Kirby worked with her band to develop a newly lush sonic palette replete with orchestral gestures arranged by her friend Rowen Merrill. "I felt like I was intending to write love songs for the first time. Once I realized they were queer love songs and celebrating artificiality, I wanted them to sound like they were bidding for a spot in the wedding reception canon," she says. "It was more fun to just go for it than to try to restrain ourselves. Especially if we were just accepting the fact that we were trying to make objectively beautiful music, whatever that means."
Together with producers Alberto Sewald and Logan Chung, Kirby looked to albums like Andy Shauf's The Party and Lomelda's Hannah as models for Blue Raspberry's abundant but spacious gorgeousness. Piano and strings echo together on the gentle ballad "Salt Crystal," while scrapes of cello punctuate each heartbroken line of "Alexandria," a song about the dissolution of Kirby's first queer relationship and recorded live in one take. Cymbals and organs stagger across the offbeat "Drop Dead," one of the album's most playful songs that highlights the sly humor in Kirby's lyrics: "There’s no virgin territory for a body like hers." On the album's title track, Kirby sings trailed by a pitch-lowered echo of her own voice, her guitar chords hanging in the air like question marks. Her imagery seizes upon the bright, garish colors of mass-produced material, homing in on its sensory intensity while casting aside any judgment about its source. "Her eyes burn white as Styrofoam right into me," she sings, rendering a cheap, disposable substance into shocking magic.
"Why wouldn't that be enough?" Kirby sings throughout the album, a question that's never answered and never drops. Every attempt at love strains toward the idea of the real thing, that totalizing force that makes everything around it perfect forever. But if no one ever gets there, why wouldn't the straining itself suffice? Blue Raspberry shivers with the idea that the key to the treasure is itself the treasure -- even if it's plastic, even if its gold coating flakes off at your touch, even if despite all your searching you never find the lock.
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Katy Kirby Tour Cities
Montréal, QC
Salt Lake City, UT
Denver, CO
Saint Paul, MN
Toronto, ON
Chicago, IL
Atlanta, GA
Asheville, NC
Portland, OR
Brooklyn, NY
Boston, MA
Los Angeles, CA
Seattle, WA
Oakland, CA
Madison, WI
Louisville, KY
Northampton, MA
Philadelphia, PA
Cincinnati, OH
St. Louis, MO
Ann Arbor, MI
Fairfield, CT
Minneapolis, MN
Frequently Asked Questions About Katy Kirby
Concerts & Tour Date Information
Is Katy Kirby on tour?
Yes, Katy Kirby is currently on tour. If you’re interested in attending an upcoming
Katy Kirby concert, make sure to grab your tickets in advance. The Katy Kirby tour
is scheduled for 28 dates across 23 cities. Get
information on all upcoming tour dates and tickets for 2024-2025 with Hypebot.
How many upcoming tour dates is Katy Kirby scheduled to play?
Katy Kirby is scheduled to play 28 shows between 2024-2025. Buy
concert tickets to a nearby show through Hypebot.
When does the Katy Kirby tour start?
Katy Kirby’s tour starts Nov 06, 2024 and ends on Apr 06, 2025.
They will play 23 cities; their most recent concert was held in
Northampton at The Iron Horse and their next upcoming concert
will be in Salt Lake City at The Union Event Center.
What venues is Katy Kirby performing at?
As part of the Katy Kirby tour, Katy Kirby is scheduled to play across the following
venues and cities:
2024 Tour Dates:
Nov 06 - Northampton,
MA @ The Iron Horse
Nov 07 - Arundel,
ME @ Vinegar Hill Barn
Nov 08 - Fairfield,
CT @ StageOne at FTC
Nov 10 - Philadelphia,
PA @ World Cafe Live
Nov 12 - Ann Arbor,
MI @ The Ark
Nov 14 - Chicago,
IL @ Schubas Tavern
Nov 14 - Chicago,
IL @ Schubas Tavern
Nov 15 - Madison,
WI @ The Bur Oak
Nov 16 - Minneapolis,
MN @ Fitzgerald
Nov 18 - St. Louis,
MO @ Off Broadway
Nov 19 - Louisville,
KY @ The Whirling Tiger
Nov 20 - Cincinnati,
OH @ Woodward Theatre
Nov 22 - Washington,
DC @ The Miracle Theatre
2025 Tour Dates:
Mar 10 - Seattle,
WA @ Showbox SoDo
Mar 12 - Portland,
OR @ Roseland Theater
Mar 14 - Oakland,
CA @ Fox Theater
Mar 18 - Los Angeles,
CA @ The Wiltern
Mar 21 - Salt Lake City,
UT @ The Union Event Center
Mar 22 - Denver,
CO @ Ogden Theatre
Mar 24 - Saint Paul,
MN @ Palace Theatre
Mar 25 - Chicago,
IL @ Riviera Theatre
Mar 27 - Toronto,
ON @ HISTORY
Mar 28 - Montreal,
QC @ MTELUS
Mar 29 - Boston,
MA @ Roadrunner
Apr 02 - Brooklyn,
NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
Apr 04 - Washington,
DC @ The Anthem
Apr 05 - Asheville,
NC @ The Orange Peel
Apr 06 - Atlanta,
GA @ Variety Playhouse