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Manchester Orchestra at Union Chapel by James du Plessis
Manchester Orchestra at Union Chapel by James du Plessis
Manchester Orchestra have announced a live album, Union Chapel, London, England, due out March 20 via Loma Vista. It was recorded across three nights in the fall of 2023, and it found the band’s core duo of Andy Hull and Robert McDowell doing stripped-back renditions of songs from throughout Manchester Orchestra’s catalog, 21 of which are on this LP. They recently released “The Silence” and now they’ve shared “The Grocery” (both originally from 2017’s A Black Mile To The Surface), both of which are gorgeous renditions that come with gorgeous, black-and-white videos filmed in and around the historic London venue.
Andy says:
The city of London has been a close companion to Manchester Orchestra from the very beginning of the band. We spilled out of a tiny van nearly 20 years ago at legendary dives like The Barfly and The Water Rats and with each year, and each show since, the town has become a kind of canon in our lives. A way to compare past with present and past with further past. It was surreal to perform those same songs and so many others across our career over the course of three nights at the historic Union Chapel. It was equally as intense as it was healing and I gratefully believe these recordings faithfully represent the air of that balancing act in the chapel that night.
Check out both songs/videos and the tracklist below. Andy also has upcoming solo tour dates and those are listed below as well.
Tracklist
1. Intro (Union Chapel, London, England)
2. I Know How To Speak (Union Chapel, London, England)
3. The Grocery (Union Chapel, London, England)
4. The Maze (Union Chapel, London, England)
5. The Gold (Union Chapel, London, England)
6. Deer (Union Chapel, London, England)
7. Angel of Death (Union Chapel, London, England)
8. I Can Barely Breathe (Union Chapel, London, England)
9. Capital Karma (Union Chapel, London, England)
10. The Way (Union Chapel, London, England)
11. The River (Union Chapel, London, England)
12. Telepath (Union Chapel, London, England)
13. Simple Math (Union Chapel, London, England)
14. I Can Feel A Hot One (Union Chapel, London, England)
15. Cope (Union Chapel, London, England)
16. Colly Strings (Union Chapel, London, England)
17. My Backwards Walk (Union Chapel, London, England)
18. Interlude (Union Chapel, London, England)
19. Rear View (Union Chapel, London, England)
20. Bed Head (Union Chapel, London, England)
21. The Silence (Union Chapel, London, England)
Andy Hull — 2026 Tour Dates
March 20 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
March 21 – Charleston, SC – Music Farm
March 22 – Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom
March 24 – Wilmington, DE – The Queen
March 26 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
March 27 – Boston, MA – City Winery
March 28 – Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
March 29 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom
March 31 – Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
April 1 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
April 2 – Ferndale, MI – The Loving Touch
April 3 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
April 4 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
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