Black Country, New Road have premiered a live film of entirely new material, taken from their three back-to-back shows at Bush Hall in December 2022. Live at Bush Hall is the first official taste of new music from the band since the departure of frontperson Isaac Wood in 2022, just days before the release of their sophomore album Ants from Up There.
The film premiered on YouTube today ahead of a film screening at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London at 8 p.m. tonight.
Remaining BC,NR members Lewis Evans, May Kershaw, Georgia Ellery, Luke Mark, Tyler Hyde and Charlie Wayne decided to write an entirely new set of material to perform ahead of their ongoing 2023 tour — Live at Bush Hall captures that new set. It was directed by Greg Barnes and mixed by John Parish.
"We didn't want to do a studio album," says Kershaw, who now handles vocal duties alongside Evans and Hyde. "We wrote the new tracks specifically to perform live, so we thought it might be a nice idea to put out a performance."
"We had concerns from live sessions we've seen or done in the past," said guitarist Luke Mark. "They are very obviously clumped together visually from multiple performances. That can take you out of the performance and make it seem artificial and like it's not actually live. So we came up with the idea to make the three nights look visually distinct from one another. To scratch the idea of trying to disguise anything. We wanted it to be very honest and let people know that we had three goes at it. This isn't just us playing the whole thing non-stop."
Each night features a different visual theme with corresponding stage sets, inspired by school plays, pastoral scenes, and a haunted pizza parlour called I Ain't Alfredo No Ghosts.
The film looks and sounds great, and you can check it out below.
The film premiered on YouTube today ahead of a film screening at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London at 8 p.m. tonight.
Remaining BC,NR members Lewis Evans, May Kershaw, Georgia Ellery, Luke Mark, Tyler Hyde and Charlie Wayne decided to write an entirely new set of material to perform ahead of their ongoing 2023 tour — Live at Bush Hall captures that new set. It was directed by Greg Barnes and mixed by John Parish.
"We didn't want to do a studio album," says Kershaw, who now handles vocal duties alongside Evans and Hyde. "We wrote the new tracks specifically to perform live, so we thought it might be a nice idea to put out a performance."
"We had concerns from live sessions we've seen or done in the past," said guitarist Luke Mark. "They are very obviously clumped together visually from multiple performances. That can take you out of the performance and make it seem artificial and like it's not actually live. So we came up with the idea to make the three nights look visually distinct from one another. To scratch the idea of trying to disguise anything. We wanted it to be very honest and let people know that we had three goes at it. This isn't just us playing the whole thing non-stop."
Each night features a different visual theme with corresponding stage sets, inspired by school plays, pastoral scenes, and a haunted pizza parlour called I Ain't Alfredo No Ghosts.
The film looks and sounds great, and you can check it out below.
