[DID NOT ATTEND: September 4, 2025] Swans / Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch
Last year I saw Swans for the first time. It was intense and wonderful.
This year, the band announced that they would tour once more and this would be the last time in this format:
This is to let you know that there will be zero additional shows/tours added to the 2 Swans tours listed here. This is the final tour, the last chance to experience this expansive sound and ensemble. The players: Kristof Hahn, Norman Westberg, Dana Schechter, Phil Puleo, Larry Mullins, Christopher Pravdica, Michael Gira. This marks about 15 years of this phase of Swans. It’s been wonderful to be inside such an overwhelming, total sonic experience, but it’s time to end it. Following these 2 tours Swans will continue in a much different, stripped down version. I’m not exactly sure what form the music will take, but I’m excited to find out.
I put this show on my maybe pile because I did want to go but if something better came along, I’d be okay with missing it, since I had just seen it the year before.
And then Poppy announced a show near us and I got tickets for my daughter and I.
Swans wound up playing an entirely different set then when I saw them, but since most Swans music is of the same ilk, I pretty much know what the show was like (glorious, no doubt). (more…)
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