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Foy Vance - Music
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FOY VANCE RELEASES NEW TRACK
“IF CHRISTOPHER CALLS”
NEW ALBUM SIGNS OF LIFE TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 ON ED SHEERAN’S GINGERBREAD MAN RECORDS/ELEKTRA RECORDS
PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE
https://lnk.to/Signs-of-Life
REMAINING TICKETS FOR LARGELY SOLD-OUT AN EVENING WITH FOY VANCE TOUR AVAILABLE HERE
Vance will celebrate Signs Of Life’s arrival with An Evening With Foy Vance, an intimate tour of the UK and US, including stops in Los Angeles, New York, and Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium. Remaining tickets for the largely sold-out run of shows are available now.
Written for his wife about her late father, “If Christopher Calls” is at once beautiful yet quietly devastating. Over a gorgeous, swelling melody Vance delivers a restrained yet palpably emotional vocal. “Christopher was Marie, my wife’s father, who passed away suddenly a few years back,” Vance explains. “When it happened, Marie was in London and I was in Scotland. Her mum had phoned her to say Christopher had dropped in the kitchen but they weren’t sure if he was dead. Marie wasn’t there, she was a few miles away and just talking to her mum on the phone, trying to tell her what to do.”
“Marie then called me and when she explained the situation it was clear to me that he was already dead. But she was still holding out hope that he would be alive when she got there, and I let her think that, rather than tell her what I was certain to be true. And it was. He died immediately. Her hope of hearing his voice again was heartbreaking,” Vance recalls. “She then came to Nashville with me while I was recording an album, and every day we would wake in the morning then go and sit out the back with a coffee, and that is where I would leave her - and that is where I would find her when I got home.”
“If Christopher Calls” follows Signs of Life’s previously released tracks “Time Stand Still”, “Signs Of Life”, and “Sapling”. Upon its release, The New York Times featured “Sapling” in The Playlist and Clash Music applauded the song as “An instant fan favorite… a song about renewal and survival.” The album’s early tracks have received additional praise from Entertainment Tonight, Americana UK, and more.
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“He harks back to Van Morrison’s better days, grainy and impassioned.” The New York Times
“…simply beautiful, all about (Vance’s) wonderfully characterful voice
and the gorgeous melody it enfolds.” Americana UK
Created out of the grimness of 2020, Signs of Life is an album of dawn after darkness, hope after despair, engagement after isolation, uplift after lockdown. The album’s bold artwork reflects Vance's desire to embrace all sides of everything, all humanity's textures. Shot on a 160-year-old camera, the back image is of Vance as a bare-chested, bare-knuckle boxer. On the front, he's in a dress, blonde wig and theatrical make-up. “They’re just mad, striking images, and I loved the fact that it was male and female. You know, life’s extreme, life’s volatile, life explodes into reality sometimes, and stops just as quick. So to be struck by images on the cover made sense.”
Commenting on the album’s timely subject matter, Vance shared, “Signs of Life is about re-emergence – me in my own soft revolution, the world re-emerging in what we’re about to see as we hopefully go back to some semblance of normality. But just life in general – flowers growing through the cracks in Chernobyl. Life finds a way, doesn’t it?”
Hailing from Bangor in Northern Ireland, Vance independently released his debut album Hope in 2007, quickly garnering acclaim from fans and fellow musicians alike. His second full-length album, Joy of Nothing, released in 2013 on Glassnote Records, won the inaugural Northern Ireland Music Prize and saw Vance tour the globe with Ed Sheeran, Bonnie Raitt, Marcus Foster, Snow Patrol and Sir Elton John, as well as his own solo headline tours.
In 2015 Vance was became
the second signing to Gingerbread Man Records, Ed Sheeran’s label division
within Atlantic Records.
His debut recording for the label, The Wild
Swan - Executive Produced by Sir Elton John - contained the BBC Radio
2 playlisted singles “Coco”, “Upbeat Feelgood”, and “Noam Chomsky Is A Soft
Revolution”, and saw Vance perform on NBC’s Today and CBS’s The Late Late Show
with James Corden.
As a songwriter, Vance’s collaborations include co-writing four cuts including “Galway Girl” on Ed Sheeran’s 2017 album Divide. He has also worked with Alicia Keys, Rag N Bone Man, Keith Urban, Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert, Plan B and Rudimental among many others, effortlessly switching between genres.
Last year, Vance launched the podcast series The Vinyl Supper in which he talks music, food and life stories with special guests and friends from the world of music, poetry and film. Recorded remotely during the global pandemic, series one featured Anderson East, Atticus, Benny Blanco, Blake Mills, Bruce Cockburn, Chrissy Metz, Courteney Cox, Devin Dawson, Josh Groban, Keith Urban and Passenger.
Foy Vance has headlined globally to sell-out crowds and splits his time between London and the Scottish Highlands with his family.
An Evening With Foy Vance Tour 2021
September 06, 2021 - Glasgow, UK - King Tuts - SOLD OUT
September 07, 2021 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
September 09, 2021 - London, UK - Oslo - SOLD OUT
September 10, 2021 - London, UK - St. Pancras Church - SOLD OUT
September 12, 2021 - Belfast, UK - Empire - SOLD OUT
September 13, 2021 - Dublin, IE - Whelans
November 10, 2021 - Los Angeles, CA - Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever - SOLD OUT
November 12, 2021 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium * - SOLD OUT
November 13, 2021 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium *
November 16, 2021 - New York, NY - Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 - SOLD OUT
* supporting Anderson East
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