The The announces first concerts in 4 years as part of Ensouled World Tour 2024
Matt Johnson is taking The The back out on the road next year for the first time since the band’s 2018 comeback tour, today announcing four concerts in the U.K.
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The The’s Matt Johnson finally embraces the “banned” music video for “This Is the Day”
The The’s Matt Johnson for years so disliked the video for the band’s iconic 1983 single “This Is the Day” that he insisted it be “withdrawn and banned from circulation.”
Remembering Sire Records’ Seymour Stein, whose musical taste shaped a generation
The death over the weekend of legendary record man Seymour Stein has unleashed a torrent of heartfelt appreciations from the musicians he championed.
The The to release new 7-inch single “$1 One Vote” later this month
The The will release its third new 7-inch single in six years this month, a song called “$1 One Vote” that Matt Johnson says has been “percolating” for years.
The The releases news DJ Food remix of “NakedSelf” track “Global Eyes”
The The this week released a new remix of the live version of “Global Eyes” recorded at the Royal Albert Hall for The Comeback Special album and film.
The The announces ‘Comeback Special’ live album and film — watch ‘Sweet Bird of Truth’
This fall, The The will release The Comeback Special: Live at the Royal Albert Hall, a multiformat live album and Tim Pope-directed concert film documenting Matt Johnson’s reactivation of the band for a 2018 reunion tour, its first in 16 years. Check out the performance of “Sweet Bird of Truth” from the film.
Listen to The The’s new single ‘I Want 2 B U’ — it’s reminiscent of ‘This Is the Day’
Matt Johnson last weekend released a new 7-inch by The The for the first of three Record Store Day “drops,” a single called “I Want 2 B U” that calls to mind “This Is the Day” because Johnson wrote and recorded it with the “quirky Omnichord instrument” he used on that 1983 classic. Hear it right here.
