Pixx Adds Autumn UK Live Dates
- Written by Marky Edison
Pixx, the artistic pseudonym of Hannah Rodgers, has added more UK tour dates to her autumn calendar, including her first headline shows in Brighton, Nottingham, Manchester and Bristol. Accompanied by band members Luke Rodgers (guitar), Amy Gillespie (keyboards, bass) and Jamie Staples (drums), Rodgers will also open for her friends HMLTD in October.
Pixx’s debut album, The Age Of Anxiety, was released in June to wide acclaim. A collection of twelve songs featuring ‘I Bow Down’, ‘Grip’, ‘Baboo’ and latest single ‘Waterslides’, The Age Of Anxiety addresses a generation increasingly isolated by an unprecedented new world order, from the pressures of social media to an ever-changing political turbulence. The Age Of Anxiety borrows its title from W.H. Auden’s final poem, charting one man’s quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialised world. Published in 1947, Auden’s six-part rumination on human isolation in the modern age parallels the overarching themes of Pixx’s work some 70 years later.
Originally from Chipstead, Surrey, and a graduate of the BRIT School, 22-year-old Rodgers experienced a year-long period of insomnia caused by recurring nightmares at age nine – her first awareness of anxiety. It left a lasting impression, inspiring a fascination with different states of consciousness, and is one of many somnolent events she draws upon for The Age Of Anxiety.
Pixx Tour Dates
24 August – LONDON, Ultralounge on LG
26 August – TOTNES, Sea Change Festival
27 August – BRISTOL, Hardly a Party Festival
2 September – SALISBURY, End of the Road Festival
3 September – STRADBELLY, Electric Picnic Festival
15 September – BIRMINGHAM, Beyond The Tracks Festival
5 October – LIVERPOOL, The Magnet (w/ HMLTD)
11 October – LEEDS, Brudenell Social Club (w/ HMLTD)
12 October – NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, Think Tank (w/ HMLTD)
13 October – GLASGOW, Broadcast (w/ HMLTD)
24 October – LONDON, Electric Ballroom (w/ HMLTD)
30 October - BRIGHTON, Green Door Store
31 October – NOTTINGHAM, Bodega
1 November – MANCHESTER, Soup Kitchen
2 November – BRISTOL, The Crofters Rights
3 November – LEEDS, Beacons Metro 2017
