Massachusetts grunge royalty Dinosaur Jr. has announced four new dates in London and seven dates in Brooklyn to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their beloved 5th album Where You Been. The band plan to play the slacker rock classic in its entirety at the concerts.
The band has unveiled their plans for four consecutive dates at The Garage in London from Sunday the 12th November to Wednesday the 15th November and a residency at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn in early December.
Tickets for the London dates go on general sale Friday 26th May at 10 am BST. See here for tickets and more information.
Celebrating 30 years of “Where You Been” in London 11/12-11/15 and NYC 12/1-12/3 & 12/5-12/8
Tickets for both shows go on sale this week. Artist presale for NYC is on sale tomorrow.
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The noisy, raw, yet melodic Where You Been arrived on the (freak) scene in February 1993. After J Mascis largely recorded Green Mind himself, Where You Been was the beginning of Dinosaur Jr.’s new lineup with Murph returning on drums, the newly appointed Mike Johnson on bass, and J Mascis leading the trio. “It’s the first time we’ve felt like a band for maybe six years, or something,” Mascis mumbled to MTV’s 120 Minutes in 1993, “[Johnson] adds a lot, just having someone that I can get along with musically and personally. It just makes the record better having all the people there contributing something, rather than the last one.” Watch the interview below:
Where You Been became the band’s most successful record up to that point reaching number 50 on The Billboard 200 and number 10 on the UK charts. Receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews, the album was listed on several music publications’ best album of the year lists and on Select Magazine’s best of the 90s tier list.
Watch the video for the single “Start Choppin'” below:
The band reissued a remastered and expanded edition of the influential album in 2019 including B-sides and peel session recordings on blue vinyl.
J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph have been the new Dinosaur Jr. lineup since the band’s reunion in 2005. The unit’s most recent record, Swept Into Space, was released in 2021 through Jagjaguwar. Produced by Mascis and the laidback psychedelic singer-songwriter Kurt Vile, the band’s 12th studio LP won over critics and fans, proving the band is still masters of alt-rock.
The three-piece have a packed schedule ahead of them with plenty of US festival and tour dates from June until September planned.
See below for Dinosaur Jr.’s UK shows:
12/11/23 – The Garage – London
13/11 – The Garage – London
14/11 – The Garage – London
15/11 – The Garage – London
