PVRIS have postponed their upcoming UK and European tour shifting its starting point from later in April till next year in January. The nine-month delay is due to the band focusing on their next album. Frontwoman Lynn Gunn confirmed that the album is officially “in progress” in a statement shared today (April 5th) on their social media pages. The statement explains that the tour was “meant to be accompanied by a brand new PVRIS album”, but up to this point, she and her bandmates had been held back by “the unlimited amount of obstacles and setbacks brought on from the pandemic”.
The American multi-instrumentalist cited the label’s “lack of space, lack of time, lack of budget and conflict of priorities/interest regarding the PVRIS brand and community”, and said that as a result, it became “nearly impossible to have this album written, recorded, conceptualized, up to standard and ready for your consumption by the time of this tour”. She then went on to say PVRIS “is now free to move forward into this next chapter”, Gunn continued: “I never want to compromise the creative quality or integrity of our music and visuals. This is something that unfortunately had to be done too many times on this past album cycle (we gave it our best despite the circumstances). I refuse to do that moving forward. PVRIS deserves better and you deserve better, as you are the sole reason we get to do what we do.” You can view the full post and the band’s statement below.
our UK/EU tour has been moved to 2023. pic.twitter.com/yvV8Xi5U6w
— PVRIS (@ThisIsPVRIS) April 4, 2022
The tour is now slated to begin on January 22nd, starting in Manchester then moving on to Glasgow, Birmingham and London. The European portion of the tour will start in Antwerp on January 29th, with the band scheduled to perform in Tilburg, Paris, Cologne, Hamberg, Vienna, Munich, Milan and Berlin. You can find tickets for the Glasgow, Birmingham and London shows as well as all the rest from PVRIS’ website here.
After the band released their third album, Use Me, in August of 2020 PVRIS confirmed that they would be performing new music at shows. The first of this new material came with the single “My Way” that dropped in October, and was soon followed up the next month by a collaboration with Japanese guitarist and record producer Miyavi entitled “Snakes”.
PVRIS UK and European New Tour Dates:
22/01/23 Manchester Academy – Manchester
23/01 O2 Academy – Glasgow
25/01 O2 Institute – Birmingham
26/01 O2 Academy Brixton – London
29/01 Kavka Zappa – Antwerp
31/01 013 – Tilbrug
01/02 Alhambra – Paris
02/02 Gloria Theater – Cologne
04/02 Grunspan – Hamburg
06/02/2022- Flex- Vienna
07/02 Technikum – Munich
08/02 Magazzini Generali – Milan
10/02 Gretchen – Berlin
