Jehnny Beth, frontwoman of London rockers, Savages has announced she will be going it alone, at least for a one-time gig, as well as a collaboration with Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, according to NME.
The band announced last year that they would be taking a break to pursue new ventures, and Jehnny Beth offered a tease about today’s announcement following the wrapping of their Tour to support their acclaimed sophomore album, ‘Adore Life.’ Beth revealed at the time, ‘I have collaboration I have lined up, really cool stuff, which I can’t talk about now but some are going to be revealed in January,” she said. “So I think it’s going to be for me, collaborating with new people. I’ve kept writing a lot so I’ve got a lot of songs right now that I don’t know what I’m going to do with yet. They’re for something else, not Savages. Pursuing the collaborations where people have reached out and want to work with me, that’s what’s going to happen. I’m very excited.’
Well, now photos posted on the Instagram accounts of Beth, and Johnny Hostile, her partner and other half of duo lo-fi indie rockers, ‘John and Jehn’, confirm that the collaboration will be with Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream. The photos include the Jehn and Bobby together, with the caption, ‘2 singers hard at work in the studio’, as well as a photo of a reclining Beth, along with a tribute to ‘The lady who never stops writing. Inspirational woman. Lucky me #jehnnybeth.’
Beth took to Instagram to announce she will be performing a one night solo piano show, writing, ‘Dear people of the Netherlands, I am playing the GRAUZONE festival in the city of the North Sea coast of the western Netherlands, The Hague – the 11th Feb 2017. Grab your tickets to see an intimate piano solo performance of exclusively new songs.’
However, Beth isn’t the only one exploring pastures new, with Savages bassist Ayse Hassan’s new side project KiteBase releasing their new album, ‘Latent Whispers’, today. The band will soon be packing their bags to head out on a European Tour, including one show at London’s Kamio; the full schedule is shown below:
15/2 – Festival Hors Pistes @ Le Brise Glace – Annecy
16/2 – Art Gallery Perrin (Generiq Festival) – Montbeliard
17/2 – Consortium (Generiq Festival) – Dijon
18/2 – La Rodia Club (Generiq Festival) – Besancon
19/2 – Le Sechoir Art Gallery – Mulhouse
21/2 – Supersonic – Paris
22/2 – AB Club – Brussels
23/2 – Prinzenbar – Hamburg
24/2 – Music & Frieden (Blue Room) – Germany
25/2 – Ideal Bar – Copenhagen
27/2 – Eldorado – Zurich
28/2 – Freakout – Bologna
1/3 – Magnolia – Milan (Segrate)
3/3 – Sidecar – Barcelona
4/3 – 17 Fest @ Las Armas – Zaragoza
5/3 – Siroco – Madrid
7/3 – Kamio – London
