The Lumineers are coming to SA

The two concerts form part of the band’s Brightside World Tour which begins at Coastal Credit Union Music Park in North Carolina, US, on 24 May. The tour is named after The Lumineers’ fourth studio album Brightside, which includes songs like ‘A.M. RADIO’, ‘BIG SHOT’, ‘WHERE WE ARE’ and ‘BRIGHTSIDE’.

Commenting on the making of the album, band member Wesley Schultz said: “The way we did Vignettes was so different from how I was making Lumineers records with Jer [Jeremiah Fraites]. I was showing up at Simone and David’s studio not really knowing what we’d be doing that day, just letting things happen. There was no planning or choreography—we were creating in real time. And that experience seeped into the making of Brightside.”

Fraites concurred: “As weird as it sounds, I feel like 2020 was the most fertile creative period of my whole life, for so many reasons. I finished the solo instrumental album, and when Wesley and I started working on songs together, I felt alive and switched on, and we worked really fast. I think we trusted ourselves more. We homed in on things. So when we went into the studio with Simone, he just had these sh#$ty, very low-fi iPhone recordings that left a lot more to the imagination than the previous processes. And that was exciting.”

Tickets to the South African concerts will be available for sale via Ticketmaster from 27 May.