Ben Howard

Name: Ben Howard
Start: 2024-10-18T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Bournemouth International Centre

Schedule

Fri Oct 18 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Bournemouth International Centre | Bournemouth, EN

Ben Howard is celebrating ten years of his critically acclaimed UK number one, second album, I Forget Where We Were in Bournemouth this Autumn.
The tour marks the first time Ben has revisited an album retrospectively, and will perform it through in its entirety. Fans can also expect live performances of songs from around the album’s initial release, including B-sides and rarities.
Arriving in 2014, and following the overwhelming triumph of Ben’s debut LP, Every Kingdom, I Forget Where We Were signalled almost a complete volte-face in sound and temperament. Where the charts were overwhelmingly welcoming acoustic instruments and a purity that Every Kingdom managed to encapsulate beautifully. I Forget Where We Were signalled the stark arrival something far stormier and shrouded in darkness and atmosphere. Debuting at the top of UK album charts and providing a stage for Ben to perform to bigger crowds than ever, including three sell out shows at London’s Alexandra Palace.
Right at the heart of the record is its epic title track, a song which, like the album its lifted from, more than stands the testament of time. When Ben unexpectedly dropped it into his headline set at London’s Royal Albert Hall last year (to welcome his fifth studio album, Is It?).
As an artist who rarely gives much time to looking back, I Forget Where We Were was a landmark moment in Ben’s career that first opened the door to an uncompromising spirit that has since stood him so well, and news of this anniversary tour should be greeted with the same dizzying levels of euphoria amongst his fanbase.