will she ever tour again?

[arucinluv]

?

[Magnetar]

I think so, but I doubt it will ever be on the scale of the Cornucopia tour again. Honestly, I don't mind that though. As she ages gracefully, I would love to see her return to a more simple set-up, like the MTV Unplugged/Biophilia staging meets the Homogenic tour. Something like, vocals/strings/beats, but more intimate. Something like that. Or maybe in a few years she'll just beam it directly into our brains.

[u•ɹɥʇ•ɯ]

yeah, i am sure there will be live performances in the future but probably on a smaller scale. given that cornucopia was a logistical nightmare and had to be scaled down post-covid due to rising costs i don’t think we will see another extravagant tour like this.

she is also in her 60s and nowadays admits to being a homebody who wants to be in bed by 10.30pm so i suppose the days of playing 70 dates incl. late-night headlining festival spots on four continents in support of an album are behind her. would expect shorter tours, fewer gigs, likely focused on major cultural hubs (nyc, london, paris etc.). and very high ticket prices to make up for it lol

definitely wouldn’t be surprised if she did more orkestral shows in the future, the model of showing up to the venue with just a dress and her twunk conductor and playing with local ensembles is more financially sustainable than dragging 18 trucks across europe

[Anak]

I'm sure she'll make time for some facemelting DJ sets till her 90s however

[meisbaer]

I wouldn't mind a set up like the greatest hits tour. She did have quite a few musicians with her, but the staging was quite small. Apart from the big filmscreen of course . Has she ever really done minimal, really ?

[u•ɹɥʇ•ɯ]

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I would be totally fine without a big ass screen behind her. Yes, Cornucopia had incredible visuals, crafted with great care and creating spatial effects I’d never seen before at a live performance, but I doubt she’ll top this. Meanwhile, the short Vulnicura and Utopia tours in 2015–2018 took such a lazy approach – either just the music video or stock National Geographic footage projected behind her. The Biophilia app visuals also looked sort of corny. I remember thinking the moon phases changing to the beat looked like a cheap screensaver lol

The Volta tour had no video projections, IIRC – just lightning and lasers – and it was cool

[felt.helmet]

orchestral was kinda minimal (apart from having a lot of musicians on stage) but there was nothing special about the stage itself which I liked, the only thing was her outfits really. I felt much more connected to the music and the emotional aspect of it on orchestral than with cornucopia, where I feel there was too much stuff going on/to look at

[faber]

a cute way for her to be "visual" without crowding the stage too much (i loved Cornucopia btw) would be with light projections, she kinda already used those for Homogenic back in the days, and the lasers during volta, but i feel like she could experiment a lot with sculptural and volumetric lighting

[arucinluv]

a cute way for her to be "visual" without crowding the stage too much (i loved Cornucopia btw) would be with light projections, she kinda already used those for Homogenic back in the days, and the lasers during volta, but i feel like she could experiment a lot with sculptural and volumetric lighting

that would be cool. kinda like a shadow theatre

[ultramarine]

a cute way for her to be "visual" without crowding the stage too much (i loved Cornucopia btw) would be with light projections, she kinda already used those for Homogenic back in the days, and the lasers during volta, but i feel like she could experiment a lot with sculptural and volumetric lighting

that would be cool. kinda like a shadow theatre

sufjan's carrie & Lowell tour comes to mind, at least the way is was shot for the film

[felt.helmet]

As anybody ever toured in total darkness ? Live music but in the dark so there s nothing else but sound to enjoy, would love to go crazy and experiment stuff like that

[u•ɹɥʇ•ɯ]

As anybody ever toured in total darkness ? Live music but in the dark so there s nothing else but sound to enjoy, would love to go crazy and experiment stuff like that

Autechre shows are like that, they play in total darkness, with some strict rules regarding the crowd behaviour during the show – no phones, no lights, no moving around during the performance unless there is an emergency etc. (of course there are always some assholes in the audience who ignore them but what can you do)

it is a great experience – slightly disorienting at first but after a while your body just becomes one with the throbbing bass (earplugs advised! lol)

[felt.helmet]

Oh great ! I didn’t know !

[childwithlepro]

I get a slight impression reading this topic that some fans in here think that Björk’s somehow retiring?

recently, She has said clearly that she’s going to be techno raving till she’s 90s', so I’ll took that as an indication that hopefully there are still many things to come.

Personally, I’d love her to do a simpler tour this time, with more dates and venues around the world rather than some grandiloquent shows with difficult-to-travel-with productions like Cornucopia.

Also, more actual gigs and less dj sets.

[digitalsky]

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I would be totally fine without a big ass screen behind her. Yes, Cornucopia had incredible visuals, crafted with great care and creating spatial effects I’d never seen before at a live performance, but I doubt she’ll top this. Meanwhile, the short Vulnicura and Utopia tours in 2015–2018 took such a lazy approach – either just the music video or stock National Geographic footage projected behind her. The Biophilia app visuals also looked sort of corny. I remember thinking the moon phases changing to the beat looked like a cheap screensaver lol

The Volta tour had no video projections, IIRC – just lightning and lasers – and it was cool

[meisbaer]

Yes, I also immediately thought of the banners and the flags cor the Volta tour
That is the tour where I started making the little 4um flags so that we could recognise each other at concerts (before relyable/affordable mobile internet).

I think this topic is more about what she can do next when touring. As the original run of Cornucopia was so expensive and really hard to top. The last leg of the tour was already a bit toned down, without the choir and less of the special instruments. This would have reduced costs already.

Touring is very expensive these days, and I feel that Björk might be reluctant to ask for a lot more money for tickets. I think I paid 107 euros for a fantastic, third row seat at the front in Hamburg. Bit more for 1st ring seats in brussels (but that was still with choir etc). That is still a lot of moeny, but you got amazing show for that.

She has said before she usually doesn't make money from tours. But of course she also doesn't want to loose a lot of money. You can also see that she doesn't announce one big tour at once, but they are in batches, spread out over a longer period.