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Scotsman
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
The Lumineers, Glasgow review: 'manicured roots pop'
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The Lumineers, Hydro, Glasgow ★★★ Lumineers founders Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites are celebrating 20 years of making music together, expanding to an instrument-swapping six-piece for this arena tour. This is new-ish, expansive territory for the Denver band but they've brought the cool multi-coloured lighting effects to embellish their manicured roots pop and wordless singalongs so beloved of TV soundtrack compilers. The Lumineers |They kicked off a bumper set of around 30 songs with the double drummer action of the prophetic Same Old Song, featuring forced vocals from frontman Schultz. If his voice was a little ragged, we later found out why: his younger brother Sam had just passed away and the entire show was dedicated to him. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'You gave me something to do with all this emotion,' Schultz told the crowd as he resurrected the cover of Talking Heads' This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody) he played at his brother's wedding. His band members rallied in a group hug while the crowd waved their phone lights in an act of communal compassion. The band wasted no time in advancing to the end of their stage catwalk to connect with their people, while a slick small army of stagehands facilitated the changeovers. Flowers In Your Hair, side one track one of their debut album, demonstrated that the pop bluegrass template was always there, sterilised to sound like a US Mumford & Sons or Ed Sheeran when he's in Radio 2 mode. Most of the set followed a similar formula, taking in the simplistic chant of pop worksong Ho Hey and the shouty indie folk cabaret of Big Parade, with each band member taking their turn on vocals.
Scotsman
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
The Lumineers Glasgow Hydro Stage Times: Gig set times, support, tickets, setlist, age restrictions
The Lumineers have a date with Glasgow. | Getty Images for Bob Woodruff Fo A band famed for thier chart-topping Americana are on their way to Scotland. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Formed in Denver in 2005, The Lumineers found fame with their self-titled 2012 debut album which went top 10 around the world - including hitting number 2 on the Billboard US charts. Since then they have become one of the world's most popular folk-rock bands, thanks to songs like Ho Hey, Stubborn Love, Ophelia, Angela and Cleopatra. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad They have now released five studio albums, most recently this year's Automatic, and are known for their energetic live shows. The band are currently on a world tour in support of their new album, and there's good news for Scottish fans - with a date in Glasgow. Here's everything you need to know. When are The Lumineers playing Glasgow? The Lumineers play Glasgow's OVO Hydro on their UK tour on Thursday, May 29. Who is supporting The Lumineers at their Glasgow gig? The Lumineers will be supported ar their Glasgow Hydro gig by singer-songwriter Michael Marcagi. Marcagi rose to fame after his song Scared to Start went viral on TikTok and became a UK Top 10 hit. Well worth turning up early for. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad What are the stage times for The Lumineers at the Glasgow Hydro? Doors open at 6.30pm and Michael Marcagi will take to the stage at 7.30pm. Expect The Lumineers to start their set at around 9pm - but best make sure you're there by 8.30pm to ensure you don't miss the start of their set. The show will finish by 10.45pm. Are tickets still available for The Lumineers? If you've decided at the last minute that you'd like to go to the gig then you're in luck - there are still a few tickets left, with prices starting at £48.10. You can find them here. Are there any age restrictions at The Lumineers' Hydro gig? It's over-14s only in the standing sections for the Twenty One Pilots gig, and over-8s in the seated areas. All under 16s must be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18. What is the likely The Lumineers setlist? The Lumineers are mixing it up on the tour, not playing the same setlist every night. Having said that, expect to hear the majority of the following, taken from their recent London show.
The Guardian
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘It sounds terrible but I listen to it 30 times a day': how the Lumineers made Ho Hey
After growing up in Ramsey, a small town in New Jersey, we moved to New York to try to make it in music but found it a very difficult circuit to break into. Bars would let you play because they wanted your friends to buy drinks, but then they'd kick everybody out to get the next group in. Whenever I would meet people, I'd tell them, 'I'm a waiter but I play music,' and they'd go, 'Yeah, so does my cousin.' The prospect of playing somewhere like the [iconic New York venue] Mercury Lounge felt about as likely as playing a stadium. I wrote Ho Hey about these experiences. I had the beginnings of another song that was going to be called Everyone Requires a Plan, but it had no words or melody. Once I started strumming it again, Ho Hey just poured out of me. Looking back, I was writing about two heartbreaks at the same time. A person had recently broken up with me and I was also leaving New York and moving to Denver – breaking up with the city that I thought held all my dreams. I felt steamrollered by both events. The opening lines are me trying to convince myself that striving to become a successful musician was a noble pursuit: I had been 'trying to do it right' and 'living a lonely life'. The hook is pure defiance: you might have broken up with me but 'I belong with you, you belong with me'. It's an unconventional song in that it doesn't have a chorus. We made numerous attempts to record it. We even tried recording it in the bathroom to get natural reverb. The song needed a kind of looseness. When producer Kevin Augunas stepped in to finish it, he pointed out that a lot of our favourite records had been recorded without using a click track, or metronome, so suggested we try that. Suddenly it worked. The bit where it goes 'one, two, three' is a cue for us to slightly speed up. I came up with the 'ho hey' chant after listening to the Felice Brothers cover the old railroad song Take This Hammer and wanting something similar. We were moving away from bar band covers to doing our own songs, so shouting 'Ho hey!' from the stage got people's attention. We were shouting to be heard. Then suddenly everyone started listening. A little bar in New York used to pay us $100 and give us cheeseburgers and beers to play. Whenever we'd do a Bob Dylan or Coldplay song, all ears were on us. But when Wes would say, 'Here's an original,' everyone would flee for a cigarette break or to play billiards. After we moved to Denver, we would do 14-hour drives to play in New Mexico or Nebraska. The journeys were killing us and we were losing money on gas, so we needed songs that could really grab people. Because Ho Hey was acoustic, we could unplug our instruments, physically leave the stage and go out into the audience. Initially, Wes created a fragment of it, then we worked on the song in my parents' attic like crazy. At one point it was heavier, like a White Stripes version with driving guitar. At the same time, I was learning about home recording, so we burned a raw version of Ho Hey and six other songs on to 200 CDs. Our friends would say stuff like: 'You should rerecord it. It sounds like shit, but I listen to it 30 times a day.' So we knew it had something. After we got management, we recorded a studio version in some woods north of Seattle, trying to recreate the sound of my boots stomping on a wooden stage, which we had liked at an open mic. There's no bass on Ho Hey: it's a cello pizzicato which we made much louder. The song is like Italian cooking – there are so few elements that every ingredient needs to be perfect. When Kevin remixed the entire album, he pared everything back: the version of Ho Hey that became a hit is very similar to the one on that first burned CD. Initially, it charted at No 90. Then a TV show called Hart of Dixie played the whole song at the end of an episode and immediately people were asking: 'Who are the Lumineers?' A DJ in Seattle started playing it back-to-back and then it just took off. The Lumineers' new album, Automatic, is out now. The band play Utilita Arena, Cardiff, on 22 May, then touring
Los Angeles Times
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
How the Lumineers outlived stomp-clap's biggest hit
There's a version of the Lumineers story that ends about a decade ago, in the wake of the two-piece folk-rock band's struggle to duplicate the pop success of its debut single. The platonic ideal of the Obama-era stomp-clap sound also purveyed by Mumford & Sons and Of Monsters and Men, 2012's Grammy-nominated 'Ho Hey' made improbable stars of singer-guitarist Wesley Schultz and drummer Jeremiah Fraites, who'd come up playing house shows and open mics then suddenly found themselves on Top 40 radio amid the likes of Maroon 5 and Flo Rida. But if the Denver-based Lumineers have never returned to the upper reaches of the Hot 100, they've arguably achieved something better, quietly becoming one of rock's top live acts while exerting a crucial influence on the next generation of acoustic singer-songwriters. In 2023, Zach Bryan recruited the duo for 'Spotless,' a track from his chart-topping self-titled album; last year, Noah Kahan brought Schultz and Fraites onstage during a gig at Boston's Fenway Park. Then there's Shaboozey, who's said the Lumineers helped inspire his smash 'A Bar Song (Tipsy).' 'Zach has a tattoo of the 'Cleopatra' logo on his arm,' Fraites said recently, referring to the band's 2016 LP. 'And Noah, we were emailing once and he said, 'There'd be no Noah without the Lumineers.' It's kind of hard to wrap my head around.' Last month, Schultz, 42, and Fraites, 39, released their fifth album, 'Automatic,' which they'll support on the road this year with dates including stadium shows at Fenway and New York's Citi Field and a two-night stint at Inglewood's Kia Forum in August. Schultz spoke about it the other day in a conversation at the Sunset Marquis, part of a lengthy promotional trek he said was keeping him away from his wife and two young children longer than he'd been away in a while. 'My son Lenny's school had a music day where whoever wants to play can go up and play,' he said, dressed in jeans and a weathered Talking Heads T-shirt. 'I'm just going to be there with him, and then spontaneously he's like, 'I want to play 'Ophelia,' Dad — you come play with me.' He whispered the whole song, and I sang it over him.' You ever get self-conscious at school as Mr. Rock Star Dad?I think I'm blissfully unaware of whether that ever comes into the conversation. I have a friend who got a date with a dude from one of the apps. They were meeting at a park, and I went with her just to keep her company for a second in case it was weird. Halfway through the hang, he goes, 'So, what, you're in like a Lumineers cover band?' The songs might be famous, but as individuals we're not. And I wouldn't say that's necessarily by design, but it's not not by design. I like to joke that we're this generation's Steve Miller Band. I never gave a f— what that guy looked like. I never knew what he was up to. I'd just listen to his greatest hits and be like, 'This is a vibe.' There's something to be said for a cult of like shaky ground to build anything off of. Part of it is that I covered a lot of songs when I first started playing guitar, and if you played a good song in a bar, the room lit up. It wasn't like the artist was there playing it. I used to do 'My City of Ruins' by Bruce Springsteen, which isn't even a hit, and the room would just stop. What made you sure it wasn't you?Because then I'd play some of my own stuff and the place would go [fart sound]. I've never considered the Lumineers as elder statesmen —Same here. But you've become a touchstone act for a bunch of younger told me — he was like, 'You're my Tom Petty, bro' [laughs]. I was kind of stunned, because I still feel like a novice. How'd you end up on 'Spotless'?Looking back, this is very Zach Bryan — what he's really like in person — but he was playing a festival that we were also playing, and he came over to watch our set. He wanted to say hello, and he just showed up side-stage and our security was like, 'Whoa, whoa — where's your pass?' He's like, 'Oh, I was playing on the other stage.' They're like, 'No.' I only heard about this later. So I asked my manager to get me his number, and his manager was like, 'He'll call you — I'm not gonna give you his number.' All right, whatever. Sent him a message on Instagram, didn't hear back for months. Then one day I get a message, he's responding on Instagram. He's like, 'Dude, you're one of my idols.' I told him, 'Congratulations on all the success, and hopefully we can hang out one day.' He's like, 'We should write a song.' I'm like, 'Yeah, man — if you ever have a good idea, here's my number.' An hour later, he sends me an idea, and that was 'Spotless.' We went back and forth, but it was hilarious because as I was recording in my basement, I was supposed to be barbecuing for a bunch of friends I was hosting. They were all just waiting in my backyard as I recorded my parts. I'm like, 'There's this guy, Zach Bryan, and this song's gonna come out…' Within a year, they were all like, 'I've heard of that guy now.' Does it make you feel old to be described as someone's idol?I don't know — I mean, yeah. That would sting if I wasn't excited about this record we made. It's 20 years for me and Jer writing together, and I'd never felt more possessed by it. Do you know why?Because it was very uninhibited. It's like a Polaroid of a candid moment — wasn't posed in any way. We didn't make any demos, so what you're hearing is the first tries and second tries. What made you write the song 'A—'? I won't be able to print the title in the L.A. Times, so let's say for the reader that it rhymes with 'Glass Bowl.'It's autobiographical. My college roommates used to always say, 'When I first met you, I thought you were an a—.' My wife: 'First time I met you, I thought you were an a—.' Enough people tell you something…But I sort of took it as a badge of honor — like, she married me. I overcame that. What I think is cool about the song is the full-circle element of it, which is like: You're probably correct — I might be an a—. But so are you. You have a dark side, you're just not showing it. You think you still strike some people that way?I'm probably less guarded. But I'm just — how do I say it? — I'm a slow burn. I think if you asked my wife, she'd tell you tons of interactions I have on a weekly basis where she's like, 'What the hell, man?' and I'm like, 'What?' In 2013, 'Ho Hey' peaked at No. 3 on Billboard's Top 40 radio chart.I think it peaked at 2. My I was watching it, and I was like, I wonder if it'll ever get to 1? And it almost did. But it was at 3 for sure for at least one week [laughs]. The songs ahead of it at that week were Bruno Mars' 'Locked Out of Heaven' and Rihanna's 'Diamonds.' Everyone talked at the time about the unlikeliness of 'Ho Hey' becoming a hit. But looking back at what was around it on the chart really drives that friends would send me Howard Stern clips where he'd be running down the Top 10 and just get mad — like, 'What the f— is this?' The narrative goes that when you have a big song, you must have designed the song to be big. Things aren't a mistake, it's not an accident, there are no Cinderellas. But listen to that song and tell me that was supposed to be a hit. The essence of every interview we did at that time was: 'You guys are doing really well. Please explain.' Kind of insulting. The scary part after that was you face a fork in the road: You can either do the thing where you try to make other hits that show you weren't a one-hit wonder, or — like in our case — you just keep going and try to block it out. They tried to make 'Stubborn Love' a hit. They wanted to cut a bunch of the song — they said 4 minutes was too long. We were like, 'What do you mean? What are you gonna change?' Was that disillusioning in some way?I remember Third Eye Blind had an extra verse [in 'Semi-Charmed Life'] that I never heard until I heard the album version. I felt a little bit betrayed by that. What's that Billy Joel lyric? 'If you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit / So they cut it down to 3:05.' For us it was an easy no, but a lot of artists don't always realize that they're in the driver's seat. Why did you realize it?Because I was 30-plus. Also, what are you really after when someone asks you to do something like that? What matters to you more? Is it that you wrote the song and you love it that way, or that you love the idea of people knowing your name in the supermarket? We had meetings with a bunch of managers when we changed management in 2018, and I remember one guy spent half the meeting talking about how his clients fly on private jets. I was like, 'I don't really care about jets, man — I just want to write my own music.' Jets are but people write music sometimes to have the jets — it's the tail wagging the dog. You ever wonder what would've happened if you'd agreed to the radio edit?I'd love to run a simulation just to see. But here's the trap: Let's say you have two hits [in] the Top 40 format. Now you've created a standard by which your team is evaluating success in this very strange way. You notice what the format likes, you might start to subconsciously write to meet that format. Whereas the artists that last, they just do their own thing. It's like Neil Young said: 'When I was in the middle of the road, I aimed for the ditch.' Have the Lumineers done that?Our album 'III' was probably the closest we've come. We went out of our way to make something that was overtly depressing and cathartic. Depressing and cathartic?My wife's mom was an alcoholic for most of her parental life. We bought her a little house when the band started making some money — did the hip-hop thing. Living out of that house, she could drink a gallon of Tito's vodka every day. She could order out pizza and order out alcohol so she never had to leave, to the point where she was on a La-Z-Boy with a dish mat because she couldn't get up to use the bathroom. So the album was all about that and the aftermath of that and trying to imagine what led up to it. You know how everybody says 'Pinkerton' is Weezer's best record if you're a real Weezer fan? You'd be shocked how many people say 'III' is their favorite record. By the numbers, it's not the bestselling at all, but it doesn't matter. Some of the lowest lows make for some of the highest highs. And had 'Stubborn Love' got cut, I don't know if we make 'III.' The song 'Automatic,' from the new album, has some interesting images: 'Shooting stars / Driving your electric cars / Eating at the salad bars / Praying for the rain.'The original line was 'Shooting stars / Maybe a take a trip to Mars.' I was thinking of Elon [Musk] — it wasn't about him, but it was about how idealistic but also how dark things feel right now. It's the best, most cutting-edge time to be alive, yet if you measured people's happiness, most people would tell you how depressed they are. There's that Steinbeck quote about people viewing themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires — I'm more important than I am at my current station of life — and I feel like that's come back. There's a gluttony built into everything where if you're not careful, you're never satisfied. What's your most gluttonous tendency?I watch a lot of videos on YouTube. I try to read — I make deals with myself. But it's probably watching certain clips and getting in a weird algorithm. What's the wormhole?Lately I've been watching a lot of Coffeezilla, this guy who investigates fraud. I got into MrBallen, who tells crazy-good stories. Lot of Joe Rogan short clips. Shane Gillis is amazing. Name a creature comfort you've gotten used to even though you know it makes you kind of a brat.I keep kefir around because I don't like dealing with hotel breakfast. We have a traveling miniature gym — that makes me really happy to do something in the day. When I burn that energy, the anxiousness goes away for the show that's about to happen. And then my tour manager, her grandfather used to say, 'Life's too short to drink bad wine.' What do you drink?White Burgundy. A nice Chablis. I used to drink red wine, but I can't really as a singer now. Red wine messes with your voice?Ask any ear, nose and throat specialist who deals with singers and they'll probably tell you the same thing multiple ones have told me. Also, as a singer, if you're drinking red wine, your teeth get really dark and you look a little wild up there — a little Johnny Depp pre-dental surgery.
The Independent
21-02-2025
- The Independent
Funeral held for 15-year-old school stabbing victim who ‘deserved so much more'
Family and friends of a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death at his school gathered to remember a 'social butterfly' who 'deserved so much more' and 'had dreams, plans and a future ahead of him'. Hundreds of mourners attended Sheffield Cathedral on Friday for the funeral of Harvey Willgoose, who died after he was stabbed at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3. The death of the Sheffield United fan shocked the city, and the service was also broadcast on a big screen outside the building for those who could not fit inside. Some mourners wore T-shirts with pictures of Harvey's face and anti-knife crime slogans. Harvey's sister Sophie read a poem she had written for him, and his cousin Lana Swirles paid tribute to him as a 'loving and caring person'. She told the congregation: 'His laughter was contagious and his kindness knew no bounds. 'His adventurous spirit inspired us to enjoy life and seek out joy in the little things.' Leading the service, the Dean of Sheffield Cathedral Revd Abi Thompson said: 'None of us want to be here today, none of us want to be attending Harvey's funeral. But we are here, and we are here for each other.' Sharing memories from Harvey's family, Revd Thompson said he loved fishing with his granddad, was 'never far from a scrape' and his mother Caroline recalled that as a little boy his catchphrase was: 'Isn't it a lovely day?' She told mourners: ' One of Harvey's great gifts was his love of people, his kindness to others and his ability to talk to anyone. 'Young and old, Harvey had a way with people. He never stopped talking, he lifted people's spirits.' Revd Thompson read a tribute from Harvey's best friend Jake, which said: 'It breaks my heart that he was taken from us far too soon in a way that never should have happened. 'Harvey deserved so much more. He had dreams, plans and a future ahead of him. 'And while he's not here with us in the way he should be, I promise I'll carry his memory with me every day.' Revd Thompson went on to say: 'Harvey was a social butterfly and he was full of joy. Joy and love and laughter sum up Harvey's life. A life that was far, far too short. 'Many of you here today will feel pretty hopeless, miserable and afraid of what the world is like, and what the world has become. 'Amidst what feels like a very bleak day there are people here who are full of hope for the world, despite everything. 'Full of hope that the joy that was in Harvey carries far more weight than the manner of his death.' The service contained several nods to Sheffield United Football Club – 'the great love of Harvey's life' – including a coffin with a Bramall Lane design and mourners leaving the church to famous chant The Greasy Chip Butty Song. Other music during the service included Harvey's favourite hymn, 'Give me joy in my heart,' and 'Ho Hey' by The Lumineers. As the funeral cortege left the cathedral for a private service at a crematorium in the city, applause broke out from mourners gathered outside. After their son's death, Harvey's parents Caroline and Mark Willgoose released a statement which said: 'We are utterly heartbroken at the loss of our beautiful boy, 'Harvey Goose'. 'Our lives are devastated and will never be the same again.' A boy, also 15, accused of murdering Harvey has appeared in court and was remanded into youth detention accommodation. He is due to go on trial on June 30.
