Perfume Genius / Mike Hadreas—whose new album Set My Heart on Fire Immediately is out now—will perform on the series LIVE ON KEXP AT HOME.
Thursday, June 25.
3 pm on the West Coast; 6 pm East Coast.
Perfume Genius, photographs by Camille Vivier. Images courtesy and © the photographer and Perfume Genius.
The world premiere engagement of THE SUN STILL BURNS HERE—a collaboration between choreographer Kate Wallich and her troupe The YC, performer Mike Hadreas / Perfume Genius, musician Alan Wyffels, and art director Andrew J.S.— starts this weekend in Seattle, followed by a New York presentation at the Joyce, and dates in Minneapolis and Boston.
THE SUN STILL BURNS HERE
Friday and Saturday, October 4 and 5, at 8 pm.
Moore Theatre
1932 2nd Avenue, Seattle.
Wednesday, November 13, at 7:30.
Thursday through Saturday, November 14, 15, and 16, at 8 pm.
Sunday, November 17, at 2 pm.
175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th Street), New York City.
From top: Kate Wallich and Mike Hadreas / Perfume Genius, photograph by Agustin Hernandez; The Sun Still Burns Here MASS MoCA work-in-progress rehearsal and performance, June 2019, photographs by Andrew J.S. (2); posters for the Moore and the Joyce engagements, photographs by Agustin Hernandez (2); Hadreas MASS MoCA photograph by Andrew J.S., The Sun Still Burns Here photograph by Agustin Hernandez. Images courtesy and © the artists, performers, designers, and photographers.
“You wake up and you’re like, ‘How could I be so close to essentially dying and not care?’ But then I would do [it] again. You do that enough and you’re like, ‘I have to figure this out.’ And you can’t figure out by like, ‘I’ll only do a little bit of cocaine, but I’ll do yoga….’
“I have not written or painted or done a single thing when I was fucked up. Definitely felt like I could, felt like I had a million ideas, but I never committed, never did anything when I was high. That’s the same as how people think you need some sort of depression to be creative, but it’s very different than sadness. Nothing comes from depression. Depression itself is like a void, but sadness, a lot of things can come from. You can be attentive and still have moments of sadness.” — Mike Hadreas/Perfume Genius (sober for eight years), New York magazine, 2017
The new album from Perfume Genius (NO SHAPE) is out, and the band returns to Los Angeles for a series of gigs, large and small:
PERFUME GENIUS, Thursday, July 20.
EL REY, 5515 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.
theelrey.com/events
PERFUME GENIUS, Saturday, July 22, at 7:45 pm. (Prior to Erykah Badu at 9:50 pm and Frank Ocean at 11 pm.)
FYF FEST, Exposition Park, Los Angeles.
fyffest.com/
THE XX and PERFUME GENIUS, Friday, September 29, at 7:30 pm
THE FORUM, 3900 West Manchester Boulevard, Inglewood.
perfumegenius.org
Perfume Genius (top) at FYF Fest 2017, and (bottom) onstage in Boston. Image credits: (top) Emma McIntyre/Getty Images; (bottom) Respect Your Youngers.
