Wight Announce 15th Anniversary Tour with Buddha Sentenza
15 years of Wight, huh? I recall vividly digging their recently-reissued 2011 debut, Wight Weedy Wight (review here), and the progression they’ve unfolded in the years since — their most recent album is 2020’s Spank the World (review here) — they came to embrace first a psychedelic take and settled into a funkish groove based around that, emphasizing performance and daring to be fun in an unironic way. Well, at least mostly unironic. Cheekiness has always been a factor, along with a good deal of charm.
They’ll head out for live shows to celebrate the anniversary, which is fair enough, in the company of Buddha Sentenza, who as fate and luck would apparently have it are also celebrating their 15th year in 2023. Cheers to both bands and safe travels. You don’t even have to look as far as the poster to know this’ll be fun, but you might want to check it out anyway.
And worth noting that 15 years in, Wight aren’t resting on laurels. I saw some studio-adjacent antics in a post on whichever social it was, so they’re at least around recording equipment, which if you’ve ever heard music before you know is an important step toward making a thing.
And while I’m ticking boxes, I’ll further note that the only reason I’m posting Wight‘s announcement of these shows instead of Buddha Sentenza‘s is I saw Wight‘s first. Fair’s fair.
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Wight’s 15th anniversary tour with Buddha Sentenza
As you might have noticed on social media, we had our 15th anniversary this year. We prepared a special set for our birthday show back in April, and we’d like to play a few more gigs with that one. So far we have only played locally this year, but now we’ll be going on a short tour through Germany in November. We’ll have our friends of Buddha Sentenza with us, who coincidentally also just turned 15 years old. (The band that is, not the members.)
Listen to their new album here:
https://buddhasentenza.bandcamp.com/album/high-tech-low-life
The tour dates:
01.11 Bessunger Knabenschule – DARMSTADT (Wight only!)
02.11 SubKultur – HANNOVER
03.11 Supamolly – BERLIN
04.11 Schlachthof – EISENACH
11.11 Bessunger Knabenschule – DARMSTADT (Buddha Sentenza only!)
We are planning to play live a lot more in 2024, and also go to other European countries. If you have ideas or suggestions, let us know! So far, we have the following gigs confirmed:
25.11.2023 Bessunger Knabenschule – DARMSTADT (Comic Cosmos Party)
09.02.2024 Schlachthof – WIESBADEN (with 24/7 Diva Heaven and Galactic Superlords)
10.02.2024 P8 – KARLSRUHE (with 24/7 Diva Heaven and Galactic Superlords)
17.05.2024 Lucky’s Luke – TRIER
18.05.2024 Horst – SAARBRÜCKEN
19.05.2024 Sonic Ballroom – KÖLN (with Bushfire)
26.07.2024 Broken Man Festival – NEUNKIRCHEN
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