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Evergreen

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Echo & The Bunnymen’s second coming, London Records revisit the band’s triumphant album Evergreen, set for release on the 18th November and available to pre-order now. Evergreen receives a vinyl pressing for the very first time, with an initial run of limited edition solid white vinyl available to pre-order here. The anniversary release also features an expanded double CD version with an extensive array of studio B-sides, radio sessions, and unreleased live versions across 33 tracks. 

In January 1997 Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Ian McCulloch decided to come back together in a recording studio for the first time in ten years. The reborn Bunnymen entered Doghouse studios in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, the self-produced sessions further embellished with strings, horns and vocal arrangements at Abbey Road. The resultant album achieved the almost impossible; commercial, conceptual and critical acclaim on a par with their past achievements.

Evergreen marked a critical and commercial renaissance for the band; an album that rightfully returned them to the Top 10, sporting three UK hits including the seminal ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’. The song crashed the UK Top Ten at number 8 in June 1997, the highest new entry in the band’s career and equalling their best ever chart position for ‘The Cutter’. The Bunnymen had proved themselves not only deserving of a second wind but effortlessly welcomed by the musical landscape of the late-90s. Arriving in the season of Oasis’s Be Here Now and The Verve’s Urban Hymns, Evergreen was both of and beyond its time. 

NME called it “impossibly good. The first comeback in history not to be dogged by a nauseous sense of distress, the first one to actually sound important”, the Melody Maker declared “the new songs are as good as the old songs, and probably better than almost anything you’ll hear this year”. 

“Someone asked me the other day why I reunited the Bunnymen,” McCulloch commented that summer. “Well, I haven’t. I’ve re-ignited the Bunnymen. Having said that, they never stopped glowing somewhere in my heart.”

PRE-ORDER here https://echobunnymen.lnk.to/evergreen25

STORE: https://bunnymen.tmstor.es

Rescheduled dates for our Houston and Dallas shows.

We are pleased to be able to share with you the rescheduled dates for our Houston and Dallas shows.

23/09/22 Houston

24/09/22 Dallas

Tickets for the original dates are still valid.

Dallas House Of Blues show has been postponed

We are sorry to say that tonight’s Dallas House Of Blues show has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Please hold onto your tickets for further information. We are hoping for a quick reschedule.

NorthAmerican Tour

We are so excited to be starting our North American tour on Monday 15th August in Atlanta. If you haven’t already you can purchase tickets via Bandsintown or our website Bunnymen.com Don’t miss the chance of celebrating 40 years of our magical music.

Sign Of The Times

SAD TO ANNOUNCE THAT DUE TO A MEDICAL ISSUE WE’RE UNABLE TO APPEAR AT FRIDAY’S SIGN OF THE TIMES FESTIVAL. WE’RE SORRY NOT TO BE SEEING EVERYONE BUT WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE NEXT YEAR.

More dates added to 2022 North America Tour

We are excited to announce that we have added Montreal and Pittsburgh to our 2022 North America tour.

FAN PRESALE: Will be live Wednesday, June 29 via Bunnymen.com at 10AM local time. Make sure to use the code EATB40

GENERAL SALE: Will be Friday, July 1 (10AM local)

Sinner’s Day Festival

We are pleased to announce that we will be headlining the Sinner’s Day Summer Festival on the 24th June and also the Sinners’s Day Winter Festival on 31st October in Oostende Belgium. Tickets available via bunnymen.com

Echo & The Bunnymen 2022 USA Tour

We are pleased to announce our Echo & The Bunnymen USA 2022 Tour.Bunnymen Fans can get tickets via Bunnymen.com from Wednesday, May 18 (10AM local) – Thursday, May 19 (10PM local) before the general public on Friday, May 20 (10AM local) by using the code EATB40I can’t wait for this upcoming tour of America and Toronto It will be a continuation of the U.K. tour we did in February/March of this year which was my favourite ever tour, and talking to fans and friends after shows and reading loads of brilliant comments from Bunnymen and Bunnywomen, all saying pretty much what I was feeling,…that some new magical ingredient had been added to the starlight and the moonbeams and the angels and the devils that live inside the songs.I love, and the band love, touring around America at any time but the experiences of special night after special night in the U.K. makes me certain we will take the shows up another level or two in the U.S.A.See you soon, Mac X

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN USA 2022August 15th Atlanta Tabernacle August 17th Houston House Of BluesAugust 19th Dallas House Of Blues August 20th Austin Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theatre August 23rd Phoenix The Van Buren August 24th San Diego The Observatory North Park August 26th Los Angeles The Theatre at Ace Hotel August 29th Oakland Fox Theatre August 31st Portland Roseland Theatre September 1st Seattle The Showbox September 3rd Salt Lake City The Union Event Centre September 4th Denver Ogden Theatre September 6th Minneapolis The Fillmore – Minneapolis September 7th Chicago The Vic Theatre September 9th Detroit St Andrews Hall September 10th Toronto Queen Elizabeth Theatre September 13th Boston House Of Blues September 14th New York Terminal 5 September 16th Philadelphia Union Transfer September 17th Washington Lincoln Theatre

Bunnymen and The Rolling Stones

We are very pleased to announce that we are sharing a stage with the Rolling Stones on the 9th June at Anfield. Tickets available via Bunnymen.comThere’s Nothing Like The Rolling Stones. And There’s Nowhere Like Anfield. I can’t explain how unbelievably happy and proud I am that my band Echo & The Bunnymen are going to be opening up for The Rolling Stones, THE Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the History of Time, at Anfield, the Shrine of Life and football…The Rolling Stones!!! And at Anfield!!! I feel honoured and blessed…Thank you GodX Mac

Cruel World Festival

Due to visa delays out of our control, we won’t be playing this years ‘Cruel World’ Ian & Will are gutted not to be there, we’ll see you at next years festival..