Spiritualized ‘Pure Phase’ 30th anniversary UK tour @ Barbican Centre, London | 27-03-25

Spiritualized’s ‘Pure Phase’ 30th anniversary UK tour

Barbican Center
City of London
27-03-2025

Medication
The Slide Song
Electric Phase
All of My Tears
These Blues
Let It Flow
Take Good Care of It
Born, Never Asked
(Laurie Anderson cover)
Electric Mainline
Lay Back in the Sun
Good Times
Pure Phase
Spread Your Wings
Feel Like Goin’ Home
Encore:
Cop Shoot Cop...

Celebrated space rock band Spiritualized perform their seminal second album, 1995’s Pure Phase (Fat Possum Records, 1995) in full, for a very special one-off performance at the Barbican.
The album was performed by the band’s then-core trio of Jason Pierce, Kate Radley and Sean Cook, with the Balanescu Quartet adding string arrangements. It was made by running two mixes together concurrently on tape recorders, a process which frontman Jason Pierce describes as creating “this kind of Hawkwind effect (phase), which gets deeper as they drift away from being ‘locked’ ... we had to keep re-locking on a bass drum every eight or ten bars and it took forever.”
“Pure Phase,” he goes on to say, “was Michael Nyman, Steve Reich and John Adams, rock ‘n’ roll and gospel music, and it sounds like driving as fast as you can in torrential rain.” The album went on to receive widespread critical acclaim, with Louder Than War describing it as "probably the most groundbreaking drone album made in size and scope.”

Commenting on Pure Phase, J Spaceman says: “I think it’s quite extraordinary and I’d probably say it’s my favourite of the records I’ve made. The construction of it satisfied something in me that likes breaking the rules, not in any kind of grandiose way but there’s something in the process of that which really satisfies me. Each side of the stereo contains a completely separate mix. I checked the masters back and it still sounds like this extraordinary thing. It exists in its own space; it doesn’t sound like anybody else.”

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