Be virtually there at Katie Melua’s live stream debut
Multiplatinum musician Katie Melua has announced a worldwide, ticketed global live stream concert in conjunction with Driift, with tickets on sale now.
Following phenomenal reviews for Album No.8, Katie’s eighth consecutive UK Top 10 album and BBC Radio 2’s Album Of The Week, the Georgian/British singersongwriter and her band will perform in one of London’s most spectacular venues, the historic Rivoli Ballroom, on December 4.
“I could not be more delighted to perform Album
No. 8 and some favourites from my back catalogue with my dear band and crew next month,” said Katie.
“Since seeing the very first Driift show, which was Laura Marling at Union Chapel, I’ve been hell-bent on finding a way to bring our team together in a gorgeous setting to play live for our fans.
“Our choice of venue is the beautiful Rivoli Ballroom in the heart of London.
“Opened in 1913 and a famous dancehall in the 1950s, the building was the setting for the video for our recent single A Love Like That.
“I had the pleasure of performing on its spectacular stage for the shoot and I can’t wait to return to finally play for an audience.”
The special live performance will be directed by Charlie Lightening, who also directed the Love Like That video.
And joining Katie on the stage will be Tim Harries on bass, Mark Edwards on keys, Zurab Melua on guitars, Joe Yoshida on drums and Nina Harries on double bass and backing vocals.
For this, her first-ever global live stream, Katie chose to partner with Driift, an artistfirst promoter and producer whose recent ticketed live stream events have included acclaimed concerts by Laura Marling, Nick Cave, Niall Horan, Dermot Kennedy, Biffy Clyro and James Bay.
This multi-camera event will be live streamed to fans around the world, timezoned to specific regions.
The show will not be available on-demand after it has taken place.
With no audience in attendance, the only way to watch it will be to purchase tickets to the live stream broadcast.
Since her breakthrough as a teenager in 2003 with her debut album Call Off
The Search, which became a six-times platinum seller in the UK, Katie has become one of the world’s best-loved and most successful female artists.
Album No. 8, only released in October, saw Katie take the role of sole lyricist, and received some of the best reviews of her 17-year career.
Praise came from The Times, which remarked on the record’s “shades of Dusty Springfield, Minnie Riperton and other stars of the late sixties/early seventies golden age” while the Sunday Times described the single A Love Like That as “sinuous, sepulchral pop-noir at its most enveloping”.
The Daily Telegraph described its then chosen Album of the Week as “evoking the fall of autumnal leaves” and lavished praise on “its melodies, unhurried rhythms and gentle balance of acoustic instruments with richly orchestrated strings that convey Melua’s self-composure”.
Recorded in London and Georgia and produced by
Leo Abrahams, Album No. 8 features The Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra and a special guest appearance from the Gori Women’s Choir, with whom Katie collaborated on 2016’s Top 10 album In Winter.
Tickets for the upcoming live stream concert are available from katiemelua.lnk.to/ Live website.