XIU XIU – ‘A Knife In The Sun’ video // UK & EU shows next month
Following positive reviews for his new record Angel Guts : Red Classroom and ahead of a mammoth European Tour, including a headline show at Birthdays, London – all dates below – Jamie Stewart’s XIU XIU have also unveiled another delightfully weird for ‘A Knife In The Sun’ which can be seen below…
The video was directed by Diego Barrera who said this about the video…
“Barrerra described the video as “two journeys, from darkness to the light of sea (from masculinity to eternal feminity), and the awns of a patriarcal society (The Religion, The Clinic and The Armed Forces), in their path to (masculinization) self-destruction. The Alchemical Androgyne (The Hermafrodite / Rebis), ever present character in my videos, embodies my search in the androgenization rites, in this case a rite performed by indigenous tribes where a man makes a cut in his crotch as a symbol to inhabit in a woman body, to live in the middle of two imposed sexes. A symbolic castration that I present as an invitation to “man” to reflect about his feminity. The other character is basically my way of using the right of rebellion through art, to criticize religión which seek to control the souls, current clinic aims to control the body (based not on health but disease) and The Armed Forces as the top of a pyramid that ends up collapsed.”
XIU XIU will embark on a pretty mammoth UK and European Tour through May…
Tuesday 20 May – LEEDS – Brudenell Social Club
Thursday 22 May – LONDON – Birthdays
And full tour dates below…
APRIL
Wednesday 30th April – Krems, AU – Donau Festival – Jeremy Wade/Monika Grzymala/Xiu Xiu: Dark Material
MAY
Thursday 1st May – Krems, AU – Donau Festival – Xiu Xiu show + Jeremy Wade/Monika Grzymala/Xiu Xiu: Dark Material
Friday 2nd May – Krems, AU – Donau Festival – Jeremy Wade/Monika Grzymala/Xiu Xiu: Dark Material
Saturday 3rd May – Krems, AU – Donau Festival – Jeremy Wade/Monika Grzymala/Xiu Xiu: Dark Material
Sunday 4th May – Krems, AU – Donau Festival – Jeremy Wade/Monika Grzymala/Xiu Xiu: Dark Material
Monday 5th May – St Gallen, CH – Grabenhalle with The Residents
Wednesday 7th May – Lausanne, CH – Le Romandie
Thursday 8th May – Venezia, IT – Teatro Fondamenta Nuove
Friday 9th May – Udine, IT – Pn Box
Saturday 10th May – Torino, IT – El Barrio
Sunday 11th May – Brescia, IT – A Palazzo Gallery
Monday 12th May – Lyon, FR – Grrnd Zero
Tuesday 13th May – Paris, FR – Petit Bain
Wednesday 14th May – Brest, FR – La Carene
Thursday 15th May – Lille, FR – La Malterie
Friday 16th May – Utrecht, NL, Ekko
Saturday 17th May – Gent, BE, Democrazy @ DOK-Box with White Hinterland
Sunday 18th May – Rotterdam, NL, WORM
Tuesday 20th May – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club Games Room
Thursday 22nd May– London, UK – Xiu Xiu & ATP present “The Reds Of Their Eyes” @ Birthdays with Blood Music
Friday 23rd May – Groningen, NL – Lepel Festival
Saturday 24th May – Copenhagen, DK – Jazzhouse with Circuit Des Yeux
Sunday 25th May – Berlin, DE – Volksbühne with Owen Pallett
Tuesday 27th May – Hamburg, DE – Kampnagel
Friday 30th May – Moscow, RU – PIPL with Psychic TV
JUNE
Satursday 1st June – St Petersburg – RU – Zal Ojidaniya with Psychic TV