Acclaimed Asheville musician MJ Lenderman has revealed plans for his first European and UK headlining tour scheduled for November 2024.
The tour kicks off in Berlin on November 11th, hitting nine EU/UK cities before wrapping up in Dublin on November 23rd. Full dates are listed below, and tickets are going on sale tomorrow, Friday May 3rd at 10am UK time / 11am CET here.
European & UK Tour Dates 2024:
11-Nov-24 Berlin, Privatclub (DE)
12-Nov-24 Hamburg, Hafenklang (DE)
14-Nov-24 Amsterdam, Bitterzoet (NL)
15-Nov-24 Brussels, Botanique Witloof Bar (BE)
16-Nov-24 Paris, Point Ephemere (FR)
19-Nov-24 London, The Garage (UK)
21-Nov-24 Manchester, YES Pink Room (UK)
22-Nov-24 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club (UK)
23-Nov-24 Dublin, Workman’s Club (IRE)
MJ Lenderman is a songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and scuzzed out guitar; a voice reminiscent of the high-lonesome warble of a choirboy. Songs snake their way from a lo-fi home recording to something glossier made with longtime friends at Asheville’s Drop of Sun studios, but the recording setting doesn’t seem to matter much – at its core, a Lenderman song rings true.
These are stories about everything from a relationship disintegrating outside the high-end butcher shop to a sighting of football star Dan Marino at the local Harris Teeter; from a love song built around a t-shirt kiosk at the airport, or the malaise of a grill rusting in the rain. And those are just some of the things you might find across his three solo records: “MJ Lenderman” (2019), “Ghost of Your Guitar Solo” (2021), and break-through acclaimed studio debut, “Boat Songs” (2022). Lenderman’s songwriting is simple and true, stories delivered with a loping, easy vibe – a shrug of the shoulders, off-the-cuff guitar riffs fuzzy, a tangle of pedal steel and rock ‘n’ roll distortion culminating in alt-country cacophony. An MJ Lenderman song feels like a postcard from a hazy memory, the unpredictable bits and details that end up sticking – bird songs from the rafters of a hardware store, a real good Bob Dylan cover – and what make a story whole.
At the end of last year, MJ Lenderman released a live album, “And the Wind (Live and Loose!)”, which marked the first album with ANTI- Records.
