UK Alt-Rock Band bôa Shares the Celestial “Beautiful & Broken” + Sells Out North American Fall Tour
May 3, 2024 BY Bailey Vigliaturo
The exceptional British Alt-rock band bôa returns with a celestial second single, “Beautiful & Broken,” via Nettwerk. Since the resurfacing of the band’s 1998 single “Duvet” on TikTok, the song has soundtracked nearly 300,000 videos and gathered over 450M streams on Spotify. The song’s resurgence with a new generation of fans inspired the band to come back together to write and record new music with a renewed sense of passion. To celebrate the release of “Beautiful & Broken,” bôa is excited to announce a new U.K./Ireland leg of their tour this fall, following their already sold-out North American stretch, which includes Los Angeles’ The Fonda and Brooklyn’s Warsaw. A full list of tour dates is below.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “BEAUTIFUL & BROKEN” HERE
Recorded with producer Chris Zane (Jack Antonoff, Passion Pit, St. Lucia), the string-laden folk-pop “Beautiful & Broken” details the liberation of finding peace in your flaws. Lead singer and songwriter Jasmine Rodgers (daughter of Bad Company’s Paul Rodgers) says, “Some of the lyric-writing has come from a place of me being mixed race and a female in a world where I didn’t feel particularly comfortable. I’m still always reviewing and assessing that. It’s about a really dark time in my brain, talking to the darkness just before you go to sleep when you can’t sleep and are trying to find comfort.” Now, more polished than ever and two decades later, “Beautiful & Broken” has arrived and is available on all digital and streaming platforms HERE.
bôa first introduced this new body of work with lead single “Walk With Me,” which premiered via Nylon. A bright, expansive song enveloped in the optimism of starting over again, the track is technically about meeting someone new after a past breakup, but also serves as a welcoming, arena-ready call to getting the band back together.
The band’s extended hiatus begane in the mid-2000s and brought no hostility, no dejection, no gripes. The band members simply lived life. Vocalist-guitarist Jasmine Rodgers studied zoology, alongside releasing solo music. Bassist Alex Caird threw himself into art, painting and teaching music. And drummer Lee Sullivan ensconced himself in family life, while writing and producing music. All the while, they kept in touch, and their time apart gave them a heap of life experiences for a new chapter of music.
TOUR DATES 2024:
NORTH AMERICA
*w/Rocket, ^w/Sea Lemon
September 11 – Voodoo Room – San Diego* – SOLD OUT
September 13 – The Fonda – Los Angeles* – SOLD OUT
September 14 – August Hall – San Francisco* – SOLD OUT
September 17 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland^ – SOLD OUT
September 18 – Neumos – Seattle^ – SOLD OUT
September 20 – Thalia Hall – Chicago* – SOLD OUT
September 23 – Horseshow Tavern – Toronto* – SOLD OUT
September 25 – Warsaw – New York City* – SOLD OUT
September 26 – Warsaw – New York City* SECOND DATE ADDED
September 27 – The Sinclair – Boston* – SOLD OUT
September 28 – The Foundry – Philadelphia* – SOLD OUT
September 29 – The Atlantis – Washington D.C.* – SOLD OUT
U.K./IRELAND TOUR DATES
October 17 – Thekla – Bristol
October 18 – 02 Institude 3 – London
October 19 – The Bodega – Nottingham
October 20 – King Tut’s – Glasgow
October 22 – Band On The Wall – Manchester
October 23 – Brudnell Social Club – Leeds
October 25 – Whelan’s – Dublin
October 27 – CHALK – Brighton
October 29 – HERE at Outernet – London
