MRG Live presents
MRG Live Presents: BENEE - WORLD TOUR 2022
Event Details
Date
Sunday, June 26, 2022
Time
Doors: 7:00 PM - Show: 8:00 PM
Age Restriction
All Ages
Venue
Vogue Theatre
Address
918 Granville St, Vancouver, BC
Artist
BENEEAbout the Event
with special guests Dreamer Boy
Doors 7:00 Show 8:00 PM
Supalonely singer BENEE announces her first foray out into the world since the pandemic struck.
The 21 year old New Zealand artist broke through with Supalonely, the four billion streaming single from her second EP, and has had to wait for a chance to tour outside her home country again.
Next year sees BENEE head back to Europe and the UK in April-May and North America in June, traveling to play the Northern hemisphere for the first time since 2019.
She managed to fit in a sold out summer 2020 tour of New Zealand with the release of her Hey u x album.
“I am beyond excited to announce that my WORLD TOUR KICKS OFF next year!!!!!!!!!,” says BENEE. “It’s been such a long time coming & we’ve lived through a lot in these weird times but shows starting up again has rly got everyone sosososodo happyyy!!!! I can’t wait to get back out there & meet all of u and play a bunch of new musiiiiiicccc!!
“I AM SO READY TO TOUR!!” she exclaims. “Doing shows with my band is the best thing and I have missed it so badly this year. Waiting, rescheduling, waiting again has been incredibly difficult.”
BENEE’s dreamy alt pop mixes her deeply heartfelt reflections on life in suburban Auckland, New Zealand, with offbeat and often whimsical lyrical encounters with zombies and snails, all produced with a technicolour ear for cooked beats and unpredictable hooks.
She has just released her first new music since 2020’s album Hey u x.
The album was a vibrant musical world with guests ranging from Grimes and Lily Allen to Gus Dapperton and Muroki (another New Zealand teen BENEE has since signed to her own label, Olive).
It was listed as one of Billboard’s 25 Best Pop Albums of 2020, noting that BENEE “contemplates the woes of Gen Z with a keen ear for choruses and arrangements that oscillate between indie rock and hyperpop”. Stereogum praised its “quirky but impeccably produced pop music” and Vogue called it “13 tracks of heavenly indie-alt-pop”.
Latest single Doesn’t Matter, another deeply revealing track that reflects the singer’s journey through the emotional clatter of 2021, is off to a flying start, streaming over 1million times in its first week.
A forthcoming BENEE EP release leads into plans for 2022 with the thing that excites her the most, a hefty touring schedule that will bring her live show to adoring fans around the world at last.
Tickets to BENEE’s world tour dates go on sale this week. Go to beneemusic.com for more info.
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Benee Meet & Greet Package
- One general admission ticket
- Early entry into the venue
- Exclusive meet & greet with Benee
- Personal photograph with Benee
- Exclusive Benee tote bag
- Exclusive merchandise item (tbc)
- Official meet & greet laminate; autographed by Benee
- Limited availability
Benee Early Entry Package
- One general admission ticket
- Early entry into the venue
- Exclusive Benee tote bag
- Exclusive merchandise item (tbc)
- Commemorative VIP laminate
- Limited availability
Important Information
BENEE
BENEE is the dreamy voice of a disaffected generation, breaking through in 2020 with “Supalonely,” her irresistible, four billion streaming alt-pop banger that practically defined the pandemic experience.
Twenty-one year old Stella Bennett mixes her deeply heartfelt reflections on life in suburban Auckland, New Zealand, with offbeat and often whimsical lyrical encounters with zombies and snails, all produced with a technicolour ear for cooked beats and unpredictable hooks.
A fervent online following and been drawn to BENEE’s two intriguing EP releases, Fire On Marzz and Stella and Steve before her guest-packed, yet highly personal Hey u x album was released at the tail end of 2020.
The album was a vibrant musical world with guests ranging from Grimes and Lily Allen to Gus Dapperton and Muroki (another New Zealand teen BENEE has since signed to her own label, Olive).
It was listed as one of Billboard’s 25 Best Pop Albums of 2020, noting that BENEE “contemplates the woes of Gen Z with a keen ear for choruses and arrangements that oscillate between indie rock and hyperpop”. Stereogum praised its “quirky but impeccably produced pop music” and Vogue called it “13 tracks of heavenly indie-alt-pop”.
Platinum Awards piled up around the globe and she performed “Superlonely” — live from New Zealand — onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Ellen Degeneres Show and Late Night With Seth Meyers and recorded a heartfelt live version of album opener “Happen To Me” for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
A year on, BENEE returns with new music in the form of “Doesn’t Matter”, another deeply revealing track that reflects the singer’s journey through the emotional clatter of 2021.
The song sees Bennett pondering what it would be like to feel truly carefree. “People telling you not to worry or saying ‘it doesn’t matter’ don’t understand it is not that simple,” she says. “Having been helped with my own anxiety and depression, I want others to know there is a way through.”
“Doesn’t Matter” is the first track to turn up from the pile of music BENEE has been quietly chipping away at through 2021. It has been a tough year, she notes, a time that has seen her feeling at her lowest and having to learn to cope with her anxiety, diagnosed this year as OCD.
A forthcoming BENEE EP release leads into plans for 2022 with the thing that excites Bennett most, a hefty touring schedule that will take her through a second consecutive summer of headline shows and festivals at home before jetting off to Australia, Europe and North America through April to July.
“I AM SO READY TO TOUR!!” she exclaims. “Doing shows with my band is the best thing and I have missed it so badly this year. Waiting, rescheduling, waiting again has been incredibly difficult."
Expect the world to be ready and waiting for her.
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