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THE BETHS
Release Live Album & Film
Auckland, New Zealand, 2020

+ Touring Australia
in November

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(Photo by Amanda Cheng)

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“[Auckland, New Zealand, 2020] catches the band at their bubbly best, playing a comforting hometown show… Hope for the future radiates from the live recording, as band members sum up the highs of their career to date.” – Paste

“The Beths have recorded and filmed one of the pivotal events of the year, their concert at the Auckland Town Hall. It’s high energy pop music for the ages.”  – Neil Finn (Fleetwood Mac, Crowded House, Split Enz)

“Man, the amount of unspeakable things we’d do to witness such life-affirming brilliance in the flesh.” – Blunt Mag

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Today, The Beths release their first live album and film, Auckland, New Zealand, 2020, on Dew Process. As first presented in the previously-released live version of “Future Me Hates Me”, and now followed by “Dying To Believe,” Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 showcases the infectious energy The Beths bring to every performance. The accompanying film presents the deep bond between Elizabeth Stokes, lead guitarist Jonathan Pearce, bassist Benjamin Sinclair, and drummer Tristan Deck, and captures the inside jokes they share with audiences during on-stage banter. They deliberately included the date and location because “That’s the sensational part of what we actually did,” says Pearce. In a mid-pandemic world, playing to a heaving, enraptured home crowd feels miraculous.

Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 is available to view in full on Vimeo and the band’s YouTube channel from 2PM AEST today. The Beths will also lead a Watch Party on their Patreon at 9AM AEST on Saturday, 18 September, so patrons can watch the film in real time with the band.

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After building a loyal following through live performances and their 2016 EP Warm Blood, The Beths signed to Dew Process and released the debut album, Future Me Hates Me, in 2018. Jump Rope Gazers, released in July 2020, was a slower, yearning follow-up that still fizzes and sparks with pop-punk sensibilities. Immediately seized on by both fans and music critics as a bright spot during an otherwise dark year, Jump Rope Gazers was named Album of the Year at New Zealand’s national Aotearoa Music Awards in 2020, and secured the band awards for Best Group and Best Alternative Artist for the second year running. The releases catapulted the band straight into lengthy international tours that saw them support legends like The Pixies and Death Cab For Cutie as well as headlining increasingly large shows of their own, including upcoming tour dates in Australia. See below for details.

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Australian Tour Dates
Tickets: Secret Sounds

Thu. Nov. 4 – Sydney, NSW @ Factory Theatre (2 shows)
Fri. Nov. 5 – Brisbane, QLD @  The Zoo (2 shows)
Sat. Nov. 6 – Melbourne, VIC @ The Night Cat (2 shows)

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Stream/Purchase
Auckland, New Zealand, 2020
Vinyl Album
Film
Stream

Live Album
Track-list

1. I’m Not Getting Excited 
2. Great No One 
3. Whatever
4. Mars, the God of War
5. Future Me Hates Me
6. introduction
7. Jump Rope Gazers
8. Uptown Girl
9. bird talk
10. Happy Unhappy
11. Out of Sight
12. thank you
13. Don’t Go Away
14. Little Death
15. Dying to Believe
16. River Run

Film Setlist

1. I’m Not Getting Excited
2. Great No One
3. Whatever
4. Mars, the God of War
5. Future Me Hates Me
6. Jump Rope Gazers
7. Uptown Girl
8. Happy Unhappy
9. Out of Sight
10. Little Death
11. Dying To Believe
12. You Wouldn’t Like Me
13. River Run

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