Beth Gibbons — Passengers: Bibliothèque nationale de France
Recorded July 8, 2024
Bibliothèque nationale de France — Salle Ovale, site Richelieu · Paris · 
France
Setlist
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Album featured at the showLives Outgrown2024Nine of the ten songs in the performance come from Lives Outgrown, released less than two months before the recording.“To see Beth Gibbons bring her solo debut to the oval room of the Richelieu library, just after releasing it in 2024.”
Context
In July 2024, the oval room of the Richelieu library welcomes a voice used to choosing its appearances. Beth Gibbons returns to Paris after singing at the Salle Pleyel in May. Between the two dates, Lives Outgrown sets the center of this phase: songs about loss, transformation and the passing of time.
In the historic space of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gibbons opens with Tell Me Who You Are Today and moves through nine tracks from the record. Mysteries breaks that run and brings back her partnership with Rustin Man. Seven musicians surround the singer, with strings, winds, keyboards and percussion in the band's instrumentation.
The night takes television form in the Passengers series, directed by Sébastien Lefebvre for ARTE. The film preserves a specific meeting between newly released songs and a place of memory. Reaching Out closes the sequence, while the library gives a concrete frame to Gibbons's questions about what endures.
- Mysteries opens a passage to her partnership with Rustin Man amid nine songs from Lives Outgrown.
Lineup at this show
The lineup of this performance — not necessarily the current one.
- Beth GibbonsVocals
- Eoin RooneyGuitars, marching snare and backing vocals
- Emma SmithViolin, clarinet, guitar and backing vocals
- Tom HerbertBass, Fender VI and backing vocals
- Jason HazeleyKeyboards and ondes
- Howard JacobsContrabass clarinet, vibraphone, timpani, baritone saxophone, flutes, bass drum, percussion, metal percussion, gongs, percussive guitar and backing vocals
- Richard JonesViola, guitar and backing vocals
- James FordDrums, harmonium, tenor recorder, backing vocals and musical direction
Trivia
Whispering Love is the only one of the ten tracks on Lives Outgrown left out of the performance.
Mysteries is the only song in the set credited to the Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man partnership.
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