Thomas Dolby, musician, record producer and, now, award winning independent film-maker has announced a U.K. tour in September and October 2013.
The British Synth player had chart success in the 1980s with hits like Windpower, Hyperactive! and She Blinded Me With Science before coming back with the phenomenal A Map of the Floating City which included the excellent Evil Twin Brother, Spice Train and The Toad Lickers in an album that was one of the finest releases of 2011.
The Invisible Lighthouse Tour sees Thomas Dolby take his latest film project on the road, and present it to audiences as a unique theatrical experience. Combining his music and art in one breath-taking show, the tour will focus on some of the U.K.’s most historic arthouse cinemas including Liverpool’s iconic FACT Cinema and a special night at the Union Chapel in Islington, London.
There is a mysterious island across the water off the East Anglian coast that, during its chequered history, has been an airfield, a military testing ground for experimental weapons and home to the main transmission network for the B.B.C. World Service. On the tip of the island is a beautiful lighthouse.
“Since I was a small child, I have fallen asleep, at night, to the soothing periodic flash of the light on my bedroom wall.” Thomas Dolby.
But, now, it is about to be closed down.
Like many lighthouses around the world, it’s becoming obsolete as ships adopt satellite navigation. With global warming and beach erosion threatening its very foundations, it’s soon going to be a pile of rubble left to fall into the North Sea.
Over the past year Thomas Dolby has taught himself to become a writer, film-maker and editor in order to produce this impressionistic documentary that follows in the vein of his music and lyrics, describing it as, “A kind of tone poem with music and moving images.”
Thomas Dolby’s The Invisible Lighthouse Tour is a unique transmedia performance, where he accompanies the screening with live narration and a musical soundtrack linking songs from various stages of his career, including Cloudburst At Shingle Street through to Oceanea and beyond.
The tour starts on September 10th at the Phoenix Cinema in Leicester before going on to venues in Southampton, Bristol, Canterbury before arriving in Liverpool on the 22nd September. The U.K. tour culminates in Sheffield on the 4th October.
Tickets for all shows except London’s Union Chapel are priced at £20 with the Union Chapel concert priced at £25.