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SUMMARY:BC Camplight @ The Mill Birmingham
DESCRIPTION:We're thrilled to announce we have BC Camplight joining us at T
 he Mill Birmingham this coming November 16th! \n\nThe American singer-song
 writer is back with a breathtaking album “The Last Rotation Of Earth” 
 following love\, loss\, struggles with addiction and declining mental heal
 th. The outcome is an extraordinary record\, with Christinzio describing i
 t as “more cinematic\, sophisticated and nuanced than anything I’ve do
 ne before.” \n\n𝐀 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭\, 𝐭𝐢𝐜
 𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏
 𝟎𝐚𝐦. 🎟\n\n“The Last Rotation Of Earth”\n\n(Bella Union –
  12th May 2023)\n\nIs there a curse that says Brian ‘BC Camplight’ Chr
 istinzio cannot move forward without being knocked back? That the greatest
  material is born out of emotional trauma? \n\nWhilst making his new album
  The Last Rotation Of Earth\, Christinzio’s relationship with his fianc
 é crumbled after nine inseparable years. The album follows this break-up 
 amid long-term struggles with addiction and declining mental health. The o
 utcome is an extraordinary record\, with Christinzio describing it as “m
 ore cinematic\, sophisticated and nuanced than anything I’ve done before
 .” He goes on to describe how the separation altered his creative focus 
 and caused him to “scrap 95% of what I’d already recorded”\, finishi
 ng The Last Rotation Of Earth in two months and making what he believes to
  his most vital album. \n\nStill\, Christinzio doesn’t see any of this a
 s a story of redemption. “This is not a story of victory\,” he says. 
 “It is a document created in the shadow of incredible darkness. One from
  which the creator hadn't planned on escaping\, and still doesn't. Hence t
 he title of the album. It is the result of an illness that I've battled my
  whole life. It isn't something that the world has done to me. It's the wo
 rld I live in and it's no one's fault.”\n\nThat Christinzio has bettered
  his previous album is an achievement\, given that Shortly After Takeoff r
 eceived the best reviews of his life. “A masterpiece\,” said The Guard
 ian’s 5 star review\, “a half hour or so that roils with anxiety\, stu
 ns with beauty and\, occasionally\, provokes laughter.” Even then\, fate
  intervened when the album was released in April 2020\, just as Covid and 
 lockdown kicked in\, so he was unable to tour the record until late 2021. 
 The Philadelphian then joked\, “I can't wait to make an album that isn
 ’t surrounded by some awful tragedy.”\n\nTalk about tempting fate. But
  it’s true to say that Christinzio has made his best music under immense
  duress\, and The Last Rotation Of Earth is an inimitable work\; a heady\,
  heavy slice of lustrous hooks\, moods bursting with classical sophisticat
 ion and fractured paranoia. Christinzio’s signature dizzying progression
 s and U-turns are executed with a masterful hand. A notable feature of the
  album are periodic conversational voices\, as if a cast of people were de
 livering their lines – which was exactly part of Christinzio’s thinkin
 g. “I wanted to make the songs resemble little films\, with lots of idea
 s\,” he says. “I love surprises in music\, which work against what we 
 are trained to expect in a song.” \n\nThere is no better entry to the Ca
 mplight school of sound and vision than the opening title track and lead s
 ingle. “For the first time since I arrived in Manchester\,” he says\, 
 “I thought\, why am I here? I came to find my music\, and to find her\, 
 and she’s gone. I do everything in my power not to be dramatic\, but I d
 idn’t want to be alive anymore. So\, I imagined what your last day on ea
 rth would be like. Though the lyrics are often quite sweet\, like apprecia
 ting the looks that strangers give each other\, from the perspective of a 
 guy soaking up every last bit of life.”\n\nThe audio-verité approach is
  clearest on track two\, ‘The Movie’\, a fully-fledged dramarama with 
 “scene one” and “scene two\,” directions. “I don’t find writin
 g cathartic\,” says Christinzio\, “but this was one exception. To step
  outside as the narrator to my own life did help in some psychotic way. It
  ends with a verbatim exchange of my break-up\, but with humour. I don’t
  want to say how shitty everything is over a 38-minute record. I’m still
  capable of being funny and alive.” The Last Rotation Of Earth is the be
 st example yet of these musical and lyrical powers\, and the increasing im
 pact that he has been making\, across his fan base and his peers. Humour h
 as long served as respite within Christinzio’s art. \n\nBlack comedy als
 o extends to Christinzio’s world-class live shows\, a typically exhilara
 ting\, phrenetic and exhausting experience for both performer and audience
 . Headlining Bella Union’s 25th birthday show in November 2022\, he pull
 ed a couch on to the stage\, as a prop to reinforce the idea of music and 
 performance-as-therapy\; his between-songs patter is equally charged and s
 elf-deprecating. The dynamic of light and shade also impacts the music. \n
 \nFrankly\, The Last Rotation Of Earth is dark. In musical terms alone\, 
 ‘Life In A Dozen Years’ is a form of sepulchral soul haunted by saxoph
 one and ruffled by bleak stabs of guitar. Christinzio returns to his catat
 onic break-up on ‘She’s Gone Cold’\, which indeed feels icy with a s
 ombre orchestral undertow from members of the Liverpool Philharmonic\, and
  killer lines that attempt to deflect the pain with humour: "She asks what
  we're building\, I say 'What do you think this is\, Homes Under The Hamme
 r? I'm the perfect man.”\n\nIn ‘Going Out On A Low Note’\, a euphori
 c blast of harmonies soundtracks Christinzio’s realisation that he’s n
 ot just lamenting the present but the future too (“The kids we’d have 
 had\, the swimming pool…” says Christinzio) whilst delivering another 
 true-to-life dissection of the conflict: "I'm not positive\, but I'm prett
 y sure\, you shouldn't cry when you listen to Faith No More"\n\n“I was s
 lightly concerned I had gone a little too gloomy\, so I had ‘Kicking Up 
 A Fuss’ bring the album up a little\,” he says\; namely\, the rhythmic
  drive of bouncy synths. Yet the song’s tragi-comic scenario is anything
  but upbeat\, with Christinzio\, “in a flea-bag hotel in Liverpool\, str
 uggling with the words to the song\, thinking\, how did I end up here\, wa
 tching Dickenson’s Real Deal?” But then he clocks a figure out of his 
 window\, about to jump off a building\, and imagines that it’s that man
 ’s last day on earth…\n\n‘The Mourning’ is a slow\, wordless elegy
  that takes the album out on a low note. “No grand finale\, more\, ‘I 
 wonder what happens next’\,” says Christinzio. “After everything peo
 ple have been through\, they’re suspicious of happy endings. Like I said
 \, this is not a redemption saga.”\n\nSo\, what does lie ahead? And can 
 Christinzio ever trust the future? When he began releasing records in 2005
 \, backed by members who would eventually join The War On Drugs\, and gues
 t-starring on Sharon Van Etten’s Epic album\, the future looked bright. 
 “But if I’d stayed\,” he once mused\, “I’d be dead. Period.” S
 o Christinzio took a friend’s advice to escape his alcohol and drug addi
 ctions in Philly and move to Manchester\, leading to his debut album for B
 ella Union\, How To Die In The North\; though just two days before it was 
 released in 2014\, he was deported . Back in the UK (with an Italian passp
 ort)\, he made Deportation Blues but just days before it was released in 2
 016\, his father died\, triggering a breakdown that inspired Shortly After
  Takeoff\, the last part of what Christinzio calls his Manchester Trilogy.
 \n\nSo\, he must begin again\; new album\, newly single\, clean slate. And
  without tempting fate again\, before the last rotation of earth\, BC Camp
 light and his band will tour The Last Rotation Of Earth\, including his bi
 ggest headline shows to date\, at London Shepherd’s Bush Empire and Manc
 hester’s Albert Hall. “It’s wonderful to realise the songs in front 
 of that many people\,” says Christinzio\, “I know I’m never going to
  be Coldplay\, but ten years ago\, I was certain I wouldn’t make music a
 gain.” \n\nTen years later Christinzio is still making important music\,
  still channelling the forces that have beleaguered him and making the mos
 t honest and candid work he can\, because anything else wouldn’t be BC C
 amplight.
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LOCATION:The Mill\, 29 Lower Trinity Street \, Birmingham\, England\, B9 4A
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