{"id":1547475,"date":"2026-01-13T17:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1547475"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:59:55","slug":"life-without-buildings-announce-first-show-in-24-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1547475","title":{"rendered":"Life Without Buildings Announce First Show in 24 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Life Without Buildings Announce First Show in 24 Years<\/h1>\n
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\u201ccat’s oot the bag\u201d wrote guitarist Robert Dallas Gray<\/div>\n
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Twenty-four years after Life Without Buildings called it quits, the art rockers will reunite for the 50th anniversary of Rough Trade\u2019s London store. The show takes place November 20 at the London venue KOKO.<\/p>\n

\u201ccat’s oot the bag then!,\u201d wrote Robert Dallas Gray on BlueSky, confirming the reunion set. The guitarist added the Glaswegian quartet \u201cdecided the 50th anniversary of Rough Trade was an appropriate time to get back together … been a strange ride remembering the songs!\u201d He also promised there will be \u201cat least\u201d one warm-up show, likely in Glasgow, with \u201cpossibly more\u201d to come.<\/p>\n

Formed in 1999 by fellow Glasgow School of Art students Gray, Will Bradley, and Chris Evans, Life Without Buildings began as an all-instrumental outfit before recruiting vocalist Sue Tompkins to join. The band released its lone studio album, 2001\u2019s Any Other City,<\/em> on Rough Trade Records, and broke up a year later. In October, the members announced an official release of their final song, \u201cLove Trinity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

Source URL: http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/life-without-buildings-reunion-show-rough-trade\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Life Without Buildings Announce First Show in 24 Years \u201ccat’s oot the bag\u201d wrote guitarist Robert Dallas Gray By Alex Suskind January 13, 2026 Life Without Buildings, photo by Andy Wake Twenty-four years after Life Without Buildings called it quits, the art rockers will reunite for the 50th anniversary of Rough Trade\u2019s London store. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1547478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1547475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-pitchfork-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}