Beabadoobee returns with her new single "Last Day on Earth", her first new music since the release of her debut album Fake It Flowers at the end of last year.
"Last Day on Earth" was written at the very start of the pandemic and imagines what she’d have done had we known what was ahead of us, unfolding as a night of fun in the song’s video which was directed by Arnaud Bresson of Division Paris (M.I.A, Rosalia, ASAP Rocky).
"Last Day on Earth" is the first track to be taken from beabadoobee’s forthcoming new EP, Our Ex-tended Play, written and produced with Matty Healy and George Daniel of The 1975. The pair spent an early lockdown with Bea and her band in the Oxfordshire countryside, collaborating from the ground up on a diverse collection of new songs.
Bea says: “Last Day on Earth is about all the things I would have done had I known we were going into a lockdown and the world was going to change the way it has. It was written shortly after the first main lockdown, and lyrically it’s me reflecting on how it would feel if we all knew ahead of time what was going to happen. All the things I would have done if I knew it was the last day of our old normality. I wrote and recorded the EP on a farm with Matty and George from The 1975 in the countryside. It was really nice being able to create together, my first time writing and recording in that kind of setting. I wanted to experiment on the sounds and sonic even more and the EP to me has a feeling of togetherness to it… how we’re all in this joined as one”.
Beabadoobee is set to play a run of headline shows later this year. The Fake It Flowers tour will take place across the UK and Ireland in September and October, taking in 14 dates across the country, including a hometown show at London’s O2 Forum in Kentish Town. Final tickets are on sale now.
2021 UK & IE Tour Dates:
Tue 07 Sep - MANCHESTER - O2 Ritz
Thu 09 Sep - LEEDS - Beckett University
Fri 10 Sep - NOTTINGHAM - Rescue Rooms
Sat 11 Sep - BIRMINGHAM - O2 Institute
Mon 13 Sep - CAMBRIDGE - Junction
Tue 14 Sep - LEICESTER - O2 Academy
Thu 23 Sep - LONDON - O2 Forum Kentish Town
Fri 24 Sep - BRISTOL - SWX
Sat 25 Sep - OXFORD - O2 Academy
Tue 28 Sep - DUBLIN - The Academy
Wed 29 Sep - BELFAST - Oh Yeah Music Center
Sat 02 Oct - NEWCASTLE - University Students Union
Sun 03 Oct - EDINBURGH - The Liquid Room
Mon 04 Oct - GLASGOW - SWG3
Born in the Philippines and raised in London, Bea Kristi began recording music as Beabadoobee in 2017. At just 20 years old, Beabadoobee has built her huge, dedicated Gen-Z fan base with her flawless output of confessional bedroom pop songs and DIY aesthetic.
Her first track, "Coffee" gathered hundreds of thousands of streams in a matter of days, through a fan-uploaded video, and has since taken on new life as a sample in Powfu’s TikTok and worldwide chart-dominating hit.
Beabadoobee’s highly anticipated debut album Fake It Flowerswas released in 2020 to widespread critical acclaim (“a thrilling debut from Gen-Z’s newest guitar hero”, NME 5, “the charismatic star of the indie revival”, The Times 4, “at once raw and confessional, yet at the same time anthemic in scale”, Dazed), and debuted in the top 10 of the UK charts.
At the start of last year Bea took to the road on a UK arena tour with labelmates The 1975, including two sold out shows at London’s O2 arena.
The end of 2019 also saw her tour the US with Clairo, headline the sold out Dirty Hit Tour and release her acclaimed third EP Space Cadet, the follow-up 2018’s Dirty Hit debut Patched Up and her stardom cementing Loveworm.