John Butler - Live in Paris (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Off the back of a massive sold out tour across Europe, Australian icon John Butler has announced his latest live album release ‘John Butler - Live In Paris’, a triple vinyl + double CD release, recorded over two magical sold out shows at the prestigious Le Trianon in Paris.

Captured during his debut solo tour of Europe in the Summer of 2022, the brand new release - which is the fifth live album from the West Australian multi-award winner - captures the full concert, giving fans access to two hours of energetic songs, stories, life ponderings and the philosophies behind some of John Butler's most beloved songs.

Featuring passionate renditions of crowd favourites such as ‘Zebra’, ‘Betterman’, the instrumental epic ‘Ocean’ as well as an exclusive spoken word track ‘Wings To Fly’ and a reworking of ‘Revolution’ utilizing loop technology, John Butler - Live In Paris is an immersive live experience, recorded for fans across the world to enjoy.

"May 2022. After two years of lockdowns worldwide. After bearing witness to a graphically tumultuous time.

What seemed to me to be a lifting of the veil that took the world by storm and rolled out a series of socio-political reckonings and subsequent shit shows. Somehow, after two years of social upheaval and a virus that had grabbed our global society by the scruff of the neck and shaken the shit outta it, tickets to my solo European tour (that had been postponed twice!!) were still being held on to by fans. WTAF!!! Seemed like I wasn’t the only one who was holding on to the idea of something better on the other side of what ever the hell we’d all been through.

This tour, during the first spring after it all, was nothing short of a tender balm on a weary heart. A soft bandage on a raw wound. It felt like that for me at least and I know many of the audience felt the same way. I’m so glad it was solo. It needed to be intimate, raw and vulnerable.

It needed to go back to the very basics and the core. To story telling and bearing the bruised heart open so all could see that we were in the same boat together trying to work out what had just happened and where we were now.

The fact that I could record a couple shows in Paris during this tour was truly a gift. France has always, from the very beginning, welcomed me like a long lost brother. We have a kindred spirit of rebelliousness and fire. Of cheeky irreverence and a passion for romance and art at it’s most unabashed.

I’ve been wanting to make a live album in France for decades. I’m so grateful it happened when it did. In such a profound time and in a spring that will probably never have the same prelude again. I hope you enjoy it even half as much as I did making it."

Tracklist:
01. Intro Start
02. Cold Wind
03. Spring to Come Intro
04. Spring to Come
05. Miss Your Love Intro
06. Miss Your Love
07. Better Than
08. Betterman
09. Faith Intro
10. Faith
11. Treat Yo Mamma
12. Coffee, Methadone & Cigarettes Intro
13. Coffee, Methadone & Cigarettes
14. Wings to Fly
15. Wade in the Water
16. Zebra Intro
17. Zebra
18. Ocean Intro
19. Ocean
20. Revolution Intro
21. Revolution
22. Peaches & Cream Intro
23. Peaches & Cream
24. Pickapart Intro
25. Pickapart


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