Devin Townsend is on a roll this week, announcing plans in a stream-of-consciousness fashion via Twitter. Yesterday he dropped info like the themes of his upcoming album Empath, the personnel involved with its recording and more. Today he added to the info, sharing plans for his upcoming live shows.
Unlike recent live performances with Devin Townsend Project which featured a steady cast of musicians, Townsend appears ready to try something new. In a tweet, he talked about how going forward it’s going to be a lot different for him. With a band he needed to keep on a payroll, he was forced to grind and constantly tour to pay the bills. Like he mentioned in our interview from earlier this week, Townsend doesn’t plan to form a new band while he goes out on tour.
Instead, he will do something completely different — what he refers to as a “One Man Show.” His post suggests these shows would consist of a combination of acoustic and electric music, Q & A and spoken word. Those worried that this is the end of an era for Townsend can breath easy. He doesn’t plan to completely abandon his ideas for big shows with crazy production (like his recent Plovdiv show playing Ocean Machine in full with an orchestra), but simply take a temporary shift in approach.
His second-to-last tweet of the day explains that while music is very important to him, so is finding a balance in life. He also makes it clear that right now his priority is to make Empath the best album possible and that it’s both a leap of faith and a turning point for him.
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