Anna Calvi pushes the envelope in her music by transcending the elusive boundaries of feminine and masculine traits. Her three albums have been a great hit thus far and she has announced her fall tour dates in the UK and two US shows in December. The UK shows will be in the UK, Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Ireland and US shows will take place on December 4 at The Echo in Los Angeles and December 7 at Rough Trade in Brooklyn, New York. She will perform songs from the album, Hunter.

In her album, Hunter she has a song titled, “As a Man,” where she is described as ‘mocking the all-too-common, misogynistic practice of praising women for acting “manly” but tearing down men for acting feminine’. In the track,  “Don’t Beat the Girl out of My Boy”, Calvi criticizes the conditioning of children to conform to stereotypical gender roles.

Calvi has been shortlisted for the 2019 Mercury Prize, in fact this is her third nomination (one nomination for each album) for the Mercury Prize and she says, “I’m so thrilled to get shortlisted, this is such a personal record and I put everything I had into it. It really means the world to me.”

More importantly, Calvi has scored the entire season of Peaky Blinders the amazingly, stellar series on BBC One. Calvi is extremely thrilled about it and says, “This is a new thing for me but it was a really good fit, I love everything about the show. I completely immersed myself in it and became quite obsessed with the characters, especially Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy) and getting lost in his mind.” She also adds, “There is a duality to the show, a beauty and a brutality, which I have been exploring in my own music and on the ‘Hunter’ album. I want to say thank you to the director Anthony Byrne for believing in me and letting me seek out what I needed to.”

Anna Calvi Tour Dates
07/19-07/21 – Latitude Festival – Suffolk, UK
07/19-07/21 – Bluedot – Macclesfield, UK
07/26-07/28 – Womad – Wiltshire, UK
07/26-07/28 – Deer Shed – Topcliffe, UK
07/31 – Suoni di Marca – Treviso, Italy
08/02-08/04 – Playground Festival – Glasgow, UK
08/02-08/04 – All Together Now – Portlaw, Ireland
08/08 – Kulturarena Jena – Jena, Germany
08/11 – Edinburgh International Festival @ Leith Theatre, UK
08/16-08/18 – Pukkelpop – Hasselt, Belgium
08/19 – Helsinki Festival, Helsinki, Finland
08/21 – PopKultur – Berlin, Germany
08/22-08/24 – EDP Vilar de Mouros – Portugal
08/23-08/25 – Future Yard – Birkenhead, UK
08/31 – Live Rock – Acquaviva Picena, Italy
12/04 – The Echo – Los Angeles, CA
12/07 – Rough Trade – Brooklyn, NY