New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Jake Shears (the multidisciplinary musician and frontman of seminal NYC indie glam-pop greats Scissor Sisters) has shared brand new track "I Used To Be In Love" and its accompanying video. The track follows the recent sharing of track "Devil Came Down the Dance Floor", featuring
Amber Martin and first single "Too Much Music".
A symphonic blast of house, hedonism, and the healing power of dance music, "I Used To Be In Love" is an anthem of abandoning your worries and finding yourself right at home in a crowd of strangers. It's a potent highlight of Last Man Dancing, in which Jake Shears takes a lifelong love affair with club culture towards bold creative heights, and at times dystopian depths.
The self-confessed Last Man Dancing witnesses Jake Shears back where he belongs: at the center of the party and central to the pop culture landscape he without doubt helped form. The record was conceived between the US, Portugal, and London (where Jake relocated from his New Orleans home during the pandemic) alongside the sort of head-turning guestlist that, in Shears' cross-pollinating universe, also makes total sense: from
Amber Martin and Boys Noize to Big Freedia, Kylie Minogue, and cameos from Jane Fonda and Iggy Pop. Tracks like "Last Man Dancing" summon this fresh start, but also a return to self in a record that's variously poignant, surreal and euphoric.
Throughout an unorthodox career that has spanned multi-million global album sales, Brits, Ivor Novellos, Grammy award nominations and arena tours, Jake Shears has continued to shape-shift: he has not only written an acclaimed memoir ('Boys Keep Swinging') and performed on Broadway, but also recently opened a musical in London to rave reviews (Tammy Faye, written alongside
Elton John and British playwright
James Graham).
That pull to keep moving, whether on the dancefloor, or in creating cathartic art, has remained a constant in Jake Shears' extraordinary life. In his own words, "while not everyone might make it to the end, it's the last ones dancing who are rewarded with the most magical moments."
With work that still speaks evenly to the margins and the masses, Last Man Dancing will launch alongside Jake Shears' welcome return to the stage. His UK tour, featuring an intimate London show at Village Underground, sold out immediately, with further live activity confirmed over the months ahead ranging from the
Aladdin Sane tribute at London's Southbank Centre alongside the Nu Civilisation Orchestra, to an arena tour with
Duran Duran this April. Full live dates are listed below, with much more to follow soon.
JAKE SHEARS LIVE UK DATES:
4/21/2023 || London || Southbank Centre ('Aladdin Sane: 50 Years')
4/29/2023 || Manchester || AO
Arena *
5/1/2023 || London || O2
Arena *
5/2/2023 || London || O2
Arena London *
5/4/2023 || Leeds || First Direct
Arena *
5/5/2023 || Birmingham || Utilia
Arena *
5/7/2023 || Dublin || 3Arena *
5/9/2023 || Glasgow || OVO Hydro *
5/30/2023 || Glasgow || SWG3 Warehouse
6/1/2023 || Brighton || Concorde 2
6/2/2023 || London || Village Underground - SOLD OUT
6/4/2023 || London || Mighty Hoopla
6/21-6/25/2023 || Glastonbury Festival
6/28/2023 || Lytham || Lytham Festival
28.06.23 || Lytham || Lytham Festival
7/8/2023 || Bristol Pride
7/23/2023 || Nottingham Splendour Festival
8/27/2023 || Manchester Pride
*w/ Duran Duran.
