List of Björk concert tours

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This is a comprehensive listing of tours made by Icelandic music composer and singer Björk, including the repertoire of songs performed on each tour. Note that individual concert set-lists do not necessarily include all the songs listed for each particular tour. Indeed, since the Vespertine tour in 2001 setlists have changed dramatically from show to show.

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[edit] Debut Tour

This tour mainly focused on her album Debut. She toured from 1993 to 1994. The tour was released on VHS and DVD as Vessel. A separate release, Debut Live, contains material from the 1993 MTV Unplugged performance, which features a much larger set of backing musicians.

New Tracks:

[edit] Post Tour

This tour mainly focused on her album Post. She also performed some songs from her first album Debut. She performed a total of 19 songs on the tour. The tour was released on DVD and VHS as Live at Shepherds Bush Empire. Some tracks from that release also appear on Post Live.

From Debut:

  • Human Behaviour
  • Crying
  • Venus as a Boy
  • Big Time Sensuality
  • One Day
  • Violently Happy
  • Anchor Song

From Post:

New Track:

  • 5 Years

[edit] Homogenic Tour

This tour focused on her third album, Homogenic. She also added songs from her previous albums. 23 different songs were performed. The tour band consisted of an Icelandic string octet and musician Mark Bell on beats, who had co-produced the album with Björk. The tour was released on DVD as Live in Cambridge. A separate release, Homogenic Live, contains a selection of Björk's favourite performances from throughout the Homogenic tour.

From Debut:

  • Human Behaviour
  • Venus as a Boy
  • Come to Me
  • Violently Happy
  • Anchor Song
  • Play Dead

From Post:

  • Hyperballad
  • You've Been Flirting Again
  • Isobel
  • Possibly Maybe
  • Headphones
  • I Go Humble (B-Side, sung featuring lines from "Wanna Be Startin' Something" on several dates)
  • Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu (Icelandic traditional instrumental song)

From Homogenic:

[edit] Vespertine Tour

This tour focused on her fourth album, Vespertine. She also performed songs from Debut, Post, Homogenic and Selmasongs. She performed 35 shows on this tour and 31 different songs. The tour band consisted of harpist Zeena Parkins, electronic duo Matmos, a Greenlandic choir and a 70-piece orchestra (local to each venue). The tour was released on DVD as Live at Royal Opera House and the concert held at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo, Japan was broadcast on Japanese TV-station WOWOW. A separate release, Vespertine Live, contains a selection of Björk's favourite performances from throughout the Vespertine tour, while a tour documentary, Minuscule, was also released.

From Debut:

  • Human Behaviour
  • Venus as a Boy
  • Anchor Song
  • Play Dead

From Post:

  • Army of Me
  • Hyperballad
  • You've Been Flirting Again
  • Isobel
  • Possibly Maybe

From Homogenic:

From Selmasongs:

  • Overture
  • I've Seen It All

From Vespertine:

From Greatest Hits:

New Track:

Covers:

  • Gotham Lullaby (Original by Meredith Monk)
  • Le Petit Chevalier (Original by Nico)

[edit] Greatest Hits Tour

With the release of her Greatest Hits, Björk did another world tour. The songs performed were mainly from Vespertine and Homogenic. She performed 28 shows on that tour and sang 32 different songs. The tour band consisted of an Iceland string octet, electronic duo Matmos (who had previously been part of the touring band for Vespertine) and musician Leila Arab (who had previously been part of the touring band for Post). There was a notable lack of focus on material from Debut and Post. This is the only one of Björk's tours not to have had a corresponding DVD or CD release, although a live track of "All is Full of Love" from this tour can be found on the soundtrack to the Icelandic film Screaming Masterpiece, whilst the film itself contains partial live performances of both "All is Full of Love" and "Pluto".

From Debut:

  • Human Behaviour
  • Sídasta Ég (B-Side)

From Post:

  • Army of Me
  • Hyperballad
  • You've Been Flirting Again
  • Isobel
  • Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu (Icelandic traditional instrumental song)

From Homogenic:

  • Hunter
  • Jóga
  • Unravel
  • Bachelorette
  • 5 Years
  • Pluto
  • All Is Full of Love
  • Scary (B-Side)
  • Nature Is Ancient (B-Side)

From Selmasongs:

  • I've Seen It All
  • Scatterheart

From Vespertine:

  • Cocoon
  • Pagan Poetry
  • Aurora
  • An Echo, a Stain
  • Heirloom
  • Generous Palmstroke (B-Side)
  • Mother Heroic (B-Side)

From Greatest Hits:

  • It's in Our Hands

New tracks:

  • Where Is the Line (Later released on Medúlla)
  • Desired Constellation (Later released on Medúlla)
  • Mouth's Cradle (Later released on Medúlla)
  • A Capella (Later released on Medúlla as "Show Me Forgiveness")
  • Nameless (Later released on the Drawing Restraint 9 soundtrack as "Storm")

Cover:

  • Gotham Lullaby (Original by Meredith Monk)

[edit] Volta Tour

Overall, 48 songs were done on the tour focusing on many tracks from Debut through to Vespertine, though mostly from Medúlla and Volta, the former of which did not receive its own tour. The tour band consisted of drummer Chris Corsano, musician Mark Bell (who also accompanied Björk on the Homogenic tour), pianist Jónas Sen (who played celeste on the tracks Gratitude and Cetacea on the Drawing Restraint 9 soundtrack), musician Damian Taylor and a 10 piece female Icelandic brass section. Many of the songs evolved considerably during the tour, including "Innocence" which was re-done so as to incorporate brass elements. Live performances of the track "Declare Independence" made heavy use of the ReacTable, an electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop Tangible User Interface, which is played by Damian Taylor. The Tenori-on was used heavily in performances of "Who Is It". A live DVD and CD of the Volta tour was released as part of Voltaïc. The tour was Björk's first in four years and saw her play countries that she had not played in over ten years.

From Debut:

  • Human Behaviour
  • Venus as a Boy
  • Aeroplane
  • Come to Me
  • Anchor Song
  • Síðasta Ég (B-Side)

From Post:

  • Army of Me
  • Hyperballad (Mixed with Mark Bell's track "Freak")
  • I Miss You
  • Cover Me
  • It's Oh So Quiet (Last show only)

From Homogenic:

From Selmasongs:

  • Overture

From Vespertine:

From Medúlla:

From Volta:

Also:

  • Brennið Þið Vitar (Traditional Icelandic song, played as a walk-in by the brass band)
  • Softly (Volta B-side, with Toumani Diabaté at Expo Zaragoza)

[edit] Biophilia

Björk is currently on tour with her multimedia project Biophilia. Many instruments were created and brought on stage specifically for the shows: a tesla coil, a bespoke pipe organ that accepts digital information, a pin-barrel harp, a midi-controlled gamelan-celesta hybrid, and a pendulum that harnesses the earth’s gravitational pull to create musical patterns. Musicians include Max Weisel (app developer)[1], Matt Robertson (electronics, midi instruments and musical director), Manu Delago (hang drum and percussion), the Icelandic Female Choir and Jón Stefánsson (choir conductor). Jónas Sen (harpsichord, pipe organ and gameleste) also participates in the concerts during the Reykjavík residency. Animations by Stephen Malinowski are shown during the performances.[2] So far 33 songs have been performed.[3]

From Debut:

  • Venus As a Boy
  • One Day

From Post:

  • Hyperballad
  • You've Been Flirting Again
  • Isobel
  • Possibly Maybe

From Homogenic:

  • Jóga
  • Unravel
  • Pluto
  • All Is Full Of Love

From Vespertine:

  • Hidden Place
  • It's Not Up to You
  • Pagan Poetry
  • Unison
  • Generous Palmstroke

From Medúlla:

  • Pleasure Is All Mine
  • Where Is The Line
  • Who Is It (Bell Choir Mix)
  • Sonnets/Unrealities XI
  • Mouth's Cradle

From Volta:

  • Vertebræ by Vertebræ
  • Declare Independence

From Biophilia:

  • Moon
  • Thunderbolt
  • Crystalline
  • Cosmogony
  • Dark Matter
  • Hollow
  • Virus
  • Sacrifice
  • Mutual Core
  • Solstice
  • Náttúra

[edit] Opening acts

Debut Tour:

Post Tour:

Homogenic Tour:

Vespertine Tour:

Greatest Hits Tour:

Volta Tour:

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[edit] References

  1. ^ "Björk's Biophilia Live Show". http://www.nysci.org/visit/events/event/biophilia. Retrieved January 9th, 2012. 
  2. ^ "Biophilia shows Manchester booklet". http://www.bjork.fr/IMG/pdf/bjork-mif-booklet.pdf. Retrieved 10 August 2011. 
  3. ^ "List of Biophilia shows". http://www.bjork.fr/-Concerts-?annee=2011. Retrieved 10 August 2011. 
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