SPILL NEWS: DAN MANGAN SHARES NEW SINGLE “SAY WHEN” | GOING SOMEWHERE TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 20

DAN MANGAN SHARES NEW SINGLE “SAY WHEN”

GOING SOMEWHERE TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 20 | BEING SOMEWHERE OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

As Dan Mangan prepares to hit the road again this Fall, today the celebrated songwriter is sharing his new single “Say When”, a track written together with Lowell. “We were talking about how no matter how grateful you are for wherever you’re at in your artist journey, you still want more,” says Mangan. “It always feels like a truly big break is just around the corner, but that the obstacles between you and that break are ambiguous and ephemeral. It’s like you’re trying so hard and you’re stuck waiting for luck to come and anoint you. The song is totally earnest, but it’s also self-aware…like, I understand how ridiculous and self-indulgent it is to want cheerleaders to carry you through your hometown.”

In September, Dan Mangan will embark on the Going Somewhere Tour, in support of his 2023 Polaris Music Prize Shortlisted record, Being Somewhere, out now via Arts & Crafts. On the road Mangan will be accompanied by Gabrielle Shonk and Aysanabee, Full tour dates can be found below.

More About Being Somewhere

Being Somewhere, Mangan’s sixth studio album, cuts incisively but never forgets its underlying thesis: It’s cool to care. Mangan arms the rebels in the crusade for tenderness. The album is a combative plea for mercy from a manic world and its effects on the psyche. Whittling his sharpest pen to date, Being Somewhere is marked by Mangan’s singular wit and a respectful deference to the quagmire of existence.

“I wanted this album to feel like the inside crook of a familiar elbow on the nape of your neck, a comforting embrace” says Mangan, “These songs are tenderhearted and unfurl like an overdue conversation with a dear friend. They essentially lay out where we’re at, how I’m doing, and how I think I can help.”

571 emails. 100+ hours on the phone and thousands of text messages. A mere 3 days spent in-person together over two and a half years of long-distance work. Such a displaced recording process might make anyone question the concept of being anywhere at all, let alone being somewhere else.

This is how Dan Mangan and collaborator/producer Drew Brown (Radiohead, Beck) manifested Being Somewhere. All components were recorded in isolation and beamed up to the mothership. No piece of the puzzle ended up as expected, and each moment is the fruition of separate, yet conjoined, rabbit holes.

“The hard part was waiting,” Mangan says of the long-distance process, “sometimes it took six weeks to resolve an issue that could have taken twenty minutes had we been together in a room. But Drew’s dedication and talent cannot be understated, and this music doesn’t sound like anything else I’m hearing these days.”

Under the care of Drew Brown’s distinct touch, Being Somewhere forges sonics well beyond the tropes of modern folk music. Helming the project from Chicago, Brown sourced musical contributions from all over North America, the UK and Japan, including work from Joey Waronker (Beck, Atoms for Peace), Jason Falkner (Beck, St. Vincent), Thomas Bartlett (The National, Taylor Swift), Dave Okumu (Arlo Parks, Adele), Mary Lattimore (Kurt Vile, Sharon Van Etten), and Broken Social Scene frontman Kevin Drew.

More About Dan Mangan

Dan Mangan is a two-time JUNO Award-winning and two-time Polaris Music Prize-nominated musician and songwriter. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with his wife and two sons. Mangan has toured extensively in North America, Europe & Australia. He has played Glastonbury and Jimmy Kimmel Live, collaborated with David Grohl, sold out Massey Hall and scored acclaimed soundtracks for television (Netflix, AMC) and feature films. In 2017, he co-founded Side Door, a community marketplace platform for the arts that seeks to democratize and decentralize the entertainment industry by allowing non-traditional spaces to be venues. Watch for Mangan and his Side Door partner Laura Simpson to appear on CBC TV’s Dragon’s Den on November 3. Being Somewhere is his sixth studio album.

Tour Dates

Aug 12 – Windermere, ON – Theatre in the Woods / Muskoka Chautauqua
Aug 19 – Peterborough, ON – Peterborough Folk Festival
Aug 25 – Burnaby, BC – Deer Lake Park (supporting Vance Joy)
Sept 21 – Cumberland, BC – The Waverley *
Sept 22 – Nanaimo, BC – Port Theatre *
Sept 23 – Victoria, BC – Capital Ballroom *
Sept 25 – Vernon, BC – Vernon Performing Arts Centre *
Sept 27 – Lethbridge, AB – Yates Theatre *
Sept 28 – Red Deer, AB – Bo’s *
Sept 29 – Calgary, AB – Bella Concert Hall *
Sept 30 – Sherwood Park, AB – Festival Place Theatre *
Oct 1 – Sherwood Park, AB – Festival Place Theatre *
Oct 3 – Saskatoon, SK – Broadway Theatre *
Oct 4 – Regina, SK – Darke Hall *
Oct 5 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre *
Oct 18 – Burnstown, ON – Neat Cafe
Oct 19 – Kingston, ON – Grand Theatre ^
Oct 20 – Oshawa, ON – Biltmore Theatre ^
Oct 21 – Paris, ON – Paris Presbyterian Church ^
Oct 23 – Hamilton, ON – Bridgeworks ^
Oct 24 – London, ON – Aeolian Hall ^
Oct 26 – Richmond Hill, ON – Richmond Hill Centre For The Performing Arts ^
Oct 27 – Ottawa, ON – Bronson Centre ^
Oct 28 – Toronto, ON – Queen Elizabeth Theatre ^
Oct 29 – St. Catharines, ON – Partridge Hall – FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre ^
Nov 2 – Waterloo, ON – Maxwell’s ^
Nov 3 – Peterborough, ON – Market Hall Performing Arts Centre ^
Nov 4 – Montreal, QC – Le Studio TD ^
Nov 5 – Quebec City, QC – L’Anti Bar ^
Nov 7 – Moncton, NB – Capitol Theatre ^
Nov 9 – Fredericton, NB – Fredericton Playhouse ^
Nov 10 – Saint John, NB – Imperial Theatre ^
Nov 12 – Halifax, NS – Rebecca Cohn Auditorium ^
Nov 14 – St. John’s, NL – First Light Centre ^

* Gabrielle Shonk supporting
^ Aysanabee supporting

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