{"id":7251,"date":"2025-12-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bright-eyes-2005-albums-shows\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:00:00","slug":"bright-eyes-2005-albums-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/bright-eyes-2005-albums-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Eyes Performing Twin 2005 LPs On Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/12\/Bright-Eyes-credit-Autumn-de-Wilde-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1790\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>(photo: Autumn de Wilde)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bright Eyes will play their twin 2005 albums <em>I\u2019m Wide Awake, It\u2019s Morning<\/em> and <em>Digital Ash in a Digital Urn<\/em> in their entirety at three special shows next summer \u2014 their first to celebrate their back catalog in this fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The events will take place May 6 at Red Rocks outside Denver, May 23 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and June 6 at Forest Hills Stadium outside New York. Tilly and the Wall, the Moldy Peaches and Built To Spill will each open one show. <a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbrighteyes.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets<\/a> go on sale Friday (Dec. 12).<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/bright-eyes-new-ep\/\">Bright Eyes Are Back At The \u2018Table\u2019 On New EP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/04\/modest-mouse-cruise\/\">Modest Mouse Will \u2018Float On\u2019 At Their Own Cruise<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2024\/09\/bright-eyes-cancel-2024-tour\/\">Bright Eyes Cancel 2024 Tour Due To Conor Oberst Vocal Issues<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The folk rock-driven <em>Wide Awake<\/em> and the techno\/pop detour <em>Digital Ash<\/em> were both released on Jan. 25, 2005, by Nebraska-based Saddle Creek and presented two very different windows into the Conor Oberst-led group\u2019s sound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think\u00a0<em>Digital Ash\u00a0<\/em>is about the fear of death,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2018\/01\/the-only-living-boy-in-new-york-our-february-2005-conor-oberst-story\/\">told SPIN<\/a> at the time. \u201cI feel like with the Internet there\u2019s the idea that you can have all the world\u2019s information \u2014 every piece of art, every library, every blueprint, everything. Its essence exists, but it doesn\u2019t have any substance. It\u2019s not like this [<em>touches the table in front of him<\/em>]. I don\u2019t understand mainframes and shit like that very well, but it\u2019s not tangible and I find that amazing. I see that in the context of our bodies and love and music and souls or whatever. There\u2019s energy that\u2019s very real but has no physical form, and I like to think about that. These things are gonna fall apart \u2014 these things that we walk around in \u2014 and I don\u2019t really know what I think about the afterlife, but I do think that things can continue beyond their physical being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for <em>I\u2019m Wide Awake<\/em>, he reported, \u201cI guess the main idea for the song and [album title] was that you\u2019ve gone through this supposedly long night and the sun\u2019s up, but it\u2019s not necessarily hopeful, like everything\u2019s gonna be okay now. It\u2019s more like, it\u2019s gonna be a crazy busy day, and it\u2019s a rallying call to get your head on straight; pay attention, you\u2019re gonna have to focus because everything\u2019s gonna happen really fast and you\u2019re gonna have to be on point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the albums now, Oberst explains, \u201cI have always hated my birthdays but I love parties. And I remember being really excited when I turned 21 for obvious reasons. So when the idea came up to celebrate the 21st anniversary of these two records who were born on the same day, Nate [Walcott], Mike [Mogis] and I took a long look in our full length mirror and finally said, fuck it, why not? So, we hope you can join us at one of these shows. It will be the three of us and many old friends coming together to make what will hopefully be this magical thing happen. Hope to see you there. We are really excited. Love and light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo: Autumn de Wilde) Bright Eyes will play their twin 2005 albums I\u2019m Wide Awake, It\u2019s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn in their entirety at three special&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3485,4705,3486,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bright-eyes","category-built-to-spill","category-conor-oberst","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}