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Self Esteem announces the limited West End season A Complicated Woman Live this April
28 January 2025
Self Esteem AKA Rebecca Lucy Taylor today announces A Complicated Woman Live - a unique and theatrical presentation of her forthcoming new album at the intimate Duke Of York’s Theatre in London for a strictly limited and unmissable season this April.
Created by Rebecca Lucy Taylor and Tony award-winning Designer Tom Scutt, who also directs here, A Complicated Woman Live is an ambitious quasi-theatrical experience that harnesses the power and energy of a gig but presents it through a theatrical format. Fans pre-ordering the album before 10am on 3 February will be eligible for a limited pre-sale of tickets; tickets for all shows go on general sale at 10am on 5 February.
A Complicated Woman Live performance dates
Wednesday 16th April - 7.30pm
Thursday 17th April - 7.30pm
Friday 18th April - 7.30pm
Saturday 19th April - 3pm
Saturday 19th April - 7.30pm
Created by Rebecca Lucy Taylor & Tom Scutt
Self Esteem will release her eagerly anticipated new album A Complicated Woman on 25 April in digital, CD, cassette and vinyl formats - including limited editions - via Polydor Records. The album is the follow up to the hugely acclaimed BRIT and Mercury Prize-nominated 2021 album Prioritise Pleasure - an album of the year everywhere from the Guardian to the Sunday Times.
Described by the Guardian as “her best yet”, A Complicated Woman contains all Taylor’s musical thumbprints – complex thought processes unfolding in real time, an effortless knack of exposing the feelings women are required to labour under – but set on a larger, brighter landscape that is nothing short of exhilarating. Running through the album is a jubilant choir constructed of dozens and dozens of mostly female voices - “a community of people. I want you to hear and feel the connection” - including close friends, her band and collaborators, that includes - but is not limited to - singer-songwriters Nadine Shah, Moonchild Sanelly and Sue Tompkins from Life Without Buildings; a personal hero, the drag queen Meatball and a bona fide Lancaster legend, the actress Julie Hesmondhalgh.
A Complicated Woman is about taking control of your life, summed up in the astonishing first single ‘Focus Is Power’. Inspired by words Taylor wrote on a sticker, working from her mum and dad’s shed in the pandemic - “You see, it wasn’t up to me but now it could be / But now I see it clear with every passing of each year / I deserve to be here…” - the lyrics become an incantation when shared between the choir, something the accompanying music video (shot by long time collaborator Piers Dennis) echoes in its community hall performance.
A Complicated Woman tracklisting
1.? ?I Do And I Don’t Care
2.? ?Focus Is Power
3.? ?Mother
4.? ?The Curse
5.? ?Logic, Bitch! ft Sue Tompkins
6.? ?Cheers To Me
7.? ?If Not Now, It’s Soon
8.? ?In Plain Sight ft Moonchild Sanelly
9.? ?Lies ft Nadine Shah
10.? ?69
11.? ?What Now
12.? ?The Deep Blue Okay
Created by Rebecca Lucy Taylor and Tony award-winning Designer Tom Scutt, who also directs here, A Complicated Woman Live is an ambitious quasi-theatrical experience that harnesses the power and energy of a gig but presents it through a theatrical format. Fans pre-ordering the album before 10am on 3 February will be eligible for a limited pre-sale of tickets; tickets for all shows go on general sale at 10am on 5 February.
Wednesday 16th April - 7.30pm
Thursday 17th April - 7.30pm
Friday 18th April - 7.30pm
Saturday 19th April - 3pm
Saturday 19th April - 7.30pm
Created by Rebecca Lucy Taylor & Tom Scutt
Self Esteem will release her eagerly anticipated new album A Complicated Woman on 25 April in digital, CD, cassette and vinyl formats - including limited editions - via Polydor Records. The album is the follow up to the hugely acclaimed BRIT and Mercury Prize-nominated 2021 album Prioritise Pleasure - an album of the year everywhere from the Guardian to the Sunday Times.
Described by the Guardian as “her best yet”, A Complicated Woman contains all Taylor’s musical thumbprints – complex thought processes unfolding in real time, an effortless knack of exposing the feelings women are required to labour under – but set on a larger, brighter landscape that is nothing short of exhilarating. Running through the album is a jubilant choir constructed of dozens and dozens of mostly female voices - “a community of people. I want you to hear and feel the connection” - including close friends, her band and collaborators, that includes - but is not limited to - singer-songwriters Nadine Shah, Moonchild Sanelly and Sue Tompkins from Life Without Buildings; a personal hero, the drag queen Meatball and a bona fide Lancaster legend, the actress Julie Hesmondhalgh.
A Complicated Woman is about taking control of your life, summed up in the astonishing first single ‘Focus Is Power’. Inspired by words Taylor wrote on a sticker, working from her mum and dad’s shed in the pandemic - “You see, it wasn’t up to me but now it could be / But now I see it clear with every passing of each year / I deserve to be here…” - the lyrics become an incantation when shared between the choir, something the accompanying music video (shot by long time collaborator Piers Dennis) echoes in its community hall performance.
A Complicated Woman tracklisting
1.? ?I Do And I Don’t Care
2.? ?Focus Is Power
3.? ?Mother
4.? ?The Curse
5.? ?Logic, Bitch! ft Sue Tompkins
6.? ?Cheers To Me
7.? ?If Not Now, It’s Soon
8.? ?In Plain Sight ft Moonchild Sanelly
9.? ?Lies ft Nadine Shah
10.? ?69
11.? ?What Now
