Devin Townsend has spent the pandemic year of 202 releasing a live album, creating a podcast, and performing charity livestreams. He recently did a by Livestream for Halloween, and in news he broke in an interview with Ghost Cult, Devy now confirmed in a Tweet his livestream will take place December 23rd. Check out his thread about the event and in case you missed it, our chat with the legend. Continue reading
Devin Townsend has announced a new live album based on his wildly successful quarantine charity livestream shows, and a new series of events too. The first new concert took place this past weekend in support of Vancouver’s General Hospital, selling close to 2000 tickets, and raising nearly 50,000 dollars. Devin has put together an impressive 4-camera rig for these streams, controlled using nothing more than an Xbox controller. You can watch a recording below. The second will be in support of the NHS in the UK, and the third will be in support of hotspot hospitals in New York. Shows will last around 50 minutes, with different setlists each time. The top donors for each show will receive signed merchandise from Omerch, album goodies from InsideOut as well as several high-end products from a number of Devin’s gear companies such as Mooer, Fractal, Toontrack, Dunlop and |Fishman to name a few. All ticket buyers will also receive a (somewhat tidied-up) remixed version of the show’s audio recording. Devy will also release Order Of Magnitude – Empath Live Volume 1 on October 23, a document of his winter 2019 European tour that saw him taking on possibly his most ambitious live show to date. Continue reading
Progressive Rock genius Devin Townsend will host a livestream concert on September 5th: ‘Empath Volume 2: By Request’. Devy will run through the set he was due to perform at this year’s edition of United Kingdom’s Bloodstock Open Air festival. Townsend will be joined by drummer Samus Paulicelli, guitarist Wes Hauch and bassist Liam Wilson. Townsend explains: