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Le parcours fulgurant de DEHD continue de se tracer : après Rock en Seine en 2022 puis La Maroquinerie en 2024 (en upgrade de La Boule Noire), c’est au tour du Trabendo d’accueillir le trio de rock alternatif de Chicago à Paris, le 20 mars 2025 !

Après avoir pris leur envol avec leur album “Flower of Devotion”, suivi du brillant “Blue Skies”, Dehd ont fait quelque chose de différent. Ils ont transformé une session d’écriture en un road trip. Ce sens infatigable de l’aventure est devenu une marque de fabrique pour Dehd au fil des années. Personne n’écrit sur l’amour tout à fait comme eux, et sur leur cinquième album “Poetry” ils rendent même les cœurs brisés et les ruptures attrayants. L’album représente un voyage aussi vaste et nuancé que le paysage américain que le trio d’indie rock a parcouru pour l’écrire. Les derniers mots de l’album viennent de manière très juste sous la forme d’une question, parce que comme Dehd voudraient que nous le voyions, nous avons le choix : jouer en toute sécurité ou tout risquer et vivre la vie comme la poésie. Les cigarettes brûlent au clair de lune. Les colliers frappent contre les bustes nus. Et sur cet album, Dehd nous transportent dans un monde imprégné d’images. C’est un monde peint dans les tons d’un romantique coucher de soleil en été et de vieilles flammes vacillantes.

Les mineurs doivent être accompagnés d'un adulte.

AEG Presents France

Gigs

Paris

Trabendo

This is an 18+ event

Patterns

Brighton

Dehd’s fifth album, Poetry, is a vivid exploration of love, heartbreak, and personal reflection, steeped in evocative imagery. The trio—Jason Balla, Emily Kempf, and Eric McGrady—craft a world filled with summer romances, flickering old flames, and intimate moments that capture the highs and lows of emotional relationships

Following the success of Flower of Devotion and Blue Skies, Dehd took an adventurous approach to writing Poetry, embarking on a road trip through New Mexico and the Puget Sound. Isolated in nature, they focused intensely on writing, producing some of their most honest and vulnerable work. For the first time, they collaborated with outside producer Ziyad Asrar (of Whitney), who helped expand the emotional depth of the album

The album beautifully balances the excitement of new love and the pain of breakups, often within the same song. On Light On, Balla reflects on jealousy and self-sabotage, while Kempf confronts her feelings for another woman on Pure Gold, celebrating liberated love. Optimism permeates tracks like Dog Days, where Balla sings, Everyone I know is bleeding, but I know we’ll be alright, a testament to the band’s hopeful outlook

Poetry concludes with the powerful breakup anthem Forget, leaving listeners with a sense of introspection. Ultimately, the album embraces life’s messiness, encouraging listeners to take risks and live boldly. It solidifies Dehd’s place as a band that finds beauty even in heartbreak

Poetry is on Fat Possum Records.

Psychedelia

Southampton

Papillon

This event will take place in EartH Hall.

On their triumphant fifth album Poetry, Chicago indie-rock trio Dehd transport us to a world steeped in imagery, painted in the sunset tones of summer romance and flickering old flames, throwing themselves against the question of what it means to hope.

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DEHD

London

Cigarettes burn in the moonlight. Necklaces bang against bare chests. And on their triumphant fifth album Poetry, Dehd transports us to a world steeped in imagery. It’s a world painted in the sunset tones of summer romance and flickering old flames. It’s motorcycle chrome (“Mood Ring”), it’s fake Gucci Sunglasses (“Dog Days”), and it’s shaking hands before a swaying lover (“Hard to Love”). Across fourteen songs, the trio–Jason Balla, Emily Kempf, and Eric McGrady–throw themselves against the question of what it means to hope, knowing all too well that things end and hearts can break. “You can’t beat death, but you can beat death in life,” wrote Charles Bukowski and upon listening to this album it’s obvious the band has chosen to attempt the latter.

The album Poetry represents a journey as vast and nuanced as the American landscape Dehd traveled to write it. It culminates on the scorching closer “Forget,” a breakup song transformed into mantra. “How could I forget?” Balla laments as distorted guitars burn like the last embers of the day. It’s fitting that the final words of the album come in the form of a question, because as Dehd would have us see it, we have a choice: to play it safe or to risk it all and live life like Poetry.

Poetry is out May 10th on Fat Possum Records.

This is a 14+ event (under 18s must be accompanied by a 21+ adult, 1:1 ratio)

Gravy Train

Dehd + Mass Text

Dehd - Dog Days

Bristol

Strange Brew

This is an 18+ event.

Now Wave

Manchester

YES The Pink Room

Cigarettes burn in the moonlight. Necklaces bang against bare chests. And on their triumphant fifth album Poetry, Dehd transports us to a world steeped in imagery. It’s a world painted in the sunset tones of summer romance and flickering old flames. It’s motorcycle chrome (“Mood Ring”), it’s fake Gucci Sunglasses (“Dog Days”), and it’s shaking hands before a swaying lover (“Hard to Love”). Across fourteen songs, the trio–Jason Balla, Emily Kempf, and Eric McGrady–throw themselves against the question of what it means to hope, knowing all too well that things end and hearts can break. “You can’t beat death, but you can beat death in life,” wrote Charles Bukowski and upon listening to this album it’s obvious the band has chosen to attempt the latter.

After hitting a stride with their 2020 breakout record Flower of Devotion, followed by their radiant Fat Possum debut Blue Skies in 2022, Dehd did something different. They turned a writing session into a road trip. With a van full of recording equipment they headed to Kempf’s off-grid Earthship in New Mexico where they chopped wood to keep warm and worked for as long as the solar panels held a charge. They then traveled north to a borrowed cabin surrounded by the chilly waters of the Puget Sound, where the hours were marked only by the movement of the tide. And it seems in this place of quiet focus Dehd have achieved their most honest and vulnerable writing yet.

This is an 14+ event

Regular Music

Glasgow

Oran Mor

DEHD returns to Cleveland on Thursday May 1st 2025!

Special Guests TBA

Doors @ 7:00pm

Show @ 8:00pm

\*\*Dehd has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to supporting organizations working for equity, access, and dignity for all. www.plus1.org

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