Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2 Shows)

LPR Presents & Pioneer Works welcome legendary Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor to the Pioneer Works' Main Hall on Wednesday, June 25th and Thursday, June 26th, 2025.

PLEASE NOTE: The shows that were originally planned for November 20-21, 2024 have been rescheduled for June 25-26, 2025.

If you originally purchased tickets for November 20th your tickets will transfer to the June 25th concert date. All tickets holders for the November 21st show will have their tickets transferred to the June 26th concert date.

If you have a ticket and are unable to attend the new dates, refunds will be processed until January 31, 2025. Please email info@pioneerworks.org with any questions, concerns or refund requests.

About the artists

Godspeed You! Black Emperor released a string of albums from 1997-2002 widely recognized as redefining what protest music can be, where longform instrumental chamber rock compositions of immense feeling and power serve as soundtracks to late capitalist alienation and resistance. The band’s first four releases—especially F#A#∞ (1997) and Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)—are variously regarded as classics of the era and genre. Godspeed's legendary live performances, featuring multiple 16mm projectors beaming a collage of overlapping analog film loops and reels—along with the distinctive iconography, imagery and tactility of the band's album artwork and physical LP packages— further defines the sui generis aesthetic substance, ethos and mythos of this group. GY!BE has issued two official band photos in its 25-year existence (the second, below, a 2010 recreation of the first from 1997) and has done a half-dozen collectively-answered written interviews over that same span. The band has never had a website or social media accounts. It has never made a video. Few rock bands in our 21st century have been as steadfast in trying to let the work speak for itself and maintaining simple rules about minimizing participation in cultures of personality, exposure, access, commodification or co-optation.

Following a seven-year hiatus that began in 2003, Godspeed returned to the stage in December 2010 (curating the UK festival All Tomorrow’s Parties) and the band’s post-reunion period has now lasted over a decade, marked by hundreds of sold-out live shows and three additional albums, all of which have been met with high acclaim.

Pioneer Works music programming is made possible in-part by New Belgium Brewing Company.