Everything But The Girl Plot First Concerts In 25 Years

Beloved U.K. duo Everything But the Girl stunned fans this morning (March 13) by announcing April 6-7 concerts at the 300-capacity MOTH Club in London, which will be their first proper live gigs since 2000. Married couple Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt made tickets available only to U.K.-based members of their mailing list, and they sold out instantly.

Performing live has traditionally been difficult for the stage right-prone Thorn, but she now says, “when we pictured how [they might play live], we realized we just wanted to play a few songs — including some we’d never done before — in a small club. Front room, friends and family vibe. If the shows go well, we intend to do more.”

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Watt says the inspiration came from sessions for the 2023 album Fuse, which he and Thorn “loved making together. We wanted to do something else, And that slowly turned into a conversation about playing live again.”

At the London gigs, the duo will be accompanied by double bassist Rex Horan. “No club bangers, no huge arena, just a chilled folk-tronic vibe,” reads a message on EBTG’s web site. “Two sets with an interval. Songs from both their solo and duo years.”

Thorn has made some public appearances in recent years in support of her second book, Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia, which chronicles her upbringing in Hertfordshire about 30 miles north of London.

Everything But the Girl is best known for their 1994 single “Missing,” which rocketed to international visibility the following year after it was remixed by Todd Terry. The song eventually reached No. 1 on the U.K. Dance Chat and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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