Barenaked Ladies - Last Summer on Earth

Chart-topping Canadian rock band the Barenaked Ladies will perform live at Tanglewood with guests Sugar Ray and Fastball. Ed Robertson: guitar, vocals Jim Creeggan: bass, vocals Kevin Hearn: keyboards, guitar, vocals Tyler Stewart: drums, vocals While BNL's last album, 2021's Detour de Force, looked closely at the perils of contemporary, alternate reality media, In Flight offers a sense of joy and appreciation, exemplified in the first single, "Lovin' Life," in which they unironically sing "We're lovin' life/We love it so much that we wanna live it twice/We're lovin' life/We take it high, we take it low/We ride that rollercoaster anywhere it goes." (Robertson wrote the song with Better Than Ezra's Kevin Griffin and Steve Aiello of Thirty Second to Mars; elsewhere on the album, he co-wrote "I Am Asking You" with Donovan Woods). Get tickets » "It's very easy to get overwhelmed by the firehose of bad news that we're all pretty tuned into, and it is real," says Robertson. "But I think it's really important to remember to still be grateful. I guess I'm just trying to take in the negativity that surrounds us and learn about it and grow from it. ‘Lovin' Life' is about experiencing the positivity, because that's there, too." According to the Canadian Rock Hall of Fame , Formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, the chart-topping Barenaked Ladies have been making music for three decades and have sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. The band's style has evolved significantly over the course of their career, favouring acoustic in the early days and growing to encompass a mixture of genres. The 1991 release of The Yellow Tape, initially meant as a demo cassette, would go on to become the first independent tape to ever achieve platinum status, with over 100,000 copies sold in Canada. Following multiple indie cassette releases, the band signed to Sire Records, with whom they released their first full album entitled Gordon. Gordon was a cultural phenomenon in Canada and was certified Diamond (selling over 1 million records). Stunt, released in 1998, would become the band's most commercially successful record, climbing all the way to No.3 on the Billboard album chart, anchored by the smash hit "One Week," which peaked at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The band has seen incredible success over their lengthy career with international tours including performances at Madison Square Garden, The Royal Albert Hall and Wembley. Known for such hits as "Pinch Me," "It's All Been Done," "Brian Wilson," "If I Had $1,000,000," "Jane," "Odds Are" and many more, the band also penned the theme song for the hit CBS series, The Big Bang Theory. In 2013 Barenaked Ladies collaborated with Commander Chris Hadfield on the song "I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)," recorded while the Canadian astronaut was in orbit in the International Space Station. Later that year their 10th studio release, Grinning Streak, debuted at #10 on the Billboard Top 200 followed by 2015's Silverball and most recently FAKE NUDES, lauded as one of their most dynamic albums to date. Praised not only for their palpable on-stage chemistry, camaraderie and characteristic improv style, Barenaked Ladies have been recognized for their ongoing philanthropic initiatives. The band was a founding member of Barenaked Planet - Powered by Reverb in 2004 and have since "greened" every tour date, offsetting over 300 metric tonnes of carbon. Barenaked Ladies have also donated their time and effort to Free the Children/WEday, ABC Life Literacy Canada, David Suzuki Foundation - The Blue Dot Tour, and Camp Oochiegeas.