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4AD · 13 November 2026
“Live at the Barbican” captures the show Kim Deal played on 1 March 2025 in the Barbican Hall in London, with a hand-picked ensemble. It was a one-off, billed by the venue as a presentation of her debut solo album, “Nobody Loves You More”, released by 4AD on 22 November 2024. The live album came out on 13 November, again on 4AD: eighteen songs and just over an hour of music.
At the Barbican, Deal, on vocals and guitar, had a five-piece band, nine strings, four horns and a choir behind her. According to the programme listing, the band was Mando Lopez on bass, Susan Voelz on violin, Lindsay Glover on drums, Nick White on keys and Rob Bochnik on guitar; a nine-piece string section and four horns, with Terry Edwards as musical director on flute and trumpet; and the Shards choir, led by Kieran Brunt, with four singers.
The set opens with the studio album’s first three songs, “Nobody Loves You More”, “Coast” and “Crystal Breath”, and includes ten of its eleven tracks: only “Bats In The Afternoon Sky” is left out. There’s also room for “Walking with a Killer”, “Beautiful Moon” and “Biker Gone”, released as singles between 2012 and 2014, and the show closes with “Do You Love Me Now?”.
Text by Marçal Bonastre