Phoebe Bridgers to play first solo show since 2023 tonight in New Mexico
The wait is over: Phoebe Bridgers will play her first solo show in three years on May 9th at a small club in New Mexico.
A social media user first spotted a printed flyer advertising the event in the local area; the performance does still not appear on the club’s site, nor Bridgers’ own.
The Liberty in Roswell has a capacity of 400-people; in comparison, her last solo show was at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium in Spring 2023, which boasts a capacity of 82,500, for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.
From there, Bridgers continued in the supergroup Boy Genius, alongside Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker; they finished with a pair of acoustic shows in February 2024 at the Smell in Los Angeles. It was there that they announced their hiatus.
While Baker teamed up with Torres for a country album, and Dacus released a new solo album, Bridgers has stayed squarely out of the limelight.
Fans are hoping that she might follow up on her most recent solo project, 2020’s Punisher.
In a four-star review of the project, Far Out observed, “Punisher shows that despite having written songs since the age of eleven we’ve only just scratched the surface of who Bridgers truly is, and perhaps more excitingly, the talent she possesses.”
However, the world wasn’t privy to the rest of her talent as the ‘Smoke Signals’ singer removed herself from the centre of the storm.
In January 2023, she hinted to Rolling Stone why this might’ve been the case, citing a personal struggle with fame: “Keeping interiority while sharing so much of yourself with the world is hard,” she admitted.
At the time, Bridgers added, “If I was going on a solo-album campaign right now, I wouldn’t. I’d need a break.”
It seems her self-imposed break from the industry might finally be over.
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