{"id":231391,"date":"2026-01-13T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231391\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:53:08","slug":"life-without-buildings-announce-first-show-in-24-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231391\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Without Buildings Announce First Show in 24 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-four years after Life Without Buildings<\/a> called it quits, the art rockers will reunite for the 50th anniversary of Rough Trade\u2019s London store. The show takes place November 20 at the London venue KOKO.<\/p>\n

\u201ccat’s oot the bag then!,\u201d wrote<\/a> Robert Dallas Gray on BlueSky, confirming the reunion set. The guitarist added the Glaswegian quartet \u201cdecided the 50th anniversary of Rough Trade was an appropriate time to get back together … been a strange ride remembering the songs!\u201d He also promised there will be \u201cat least\u201d one warm-up show, likely in Glasgow, with \u201cpossibly more\u201d to come.<\/p>\n

Formed in 1999 by fellow Glasgow School of Art students Gray, Will Bradley, and Chris Evans, Life Without Buildings began as an all-instrumental outfit before recruiting vocalist Sue Tompkins to join. The band released its lone studio album, 2001\u2019s Any Other City<\/a>, on Rough Trade Records, and broke up a year later. In October, the members announced<\/a> an official release of their final song, \u201cLove Trinity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-four years after Life Without Buildings called it quits, the art rockers will reunite for the 50th anniversary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,137551,111,43,139,69,1249,1251],"class_list":{"0":"post-231391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-life-without-buildings","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-textaboveleftsmall","20":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}