Overview
- Lost Weekend, which was released on Friday, Aug. 14, is Bridgers’s third solo album and was rolled out with phone-free listening events and intimate shows to promote communal listening.
- She recorded a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge session in London that aired on Wednesday and included performances of the album tracks “Lost Boys” and “Bobby” plus a hushed acoustic cover of Nirvana’s “Lithium.”
- Bridgers posted on Instagram that she developed appendicitis and that this week’s UK intimate dates would be moved, prompting the Live Lounge footage to become the main available live material for fans.
- Because Bridgers has banned phones at recent shows, the Live Lounge videos are the first widely circulating public performance footage of the fan-favorite track “Bobby.”
- The session ties into Bridgers’s ongoing engagement with Nirvana touchpoints from prior boygenius moments and arrives as she prepares to return for a fall arena run that includes two sold-out O2 shows in London on Dec. 1–2.