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Victoria Canal Celebrates Queer Exploration On New Single “California Sober”

Victoria Canal Celebrates Queer Exploration On New Single “California Sober”

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Fall 2024 Us Headline Tour Announced Following Surprise Performance With Coldplay At Glastonbury

 

July 26, 2024: Today, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Victoria Canal new single “California Sober” via Parlophone Records. “California Sober” follows the fun flirty innocence of recent single “June Baby,” and as day turns to night, the song’s Cuban-inflected sizzle sees things heat up into a heated fog of sensual queer liberation. A dizzying swell of exotic strings transport us to a sweaty house party, dancing body-to-body. “I’m hopped up on the feeling of romance, and I'm more in my body than I've ever been,” Canal says. 

Listen to "California Sober" here

“‘California Sober’ is the sexual awakening moment,” says Canal. “With ‘June Baby’ we experienced the naïveté of a first-time, heteronormative love…this tune is the opening up to the beauty of queer exploration. It’s also my deeply shameless pop banger.”

The release of “California Sober” and “June Baby” mark a new chapter of releases for Canal, embracing a confident, bolder and wider-ranging musicality with more expected to follow. “June Baby” was written across London and LA with The 1975’s Ross MacDonald, complete with production flourishes by bandmate George Daniel, complete with a sweet music video filmed in Barcelona. Watch the “June Baby” music video here

Following her second IVOR win earlier this Summer and a surprise appearance with Coldplay during their Glastonbury Festival headline performance, Canal announced a worldwide headline tour, spanning the UK, Europe and North America. The “Just What I Needed” tour kicks off September 16 in Milwaukee, WI, for a three week run, before heading overseas for performances in Barcelona, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, London and more. Please see a full list of tour dates below and visit https://www.victoriacanal.com/tour for tickets. 

Caption: Canal poses backstage at Glastonbury 2024.

Photo credit: Tom Jackson

 

Caption: Canal and Michael J. Fox backstage at Glastonbury.

Photo credit: Anna Lee

 

About Victoria Canal:

25-year-old Spanish-American singer, songwriter and producer Victoria Canal makes soul-stirring, emotive pop music. Canal says her international upbringing fostered her love for a nomadic life in music. A proud “third culture kid,” she has lived everywhere from Shanghai, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, and Dubai to Atlanta, New York, and Forth Worth, and takes pride in her identity as a queer, disabled, mixed-heritage woman.

Canal is the recipient of two Ivor Novello Awards, recognising her songwriting talent, an Attitude Pride award and an Imagen Award nomination for her television acting debut in acclaimed Apple TV+ anthology series Little America.

In 2022 Canal released her EP Elegy, which delicately dealt with themes of grief and death, and featured the single “swan song,” which Chris Martin of Coldplay hailed as ‘one of the best songs ever written’ and was performed live on Later… with Jools Holland, appearing alongside the likes of Self Esteem and The 1975.

Her Ivor Novello Award winning sister song ‘Black Swan’ features on her 2023 EP WELL WELL, which found Canal turning the lens back on herself to look inwards with courage and vulnerability. The singles “Shape” and “She Walks In” were the first time she’d shared on the themes of body image and body dysmorphia, pertaining in part to her limb difference.

Years in the making, Canal has been busy writing and recording her debut album, pushing her sonic boundaries to create her most wide reaching and expressive music to date. Canal has toured worldwide and is set to play her biggest run of headline shows in late 2024.

 

Victoria Canal 2024 Live Dates

August 17 - Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival

September 7 - Munich, Germany - Superbloom Festival

September 16 - Milwaukee, WI - Vivarium

September 17 - Evanston, IL, Space

September 19 - Columbus, OH - The Basement

September 21 - Richmond, VA - Iron Blossom Festival 

September 23 - Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle 

September 24 - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl 

September 25 - Nashville, TN - 3rd and Lindsley 

September 27 - Lake Orion, MI - 20 Front Street 

September 29 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern

September 30 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE * 

October 2 - Madison, WI - Sylvee * 

October 3 - St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre * 

October 4 - Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom *

October 9 - Barcelona, Spain - La Nau

October 10 - Madrid, Spain - Conde Duque 

October 12 - Lisbon, Portugal - Musicbox Lisboa 

October 13 - Porto, Portugal - Porto Mouco

October 19 - Manchester, UK - The Deaf Institute 

October 21 - Birmingham, UK - O2 Institute 3 

October 24 - London, UK - EartH Theatre 

October 26 - Bristol, UK - Strange Brew 

October 28 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Tolhuistuin

October 31 - Brussels, Belgium - AB Club 

November 2 - Cologne, Germany - Yuca 

November 3 - Berlin, Germany - Frannz Club

November 5 -  Hamburg, Germany - Nochtspeicher 

November 9 -  La Roche sur Yon, France - Le Quai M

November 10 - Bordeaux, France - Le Rocher De Palmer 

November 12 - Paris, France - La Boule Noire

November 13 - Lille, France - La Bulle Café

November 14 - Rouen, France - Le 106

November 17 - Mexico City, MX - Corona Capital

* Supporting Sammy Rae & Friends

 

Recent Praise for Victoria Canal

“Canal’s ascendant career is built on her ability to unflinchingly capture feelings… she seems on the brink of something bigger.” - The New Yorker

 

“Perceptive, unflinching songs… as the world wakes up to her many talents.” - The Observer

 

"Her piano playing is mesmerising." - The Times

 

“Her gentle and ruminative form of songwriting is finally getting the recognition it deserves.” - i-D

 

“A tender blend of goosebump-inducing balladry akin to the kind of cataclysmic intensity of artists like Phoebe Bridgers or Holly Humberstone." - NME

 

“Beautiful.” - Attitude Magazine, Pride Icon Award winner

 

“WELL WELL represents her at her most vulnerable and her most brave.” - Gay Times

 

 

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