This event is 21 and over.
$29.50 – General Admission (Advance)
$35.00 – General Admission (Door)
*plus applicable service fees
Geographer and Donny Benét will headline at The Independent on Friday, August 11, 2023. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Cobra Man is no longer on the bill.
All tickets purchased will be honored.
Please check our website, theindependentsf.com, for updates on the status of this show. For any questions, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We thank you for your understanding and we look forward to seeing you at the show!
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Donny Benét
“Jeffrey Lebowski, it is “The Dude”, Donny Benét, it is “The Don”. Quite simply.”
Praised and panned by critics as “Prince on a serious budget cut”, Donny Benét is best described as the favorite nephew to Uncles Giorgio Moroder, Alan Vega and Michael McDonald.
Hailing from Australia, Benét’s debut album Don’t Hold Back confused and intrigued many whilst quickly establishing him as a cult figure in the Australian music scene. Donny’s piece de resistance The Don, which featured the breakthrough single Konichi-wa, facilitated his first invitation to tour Europe in 2018. In no time at all Europe had caught a fever that only Donny could quell each time he returned to perform. America’s first taste of The Don came in 2019 with Donny supporting Mac DeMarco. Returning in early 2020 for his first sold out headline tour, Donny’s acclaimed album Mr Experience was released soon after. 2022 saw the release of Le Piano alongside another successful North American tour.
A perfectionist, Benét writes, performs and records entirely by himself at the renowned Donnyland Studios. Vintage synthesizers and drum machines are used exclusively by Donny when presenting his hot takes on life, love and relationships. A masterful bassist, his songs are instantly recognised by their signature basslines, which guarantee to get you up and keep you on the dance floor.
Touring Europe and the US since 2018, Donny regularly sells out headline shows and has performed at festivals such as Pukkelpop, Green Man Festival, Rock Werchter, Down the Rabbit Hole, Pohoda Festival, Zomerparkfeest and Rock For Churchill to name a few.
When you need the one who will deliver it – you know you’ve got to call…“Mr Experience”
Geographer
Part social scientist, part troubadour, if Geographer is an expert at anything, it’s precisely chronicling life’s imperfections. Over a decade, Geographer frontman Mike Deni released three full-length albums that levitated through the unbearable lightness of being. The Animal Shapes EP put Geographer on the map and launched his career. Since then, he has played Outside Lands, Firefly, and more and performed with such musical luminaries as The Flaming Lips, Young The Giant, Tycho, Ratatat, Betty Who, and Tokyo Police Club. His latest LP, Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights (out November 12, 2021), however, brings Geographer back down to terra firma, confronting the all-too-human realities around us.
The gravitation back to Earth started when he moved from SF to LA in Summer 2018. “I hit a ceiling in San Francisco. Everything feels possible here. That’s the vibe of LA: You’ve made it to paradise. You should be really happy…and then nobody is. There’s a lot of darkness — you have to sift through everything to find your own path.” says Deni. While recording his album, engineer Jules de Gasperis showed him an image of the famed, 15th-century triptych painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” depicting alternate realities of paradise, hell, and reality. “It’s like, why are we all so bummed out? We are all miserable. And we’re in paradise.” And thus, Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights — recorded between Spring and Winter of 2019 — was born.