Lene Lovich
Show Date: Sunday, September 28, 2025
Show Time: 7:30pm
Doors Open: 6:00pm
Ticket Price: $25 - $40 plus applicable fees
Show Type: Adult Contemporary
Restrictions: All Ages
Lene Lovich, the Post-Punk/New Wave icon who could count John Lennon and Frank Zappa among her fans, is set to return to the United States for the first time in 18 years this fall. She will undertake her first full North American tour in 35 years, playing 25 shows across the country beginning in Des Moines on September 16th.
Lene toured America successfully many times during the 80s, and her band included Thomas Dolby on keyboards, with whom she co-wrote her biggest selling US single “New Toy”. Her third album, No Man’s Land, released in 1982, seemed poised to become her commercial breakthrough in America. Alas by then her relationship with Stiff had deteriorated. She released the album March in 1989 on the independent label Pathfinder Records, and toured America one more time, in 1990, subsequently retreating from the limelight to raise a family in rural England.
Sporadic collaborations and extremely rare live appearances was all that was seen of her for many years, until the release of the album Shadows and Dust in 2005. With her daughters now grown up, Lene returned to regular live performances in 2012 when she and guitarist Jude Rawlins formed the Lene Lovich Band to take her classic material back on the road. The band garnered huge acclaim across the UK and Europe, where they have toured consistently ever since. Finally, in 2025, America will get the chance to see what they’ve been missing for far too long, the iconic and unique Lene Lovich at full volume.