Jules Buckley will mark his 25th BBC Prom with a one-night collaboration featuring St. Vincent at the Royal Albert Hall on 3rd September, reimagining her catalogue with a full orchestra.
Fresh from winning three Grammys in 2025, St. Vincent will make her Proms debut following artists including Stormzy, Florence + The Machine, Quincy Jones, Moses Sumney and Arooj Aftab.
“St. Vincent is an artist that I’ve loved and admired for a long time. Annie’s records all have songs that grab you the first time you hear them. It would be difficult not to fall in love with a song like Slow Disco – it’s such a well written, well performed and well produced track. But for me, feeling the mastery and imagination in her work means something deeper. It takes you on a journey. She’s incredibly bold as an artist, and she’s completely uncompromising.”
“The concept here is not just to slap an orchestral wallpaper behind an artist,” says Buckley. “We’ve worked together to find a new interpretation of St. Vincent’s sound. Annie and her keys player, Rachel, have toured as a duo, so that’s been an inspiration for how to reimagine some of the pieces with a larger ensemble. And Annie’s an amazing guitarist. If you hear a track like Now Now from her debut record—we’ve kept a lot of that in there, but we’ll be expanding into new realms at the same time, to create something really unique.”
According to Buckley, the programme draws from across St. Vincent’s catalogue and will be structured as a dramatic arc. “We’ve looked at it like I’m creating a theatrical plot, with Annie and Rachel as the two main actors, because the pieces have such strong imagery,” Buckley explains. “It’s going to be pretty dark and shocking at times, and intimate at others. I want people to feel shocked, and to leave the gig wanting to see it again, even though we’ll never do it .”
The dates read:
SEPTEMBER
3 Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
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