Belle and Sebastian Headline 2015 Next@Wex Fest

Columbus, OH—Just announced: indie rock icons Belle and Sebastian will headline this year’s Next@Wex Fest, presented by PromoWest Productions in association with Wexner Center for the Arts and CD102.5 FM at the LC Outdoor Pavilion, 405 Neil Ave. in the Arena District, on Sunday, June 14. Doors open at 5:30 pm.

Tickets go on sale at noon Friday, January 16, and can be purchased at Ticketmaster outlets or online at Ticketmaster.com. Next@Wex Fest tickets are $32 in advance for all audiences or $35 day of show.

Belle and Sebastian most recently played Columbus in November 2003, at the Wexner Center’s Mershon Auditorium. This year sees them touring in support of their new album, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, a long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s Write About Love. The new record, produced and mixed at Maze Studios in Atlanta by Ben H. Allen III (best known for his work with Gnarls Barkley and Animal Collective, among others) finds the band under the influence of vintage Detroit techno and Giorgio Moroder. These new influences have brought a dance-party element (not to mention a disco song about Sylvia Plath) into their gorgeous tales of sensitive souls navigating a world gone awry. 

Opening the show is composer, producer, and performer Son Lux (aka Ryan Lott), known in indie circles for his wide-ranging experimentalism, which combines classical elements with electronica, and his collaborations, which span rising-star composer Nico Muhley, Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) Sufjan Stevens, and Lorde.

Additional support is still to be announced.

Next@Wex Fest is a special partnership of the Wexner Center, PromoWest Production, and CD102.5 FM and provides support for Wexner Center programming and the children’s charity arm of CD102.5 FM.