J Spaceman brings the acoustic Spiritualized set, with a string quartet and gospel singers, to Union Chapel for two nights in April.
J Spaceman takes Spiritualized’s Acoustic Mainlines to Union Chapel in Islington for two nights, Friday 2 and Saturday 3 April 2027. A string quartet, gospel singers and the guitarist Tony Foster play with him.
J Spaceman is Jason Pierce, who formed Spiritualized in Rugby in 1990 after Spacemen 3 split. The 1997 album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space added gospel choirs and brass to slow-building psychedelia.
The band were the last to play Manchester’s Haçienda, in June 1997. The latest of their nine studio albums is Everything Was Beautiful, from 2022.
The acoustic shows began around the making of Songs In A&E, after Pierce survived serious illness. They grew out of a Daniel Johnston concert at the Barbican, where Pierce and Foster played covers of Johnston’s songs. The set draws on the Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized catalogues, with cover versions.
The two Islington nights follow the project’s Barbican Hall date on Saturday 12 December 2026. Kilimanjaro Live presents both evenings.