Glass Animals have released a new video for their single “Space Ghost Coast To Coast,” the track is off their current release Dreamland.

“Space Ghost Coast To Coast” was written about lead singer Dave Bayley’s time living in Texas, using a rap homage to bring a youthful friendship gone wrong to life. The visual for “Space Ghost Coast To Coast” was directed by Max Siedentopf and once seen, will not be quickly forgotten. As the camera pans high in the sky over the streets of London, an avatar of charismatic Dave dances in the streets and on top of buildings, often multiplied, across the city. Eventually stripping off to his pixelated birthday suit, a huge crew of avatar Daves then enjoy a nude dance in the park. Dave says of the video, “‘Space Ghost’ is about someone I knew growing up in Texas…we drifted apart when I moved away at 13, but I found out a few years later he did something truly awful. The lyrics of the track are just wondering what makes someone change so much from being an innocent kid to someone who can even consider doing what he did. It talks about how in the 2000’s, violent video games and lyrics were blamed by the media for that type of misbehaviour in teenagers…but really I think there were much bigger societal problems at play. The video is a twist on those video games. Every video we have made in the last year has been made in peak lockdown…we had to get creative. In this case, Max came up with the idea that he could film me dancing in the park while sitting in his apartment. He was giving me direction the whole time via phone in my earbuds. It starts there and gets more and more surreal ha.”

Glass Animals recently announced their North American “Dreamland Tour,” which sold over 130,000 tickets in just 3 days and is quickly selling out. The run kicks off August 30th in Lewiston, NY and takes the band across North America well into 2022.

Glass Animals US “Dreamland Tour”
2021:

August 30th Lewiston, NY Artpark
August 31st Brooklyn, NY Prospect Park Bandshell
September 1st Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
September 3rd Manchester, TN Bonnaroo
September 4th Charlotte, NC Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
September 5th Wilmington, NC Riverfront Park Amphitheater
September 7th St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheatre
September 8th Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy
September 9th Birmingham, AL Avondale Brewing Company
September 11th Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall
September 12th Austin, TX Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park
September 13th Irving, TX The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
September 15th Phoenix, AZ Arizona Federal Theatre
September 17th Las Vegas, NV Life is Beautiful Festival
September 18th Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Forever Cemetery
September 22nd Kansas City, KS Azura Amphitheater
September 24th Columbus, OH EXPRESS LIVE! – Outdoor Amphitheater
September 27th Richmond, VA Virginia Credit Union LIVE!
September 28th Philadelphia, PA Skyline Stage @ The Mann
September 29th Boston, MA Leader Bank Pavilion
October 1st Cleveland, OH Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
October 2nd Detroit, MI Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
October 28th Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
October 29th San Francisco, CA Outside Lands Festival

2022:
March 8th Portland, OR Keller Auditorium
March 10th Vancouver, BC Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
March 11th Seattle, WA WaMu Theater
March 13th Salt Lake City, UT The Union
March 14th Denver, CO The Mission Ballroom
March 16th Madison, WI The Sylvee
March 17th Minneapolis, MN The Armory
March 18th Chicago, IL University of Illinois at Chicago – Credit Union 1 Arena
March 20th Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater
March 21st Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre
March 22nd Louisville, KY The Louisville Palace Theater
March 23rd Saint Louis, MO The Factory
March 28th Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
March 29th Washington, DC The Anthem
April 1st Toronto, ON TBD
April 3rd Montreal, QC MTELUS
June 14th Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheater
June 15th Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheater