"There's a particular way artists talk about San Francisco when the city has truly mattered to them-not as scenery, but as a place where something shifted. For Cate Le Bon, the Bay Area lives in that register, folded into memory, music, and a formative period that still resonates beneath the surface of the Welsh singer-songwriter's work. "I've spent a lot of time in San Francisco," she says, simply."
"When she played the Great American Music Hall on her Pompeii tour in 2022, something crystallized. "It's hands down my favorite show that I have ever played," says Le Bon. "The crowd was just so engaged, and the transference of energy was just palpable. Oh, God, it was incredible. I remember it as if it were a dream. We all felt like we'd won a competition.""
Cate Le Bon spent significant time in San Francisco and regards it as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The city provided a sense of communion and reciprocity that she associates with connection rather than spectacle. A 2022 performance at the Great American Music Hall on the Pompeii tour felt like a dream and remains her favorite show, marked by engaged audiences and palpable energy transfer. Her album Michelangelo Dying was shaped by the rupture of a relationship; the title comes from a lyric in "Love Unrehearsed." The record emerged from heartache and an embrace of chaotic, fevered thought.
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