Lucy Dacus has debuted a new song while performing live in Brooklyn with Julien Baker.
- READ MORE: Boygenius on the enduring power of ‘The Record’: “We feel as good as we ever hoped to”
On October 8, Lucy Dacus was revealed as the “special guest” performer for Julien Baker’s rescheduled concert in Brooklyn, New York. The show was meant as a replacement date for Baker’s October 6 set, which was cut short due to the singer falling ill.
During the October 6 show, Dacus appeared onstage to wild applause, only to break the news to the audience that the gig was being cancelled as Baker was too ill to continue performing. A replacement date was announced for October 8 with a “special guest” performer.
Fast forward to October 8 and Dacus performed a short six-song acoustic set before Julien Baker’s make-up set, and debuted a new song. Watch fan-shot footage of Lucy Dacus’s new song below.
The song has yet to receive a title, but was “dedicated to lesbians”. “Happy Lesbian Day. This song is dedicated to lesbians,” Dacus said before beginning the song.
Late last month, Baker debuted two new tracks in Chicago – ‘Middle Children’, and ‘High In The Basement’. She was also joined by Bartees Strange in Washington DC for a special rendition of ‘Ringside’.
Baker and Dacus are two of the three members that make up Boygenius, who earlier this year, won three Grammy Awards: Best Rock Performance (‘Not Strong Enough’), Best Rock Song (‘Not Strong Enough’) and Best Alternative Music Album (‘The Record’).
It came shortly after the trio announced their hiatus at a secret show in LA. “We’re going away for the foreseeable future,” fans quoted them as saying. “This is our last show, and we’re feeling it.”
Back in December, Boygenius told NME that they liked the idea of the band’s future remaining “a surprise” after their debut LP ‘The Record’ was named our album of the year for 2023.
Baker continued: “I like having this band be something that, because it’s more ephemeral or whatever, it’s not concretely tied to one of us or a person we have to live in every day. It’s something we can revisit when we feel motivated to, or it’s a place we can retreat to. I like saving it as something sacred instead of feeling like I have to constantly grind on it.”
‘The Record’ earned Boygenius their first UK Number One album last April. In a five-star review, NME said the project was “the instant classic we were hoping for”.
