Four Tet to Play Open-to-Close Set at Kia Forum in SoCal

Four Tet is the sole billing for “a Woogie experience” organized by Lightning in a Bottle and Goldenvoice.

Four Tet is among the small handful of DJs who can pull off a single-headliner event at an arena. The UK superstar will do exactly that on February 22 when he plays an open-to-close set at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California.

The gathering is a joint partnership between promotional juggernaut Goldenvoice and boutique electronic music festival Lightning in a Bottle. They’ve billed it as “a Woogie experience,” a nod to the iconic LiB stage whose surrealistic aesthetic will make the experience more colorful.

That is, if media shared by Four Tet (real name Kieran Hebden) on Instagram are any indication. Attached to his post promoting the show are photos and videos of otherworldly installations that hung from the ceiling of his October 2023 open-to-close set at San Fransisco arena Cow Palace. “We’re putting all this mad shit inside the venue,” he shared on his Instagram Story. “It’s going to be proper bananas.”

Hebden was decently well known prior to the pandemic, but his career vaulted to new heights after nightlife switched back on. After collaborating with Fred again.. and Skrillex on the smash hit “Rumble” in 2022, he appeared on the latter artist’s long-awaited 2023 return album Quest For Fire. The three played to a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden at the moment of its release across music platforms.

Earlier this year, Hebden released an album of his own titled Three. It’s his twelfth to date as Four Tet; he previously played guitar for a post-rock band called Fridge in the ’90s.

Artist presale tickets for Four Tet: Open to Close are now available via Seated. The general on-sale goes live at 10am PT on Friday, October 11.

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