Björk says she changed the way she tours so she “can actually have a life”

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Björk has spoken about how her tours have changed in recent years so she “can actually have a life”.The singer-songwriter changed the way she toured after her seventh album, Biophilia in 2011.Instead of moving from city to city, she set up a musical residency and stayed in the same place for weeks at a time.Explaining her decision to tour in this way, she said in a new interview with The Guardian: “The nuts and bolts are more flexible.

Maybe being a woman, or a matriarch, or whatever, I try to make it more that people can actually have a life.“I have gently fought, since my teenage years, this macho way of how people organise both films and tours. ‘Oh, let’s now work 18 hours a day, every single day, until everybody throws up.’ I always wanted to coexist.

You can have a personal life. You can have your kids. You can have your partners there. I’m not saying I’ve succeeded but at least I’ve tried to create a world that is more open to things like that.”Her most recent ‘Cornucopia’ tour featured “27 moving curtains that captured projections on different textures and LED screens, creating a digitally animated show: a modern lanterna magica for live music.”She recently released Cornucopia: The Book which documents and chronicles her four year tour over 480 pages and includes over 300 images from photographer Santiago Felipe.