José González plays his song "Cycling Trivialities" live in concert at The Fox Theater in Oakland, California on March 14, 2022. Cycling Trivialities appeared on Gonzalez's second studio album, In Our Nature (2007). José González is a folk singer-songwriter and virtuoso acoustic guitar player from Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also a member of the band Junip, has collaborated with UK duo Zero 7, and contributed several songs to the soundtrack to the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
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Cycling Trivialities lyrics:
Too blind to know your best
Hurrying through the forks without regrets
Different now, every step feels like a mile
All the lights seem to flash and pass you by
So how's it gonna be
When it all comes down, you're cycling trivialities
Don't know which way to turn
Every trifle becoming big concerns
All this time you were chasing dreams
Without knowing what you wanted them to mean
So how's it gonna be
When it all comes down, you're cycling trivialities
So how's it gonna be
When it all comes down, you're cycling trivialities
Who cares in a hundred years from now
All your small steps, all your shitty clouds
Who cares in a hundred years from now
Who'll remember all the players
Who'll remember all the clowns
So how's it gonna be
When it all comes down, you're cycling trivialities
So where is this leaving me
When it all comes down, you're cycling trivialities
Written by José Gabriel González
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Jose Gonzalez live tour dates (2022):
March 9 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
March 10 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
March 11 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
March 12 - Bend, OR @ Tower Theatre
March 14 - Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theater
March 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
March 17 - San Diego, CA @ Balboa Theatre
March 18 - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
March 19 - Phoenix, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre
March 20 - Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Theater
March 21 - Santa Fe, NM @ Lensic Performing Arts Center
March 23 - Mexico City, Mexico @ Teatro Metropólitan
March 25 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Tower Theatre
March 26 - Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre
March 27 - Austin, TX @ Long Center for the Performing Arts
April 16 - Palma De Mallorca, Spain @ Mallorca Live Nights
April 25 - Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique
April 26 - Bristol, UK @ The Marble Factory
April 27 - London, UK @ The Roundhouse
April 28 - Cambridge, UK @ Cambridge Junction
April 29 - Cardiff, UK @ Tramshed
May 21 - Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel @ Tel Aviv Opera House
June 9 - Warsaw, Poland @ Palladium
June 10 - Riga, Latvia @ Palladium
June 11 - Tallinn, Estonia @ Alexela Kontserdimaja
June 17 - Aarhus, Denmark @ VoxHall
June 18 - Oslo, Norway @ Pipfest
Aug. 9 - Malmö, Sweden @ Pildammsparken
Aug. 25 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Ford
Aug. 26 - Saratoga, CA @ Mountain Winery
Aug. 28 - Port Townsend, WA @ Thing Festival
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Jose Gonzalez official bio:
José González is in a class by himself. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “someone whose subtle, carefully crafted music delivers rewards to listeners who know how to wait,” González’s stellar career can only be described as a dream. From selling out tours on virtually every continent to headlining prestigious festivals around the world to being asked to perform at 2020’s Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and seeing his recorded music exceed 1 billion streams, González is one of the most exciting and in-demand touring artists working today. Whether appearing alone with his guitar or with a 20-piece orchestra, or with his band The Brite Lites, or choosing between duo and trio formats, his performances are never merely shows – they are events. And González has every intention of continuing this tradition as he prepares his fully solo tour in support of the eagerly awaited release of his fourth studio album, Local Valley.
The visionary singer-songwriter/guitarist’s long-awaited album, and first to contain songs in all of the languages he speaks (English, Spanish and Swedish), Local Valley provides a welcome reminder of the Gothenburg, Sweden-based artist’s understated appeal and unabashed intimacy, a quality Billboard praised as “one of the most recognizable sounds in indie rock.” The album finds González once again armed with just a handful of nylon-stringed Spanish guitars, yet this time, technology did creep into the proceedings. “I allowed myself to loop guitars as I aim to do live with pedals,” González says, “and in my head I was hearing how each track would fit with an orchestra (The String Theory) or my five-piece band (The Brite Lites), with whom I’ve been touring on and off the last decade.” Four albums in, Local Valley finds Jose González, in the words of his song, “Visions,” still “imagining the worlds that could be/Shaping a mosaic of fates/For all sentient beings.” With Local Valley, Jose González once again proves that music doesn’t need to be loud to be heard.
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Typo catcher: Jose Gonzales, Joze Gonzalvez, Jose Gonzlaez, Cycling Trivalties, Recycling Trivialities
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