Name: Foster The People at Fox Theater
Start: 2025-01-31T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Fox Theater - Oakland

Foster The People is bringing the Paradise State of Mind Tour to the historic Fox Theater in Oakland on Friday, January 31st, 2025! Good Neighbours will open the show.
The Another Planet Entertainment presale begins Thursday, October 17th at 10am (password = forma) via TheFoxOakland.com.
The general on sale begins Friday, October 18th at 10am!
Please note presale tickets are only available online.
LISTEN TO FOSTER THE PEOPLE:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7gP3bB2nilZXLfPHJhMdvc?si=46hBcQrcSo2L7XAMg17uoA
WATCH FOSTER THE PEOPLE:
https://www.youtube.com/@FosterThePeople
ABOUT FOSTER THE PEOPLE:
Mark Foster didn’t show up at The Church, his old friend and collaborator Paul Epworth’s studio in North London, expecting to dive full force into a new Foster the People album. He arrived without any expectations at all, just excited to be traveling internationally for the first time in a couple years, and eager to reconnect with Epworth after almost a decade. He didn’t realize at the time that Paradise State of Mind was about to be born, its title track written and recorded hours after he set foot in the door.
It was spring of 2022, and Foster had accompanied his partner on a work trip to the U.K. He knew he’d be there a couple months, and he was happy to have no real plans. It had been five years since Sacred Hearts Club, the band’s previous album, and so many intense things had happened in the world at large, and in Foster’s world in particular, that he hadn’t really felt ready to jump back into the fray of public life. Musical ideas had visited him, but none of them felt inviting. “I thought long and hard about what I wanted to make,” he says. “I almost made a punk record, and just went straight at everything. But I kept pausing because the energy didn’t feel quite right, and it wasn’t making me feel any better. I started thinking, ‘How can I make a record that is healing for me, and maybe for people who listen to it, too?’”
The trip to the U.K. brought a fresh perspective, and a chance to look at that creative puzzle in the company of trusted collaborators. And The Church itself felt like a welcoming nest – this beautiful, historic structure that had been converted from a proper house of worship to a more metaphorical one in 1980 by Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, and which had previously hosted recordings by Bob Dylan and Radiohead and Adele. Foster entered the studio with nothing and started building from the ground up, that very first day. He grabbed a bass and started to lay down a groove, Epworth jumped on the drums, and singer-songwriter Jack Peñate, who had also stopped by that day, joined them on guitar, adding some of his signature strumming to “Paradise State of Mind.” And suddenly, there it was: a new beginning.
“It was such a cathartic relief when that song came together,” Foster says. “That one day cracked open a lot. I can hear it in the vocal when I listen to it now – the isolation I had been feeling, and how much I needed to break out of my own head.” The lyrics flowed out of him: “Just need to stop trying to work out why something feels good and let it all in.” That’s exactly what he did, over the course of the next eighteen months and a couple trips back and forth between The Church and the legendary East West Studios in Los Angeles, where he recorded and produced Paradise State of Mind.
Foster explains that when he came off the road following Sacred Hearts Club, he realized he needed to take a step back and get healthy, and part of that was getting sober. “I had to really let things get rearranged, and put some old things down, in order for this to be sustainable,” he says. “I got everything I thought I wanted, and then I realized that that wasn’t it, and that the simpler things that I didn’t know I needed were right in front of me, and didn’t cost a thing. I think stripping away all of the things I was chasing made me open enough to be able to receive some of the deeper things that were more spiritual, that are kind of effervescent and intangible, and really gentle, like the wind. You have to be quiet enough to be able to hear it. I need that connection, more than anything, to be able to walk through the rest of the noise. I feel like now, coming back out into the world, I’m open to whatever this experience is, in a new way.”