Spiritualized to christen downtown’s Theatre at Ace with Feb. 14 performance of ‘Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space’

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The Theatre at Ace, the newest concert venue in downtown Los Angeles, opens in a big way on Feb. 14 when U.K. psychedelic rockers Spiritualized stage a performance of their 1997 masterpiece “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space.” The band, fronted by Jason Pierce (pictured playing a stripped-down set at Coachella in April), will perform backed by a 30-piece orchestra and choir.

The theater – the rehabbed, 2,200-seat United Artists Theatre, which opened in 1927 – is conjoined to the new Ace Hotel, scheduled to open in January. Tickets for the show (starting at $59) go on sale Thursday.

Oh, and the concert hall looks pretty spectacular:

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Photo by Spencer Lowell