AUGIE MARCH FINALLY TAKE OFF AND TOUR

Augie March’s third album Moo, You Bloody Choir has achieved that rarest of doubles – universal critical acclaim AND a truckload of sales. It’s the first time the band have had a gold anything, and to celebrate, they are staging their grandest tour to date.

Their last national tour sold out so far in advance it left an army of distraught fans praying there would be more announced soon. This time the band has booked some big ol’ theatres in which to fully sprawl out their neo-vintage sonic wonder. And invited a couple of very special international guests along for the ride.

Moo, You Bloody Choir is still in the charts some three months after release, and has garnered a string of phenomenal reviews from critics and fans alike for their emotive live performances, plus the first J Award Nomination for 2006, an ARIA Top 10 album position, and much exposure from many and varied radio and television stations. Their single “One Crowded Hour” has become The Feel Good Hit Of The Autumn and Winter and the band will be headlining the GW McLennan Theatre Stage at the sold-out Splendour In The Grass festival.

Very special guests on The One Crowded Tour are mesmerizing Appalachian-ish Texan songstress Jolie Holland returning after a triumphant 03 Australian tour, and UK folk-ish sensation David Ford, here for the very first time.

Jolie Holland’s wonderful new album Springtime Can Kill You is a stunning album “where sounds from past and present-tense waltz together to a never-ending melody that flickers between folk, jazz, blues and pop as Holland’s characters and situations play on surrealistic celluloid.” In them big old theatres hers will be a show not to be missed.

The hypnotic David Ford is a solo singer-songwriter signed to Independiente in the UK and Columbia in the US and currently creating a sensation in the original music scenes of both countries. His album I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I’ve Caused comes out in Australia in June.

Dates:
AUGUST
Thursday 10th - The Tivoli, Brisbane QLD
Friday 11th - The Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW
Friday 18th - The Forum, Melbourne VIC
Sunday 20th - Queens Theatre, Adelaide SA

SNOW PATROL HEADLINE SHOWS

Already named as one of the artists on this year’s Splendour in the Grass bill, it has now been confirmed that Snow Patrol will also perform shows in Sydney and Melbourne this July.

Since Snow Patrol’s last trip down-under two years ago, the band have been very busy, touring the globe incessantly along with writing and recording material for their new album Eyes Open . Featuring the songs “Hands Open” and “You’re All I Have”, the album has carried on from Snow Patrol’s spectacular form on Final Straw, topping the UK and Irish album charts.

Now sporting a five-man line-up – frontman Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Paul Wilson, Tom Simpson and Jonny Quinn – Snow Patrol’s four album back catalogue and abundance of touring experience sees the quintet deliver killer live shows time after time.

Now with confirmed arena performances for the UK at years end, Australians should ensure they catch Snow Patrol live before they reach the superstar status they’ve already achieved overseas.

Dates:
Sunday 23 July - Splendour in the Grass, Byron Bay
Monday 24 July - Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Tuesday 25 July - The Metro, Melbourne