Cairo Knife Fight Australian tour 2012! New Zealand’s electrifying power rock duo will soon be in Australia for three very special shows after adding their unique sound to this year’s 2012 SXSW Festival line-up in Austin, TX.
Though the band is only comprised of two men, drummer/lead vocalist/bass synth man Nick Gaffaney and guitarist and loop pedal genius Aaron Tokona, this duo deliver a tidal wave of complete sound that is imbued with a sense of urgency. A sound so intense that Alternative Press Magazine chose them as one of their bands you need to know in 2012.
In a recent interview, Gaffaney likened what they do to guerrilla warfare, turning their weakness into strengths in all respects. And the proof is in the riff-churned pudding which is their new four-track EP Cairo Knife Fight II (released via Liberation Music on April 6). The first single and accompanying video off the EP, “The Origin of Slaves,” is massive, chest thumping, and blood curdling without losing the bands’ renowned razor-edge precision.
They’ve got the power of early Zeppelin and an abject fearlessness that plants them firmly alongside the great contemporary rock bands in terms of a willingness to shirk boundaries. With a sound replete with metal riffs and prog-rock expansiveness, Cairo Knife Fight have earned their fair share of admirers and were personally hand-picked to share their home stage with Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures and twice with Foo Fighters – most recently at New Zealand’s biggest musical event of 2011 at Western Springs.
2011 also saw Cairo Knife Fight as finalists in the “Rock Album of the Year’ category of the New Zealand Vodafone Music and headline a triumphant CMJ music festival showcase in New York. The New Zealand Herald said “…brilliantly unhinged, hallucinatory, and riff-fired music,” and Tokona insists, “The first EP was just a taste. Now we’re taking more risks and we are way more fearless.
Their 2012 debut appearance at SXSW in Austin, TX marks a milestone in the band’s career as they are officially invited to hypnotise the audience of one of the most prominent music festivals on US soil with their epic, hallucinatory rock ‘n’ roll sound.
Get to know Cairo Knife Fight’s gritty, mesmerizing music and be prepared for their mosh-inducing live performances as they bring their heralded sound to Australia in April 2012
CAIRO KNIFE FIGHT AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2012
Thursday April 26 Workers Club (Melbourne, AUS)
w/ Corpus and special guests
Friday April 27 Good God Bar (Sydney, AUS)
w/ Gatherer and special guests
Sunday April 29 Cherry Rock Festival (Melbourne, AUS)
Cairo Knife Fight new four-track EP II on sale Friday April 6 through Liberation Music.
Check out the video for lead single “Origin Of Slaves”.
