The full Damon Albarn Australian Tour 2014 has been announced.
It was confirmed last week that Albarn would be returning Down Under to play a special headline show at the Sydney Opera House, with the promise of an additional Melbourne date.
Now Frontier Touring has confirmed that the Blur and Gorillaz mastermind will be playing The Palais this December while an additional Sydney Opera House date has been added due to overwhelming demand.
The Damon Albarn Australian Tour 2014 will be the first Australian shows since the recent release of the critically acclaimed new solo album, Everyday Robots.
Everyday Robots, an album which is “an intricate exposition of songwriting and production,” according to our Tone Deaf reviewer, features guest appearances from Brian Eno and Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes, and is the first record to be released under his own name.
Joining Albarn onstage is his new live band The Heavy Seas, including guitarist Seye Adelekan, drummer Pauli The PSM, guitarist Jeff Wootton and Mike Smith on keyboards, with the addition of a string quartet and six-member choir.
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Damon Albarn was last expected to visit Australia with his bandmates in Britpop icons Blur, to headline the Big Day Out festival earlier this year, but famously pulled out of the festival weeks from kick-off, blaming “shifting goalposts” and “very challenging organisers.”
In March, Albarn further explained the reasons behind the cancellation saying that Big Day Out promoters “weren’t being straight with me about things, which they needed to be, and at that point I became disillusioned because I didn’t want what we’d done throughout the year, with Blur, to be undermined or tarnished in any way, by a show that wasn’t going to be what we wanted to do.”
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The 46-year-old Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, producer and composer’s career also encompasses the massive global success of virtual band Gorillaz; two full length opera compositions (Dr Dee and Monkey: Journey To The West); Africa Express, the collective of African and Western musicians founded by Albarn and Baaba Maal in 2007; and writer and producer credits on Bobby Womack’s acclaimed The Bravest Man In The Universe (2012). Other releases include Mali Music (2002), The Good, The Bad & The Queen (2007) with The Clash’s Paul Simonon; and Rocket Juice & The Moon (2012) with Tony Allen and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
A Melbourne show from Damon Albarn will be announced soon, but in the meantime, tickets for the Sydney Opera House concert are on sale now.
Damon Albarn Australian Show 2014
Friday 12th December, 2014 – The Palais Theatre, Melbourne VIC
Tickets on sale 9am, Friday 18th July from ticketmaster.com.au
Monday 15th December, 2014 – Sydney Opera House, Sydney NSW
Tickets: From $79 sydneyoperahouse.com/music
Tuesday 16th December, 2014 – Sydney Opera House, Sydney NSW – New Show
Tickets: From $79 sydneyoperahouse.com/music
Further tickets and info at frontiertouring.com/damonalbarn
