The fans have spoken in their numbers and box office demand for Foals’ forthcoming Australian Tour now means that the band’s Sydney date has sold out five months before the five-piece have even landed in the country.
The Enmore Theatre show on Saturday 28th September now joins Melbourne’s Palace Theatre – the night before – in reaching full capacity, while promoters Secret Sounds urge Brisbane punters to get in quick with only a handful of tickets still available to the band’s show at the Tivoli Theatre on Wednesday 2nd October – the only chance Queenslanders will have to catch Foals this year.
With demand high in Sydney and Melbourne, and anticipation even higher, Foals are looking to add more shows in these areas. More details are to come, so watch this space.
Excitement for the British indie superstars has been peaking since March, when it was first announced that the Mercury Prize-nominated group would be returning to Australi in September for a huge national headline tour.
In the country earlier this year for the Big Day Out (check out our video interview with them here) , demand for tickets saw Foals sell out two intimate Sydney club shows in less than 10 minutes. On their 2008 debut Antidotes, Foals’ effortless techo-inflected indie reflected one rule: Yannis, Jack, Walter, Edwin and Jimmy wanted guitar music they could dance to.
Two years later, Foals unveiled the Mercury shortlisted Total Life Forever (which included widescreen masterpiece “Spanish Sahara”) In February 2013 delivered their finest album yet: Holy Fire.
“We wanted a record that was all gut,” says frontman Philippakis. “The mission we set was to get freer. The focus was on the emotion: from our hearts and our hands, into the instruments and the microphones, then out of a speaker, six months later – and into your ears.”
Debuting at #1 on the ARIA album charts thanks to first single “Inhaler” (2.7m YouTube views and counting) and follow-up “My Number”, the Triple J Feature Album was recorded by infamous producers Flood (PJ Harvey, U2) and Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), at the pair’s Assault & Battery studios in North West London.
With their reputation for ferocious and savage live shows well familiar to Aussie fans, demand for FOALS tickets will be high – get in quick! Tickets will go on sale 9am, Monday 18 March.
Holy Fire is out now via Transgressive/Warner Music Australia.
Foals 2013 Australian Tour
SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER: METRO CITY, PERTH – (18+)
Tickets from: oztix.com.au & 1300 762 545
TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER: HQ, ADELAIDE – (LICENSED ALL AGES)
Tickets from: oztix.com.au & 1300 762 545
FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER: THE PALACE THEATRE, MELBOURNE – (18+) – SOLD OUT! Tickets from: ticketek.com.au & 132 849
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER: ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY – (LICENSED ALL AGES) – SOLD OUT! Tickets from: ticketek.com.au & 132 849
WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER: THE TIVOLI, BRISBANE – (18+)
Tickets from: ticketek.com.au & 132 849
Tickets on sale 9am, MONDAY 18 MARCH
