Just prior to the release of his highly-anticipated sophomore album, UK’s James Blake will return to Australia for two special shows this month.
Fans in Melbourne and Sydney will witness the enchantment that is the UK producer/performer’s live show, as he will take to the stage of The Corner Hotel and Sydney’s Verbrugghen Hall for a rare and intimate affair.
In his first visit since his famed Splendour In the Grass jaunt in 2011, this tour will reveal his brand new follow-up album Overgrown live.
After collaborating with the likes of Brian Eno and RZA, Blake’s new material casts light on a further evolved artist, one with fewer boundaries, a richness of depth and newfound intensity.
Blake’s 2011 self-titled debut tipped the UK bass culture on its head; down previously unimagined roads of introspection. Including singles, ‘The Wilhelm Scream’ and Fiest cover ‘Limit To Your Love’, the work earned Blake a Mercury Prize nomination, along with two BRIT award nominations and a #2 on the BBC Sound of 2011 countdown.
It saw him travel the globe over, each show met with pin-drop silence for an audience willing to be transposed to another world.
The 24 year old Londoner’s signature soaring electronics and stunning reinterpretations of dubstep, hip-hop and house are qualities that culminate in latest single ‘Retrograde’.
Partnered by a dark and deeply pensive video, the track is an electronic soul testament that earmarks Blake as a worthy successor to thrones long since vacated by Massive Attack and Aphex Twin.
James Blake 2013 Australian Tour
Tuesday 19th March: The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Tickets available from: cornerhotel.com & 1300 724 867
Friday 22nd March: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney
Tickets available from: ticketmaster.com.au & 136 100
Tickets on sale Monday 11th March at 9:00am
