The Pond Australian Tour 2013 has added extra dates as the Perth band are nominate for several coveted WAM gongs.

Hitting the road this December for the Hobo Rocket National Tour, named in support of their latest album, the band have added a second show at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel after the initial date has sold out, while a regional date for Byron Bay for Afends Christmas shenanigans has been added to the tour itinerary.

The news arrives as Pond earn nominations in the WAM Awards; categories include Rock Act of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year (for frontman Nick Allbrook), Group of the Year, as well as Album/EP of the Year for Hobo Rocket. 

The fifth and latest Pond album found the ratty psych-rockers “inject economy into their wild, witty wall of sound,” according to our Tone Deaf reviewer, who added: ”If Tame Impala’s Lonerism was a love letter to a bygone era inked on fine parchment, Pond’s latest is like a hilarious skit about its greatest excesses scrawled on a napkin.”

Nick Allbrook describes the release as “…kind of mindset of finding our own little place in music, and being more of a functioning band, which is what makes it noisier and denser. This one we went as brutally hard as we would at a show. We wanted the songs to sound loose and live.”

Never ones to rest on their laurels, Pond have already finished recording and putting together their sixth studio album, Man It Feels Like Space Again, making their December national tour the only headline tour of Hobo Rocket, as next tim they hit the road it will be to deliver new material.

Filling the supporting boots on this national tour will be super fun friends Doctopus. (You should check them out. They rule.) Additional local supports will be announced in the coming months.

Tickets are on sale NOW for all shows – head to www.pondband.com for all the details.

Pond Australian Tour 2013

Thursday 12th December, 2013 – Metropolis Fremantle, Perth

Friday 13th December, 2013 – The Gov, Adelaide

Saturday 14th December, 2013 – The Zoo, Brisbane

Sunday 15th December, 2013 – The Northern, Byron Bay – Just Added!

Wednesday 18th December, 2013 – The Corner Hotel, Melbourne – Just Added!

Thurs 19th December, 2013 – The Corner Hotel, Melbourne – SOLD OUT

Friday 20th December, 2013 – Metro Theatre, Sydney

Hobo Rocket is out now on Modular and is available on CD in record stores, on vinyl here, or online.

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