The Growl’s Cam Avery & 6 More Local Tours You Should Attend

There’s always plenty of concerts and gigs for live music lovers to see all around Australia, so here’s where you get all the latest info on dates, venues, and tickets for announced upcoming tours. 

Straight off the bat is a new solo tour from a member of The Growl/Tame Impala/Pond, as well as surprise news from Dream, On Dreamer, dates from Mia Dyson, Rainy Day Women, Luca Brasi, I, A Man, and a new tour from a former member of The Middle East.

Cameron Avery (The Growl) Solo Australian Tour Announced

The Growl frontman (and Tame Impala bassist) Cameron Avery is heading out for a solo national tour through four capital cities to showcase his “capital music” this September. Specifically, Avery will be roadtesting new material for a forthcoming new album from The Growl. “Aesthetically this a massive departure from my debut album. These songs were an outlet,” Avery muses. “Chronological and reflective at the same time kinda. Consider it an expensive and time consuming memoir of the past couple years, sonically shared.”

The new album, two years in the making, features collaborations throughout Avery’s travels from internationally “acclaimed artists from favoured musical hubs like London, Los Angeles, and across Australia.” Joining as support is Spinning Top Music labelmate Shiny Joe Ryan (the solo project of Pond’s drummer), who released his debut LP The Cosmic Microwave Background earlier this year with these being Ryan’s first national solo gigs. A live pairing not to be missed – so don’t!
Wednesday 3rd September – The Vanguard Sydney NSW
Tickets: http://www.thevanguard.com.au/shows/2014/09/03/village-sounds/12436

Thursday 4th September – Black Bear Lodge Brisbane QLD
Tickets: http://villagesounds.oztix.com.au/Default.aspx?Event=45448

Friday 5th September – The Workers Club Melbourne VIC
Tickets: http://villagesounds.oztix.com.au/Default.aspx?Event=45449

Saturday 13th September – Mojo’s Fremantle WA
Tickets: http://villagesounds.oztix.com.au/Default.aspx?Event=45451

Mia Dyson Australian Tour 2014

Released in May this year, Idyllwild is Mia Dyson’s “most self-assured collection of songs and stories to date” and now the Melbourne singer-songwriter is taking her latest album on the road as she releases the title track as a stand-alone single. ‘Idyllwild’, the song, tips its ht to a small town outside of LA where Dyson spent an unconventional ‘honeymoon’. Dyson explains: “It was a surreal, utopian journey and out of it came this frenetic, high-spirited song, stylistically influenced by bands from my 80s childhood like Elvis Costello & Talking Heads.” Already a finely-honed live act, be sure to go wild with the celebrated songstress this October and November.

Wednesday 1st October – Live at Lizottes (solo), Kincumber, NSW
Tickets: www.lizottes.com.au

Thursday 2nd October – Newtown Social Club, Sydney, NSW
Tickets: www.newtownsc.ticketscout.com.au/gigs/2778/MiaDyson

Friday 3rd October – Live at Lizottes, Lambton, NSW
Tickets: www.lizottes.com.au

Thursday 9th October – Harvester Moon, Bellarine, VIC
Ticket: www.trybooking.com/96279

Friday 10th October – Howler, Melbourne, VIC
Tickets: www.moshtix.com.au

Saturday 11th October – Caravan Club, Melbourne, VIC
Tickets: www.caravanmusic.com.au

Sunday 12th October – Old Hepburn Springs, Hepburn Springs, VIC
Tickets: www.oztix.com.au

Thursday 16th & Friday 17th October – Darwin Railway Club, Darwin, NT
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com.au

Friday 21st November – New Globe Theatre, Brisbane, QLD
Tickets: www.thenewglobetheatre.com

Dream On Dreamer Announce New Single, Australian Tour 2014

Melbourne post-hardcore idols Dream On Dreamer have just delighted fans with the surprise announcement of a new single and accompanying tour dates – kicking off this Friday! ‘Darkness Brought Me Here’ will be out the same day and marks the band’s first new song since the addition of Chris Shaw (ex-House Vs Hurricane) joined the lineup, showcasing their mix of punchy hooks and aggressive energy. The track – along with Dream On Dreamer’s esteemed back catalogue – will be going through its paces across seven dates over the next two months.

Friday 8th August 2014 – Black Market, Adelaide, SA
Tickets: Door sales only

Saturday 9th August 2014 – The Brightside, Brisbane, QLD
Tickets: http://dreamondreamer.oztix.com.au

Thursday 14th August – Next, Melbourne, VIC
Tickets: Door sales only

Thu 18th September 2014 – Last Night @ Amplifier, Perth, WA
Tickets: Door sales only

Fri 19th September 2014 – HQ, Perth, ALL AGES
Tickets: http://dreamondreamer.oztix.com.au

Thursday 25th September 2014 – Hot Damn (8th Birthday), Sydney, NSW
Tickets: Door sales only

Friday 26th September 2014 – Tattersall Hotel, Penrith, NSW
Tickets: Free entry

Stolen Violin Australian Tour 2014

Stolen Violin is the solo project of Jordan Ireland, one of the key voices and songwriters for the much-loved The Middle East, spawned last year following the demise of the much-loved Aussie outfit. Centred around Ireland’s gently haunting vocals and deft, moody plucking, Stolen Violin’s tunes recall the literary beauty of Mark Kozelek (of Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters fame) and even a murkier mode of Augie March. Having issued his sleeper (and sleepy) LP Temperate Touch, Tropical Tears last year, Stolen Violin is now set to perform a series of East Coast tour dates to showcase new material for a forthcoming album, due in early 2015. A rare chance to catch Stolen Violin live, and an even rarer opportunity to hear fresh material? What’s not to like?

Thursday 14th August – RAD, Wollongong
Tickets: https://thelittleboxoffice.com/yoursandowls/event/view/15039

Friday 15th August – Easy Tiger, Sydney
Tickets: https://secure.gobookem.com/venues/easy-tiger

Thursday 21st August – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane
Tickets: http://tickets.oztix.com.au/

Friday 22nd August – Gasometer, Melbourne
Tickets: http://gasometer.oztix.com.au/

Sunday 24th August -Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine
Tickets: http://tickets.oztix.com.au/

I, A Man & Split Seconds Co-Headline Tour Dates

Melbourne’s I, A Man have released new single ‘Minivan’, the latest slice of graceful indie rock lifted from their excellent debut LP, Gravity Wins Again, released in April via the band’s own label, We Swimmers.
To celebrate, the quartet are playing a special pair of co-headline shows with Melbourne-via-Perth Split Seconds next week that also double as launch gigs for ‘Minivan’. There’s also some killer support, with Sydney getting Smaal Cats and Melbourne treated to an opening slot from off-beat Brisbane band Babaganouj. If you’ve yet to be lulled by I, A Man’s charms – there’s no better time or excuse to do so.

Friday August 15 – The Brighton Up Bar, Sydney (w. Smaal Cats)
tickets.oztix.com.au

Saturday August 16 – The Gasometer, Melbourne (w. Babaganouj)
tickets.oztix.com.au

Rainy Day Women Australian Tour 2014

Emerging Perth alt-rock outfit Rainy Day Women have announced new national tour dates with Meg Mac, which handily coincide with the release of a new single taken from their forthcoming new album, ‘Mrs Jones’. The single follows on from lead cut ‘Mars’, which signals some intriguing growth from the WAM Award winning ‘Best Pop Act’ since they first signalled their arrival with last year’s ‘Friends’ and ‘Ain’t It Time’. Rainy Day Women play RTRFM’s Radiothon Party at the Bakery on Friday 15th August before heading east to join Meg Mac for sell-out shows in Sydney and Melbourne.

Aug 22 UWA Fringe Music Festival
Tickets TBC

Luca Brasi Australian Tour 2014

Heartfelt Tassie punk outfit Luca Brasi have just finished opening for Violent Soho on their massive sold out Australian tour, and now they’ve announced their own run of headline dates, dubbed the ‘Get Sad See Mates’ tour. Taking place through September and October, Luca Brasi will be taking their raucous, passionate live show to venues across the East Coast, as well as checking into this year’s BIGSOUND conference. If you’ve yet to check out their Poison City Records debut, By A Thread – one of the year’s more underrated local releases – then hearing it in the live setting might be the best way to do it. In the meantime, check out a highlight and the 2014 tour dates, below.

29th August – Wyndam Youth Center, Melbourne (All Ages)
Tickets: www.youth.wyndham.vic.gov.au

5th September – Pirie & Co. Social Club, Adelaide
Tickets: www.moshtix.com.au

6th September – Spectrum, Sydney 
Tickets: www.qbar.iwannaticket.com.au

10th & 11th September – BIGSOUND 2014, Brisbane
Tickets: www.qmusic.com.au

13th September – The Lab, Brisbane (All Ages)
Tickets: www.oztix.com.au

13th September – Crowbar, Brisbane
Tickets: www.oztix.com.au

20th September – Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne
Tickets: www.oztix.com.au

4th October – Club 54, Launceston
Tickets: www.oztix.com.au

10th October – Amplifier, Perth
Tickets:  www.amplifiercapitol.com.au

11th October – Prince Of Wales, Bunbury
Tickets: www.princehotel.com.au

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