Fresh off their first release of the year with new single, “Can’t Pretend to Know,” Irish post-punk band The Murder Capital have announced an Australia and New Zealand tour for next year.
Formed in Dublin, The Murder Capital is made up of five members who met at music college: Gabriel Paschal Blake (bass), Diarmuid Brennan (drums), Damien Tuit and Cathal Roper (guitar), and vocalist James McGovern. It’ll be the first time in Australia and New Zealand for the band, who’ve now released two projects since their offical debut at the start of 2019.
The Murder Capital have debuted atop the Irish charts with last year’s album Gigi’s Recovery, also soaring into the UK Top 20. Since then, they’ve set Glastonbury and Coachella stages on fire, and even got to support their musical idols, Pearl Jam. Soon, they’ll be joining Nick Cave & the Black Seeds on the road as well.
“Can’t Pretend to Know” explores hard lessons from childhood and the drastic changes they went through growing up. The track will be perfect for their Australian tour, as it captures the entirety of the bands heavy sound.
According to member James McGovern, the track “is a whip of a tune that we made to feel like a hurricane of colour and breathlessness. A surreal look at childhood innocence and all its replacers, those delicate bridges we burn as we move through the strange-ways of our youth. Moulded by everything we come into contact with. Learning lessons from toys. Playing the parts that are asked of us”.
The Murder Capital 2025 Australia and New Zealand Tour
Tickets on sale from Wednesday, September 25th at 9am (local time) via troubadourpresents.com
Monday, March 31st
San Fran, Wellington, NZ
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