The Yacht Club DJs Australian Tour 2014 has been announced as the country’s mashup maestros embark on a final farewell trek before officially calling it quits.
As announced last month, the party-starting Yacht Club DJs have confirmed that this will be their last year together before splitting, but before they put an end to their six years of musical mayhem, it’s time to celebrate one last time with a one final, thumping, national party.
Titled the Hooroo! Tour, Yacht Club DJs kick off on October 31st – seeing to it that Halloween 2014 marks a new anniversary as the Day of The Dance Floor – before playing at bars, clubs, and venues around the country before ending their final victory lap with two massive shows in the Victorian town that started it all: Ballarat.
The Ballarat locals are no strangers to a party. Since forming in 2008 they cut their vinyl at weekly residencies at Karova Lounge in their hometown, driving to the big smoke to turn up club nights across Melbourne and Sydney.
After a notorious breakout performance at Meredith Music Festival – they returned to the weekender a further three times and insured there wasn’t anyone in the ‘Sup left sitting down. The Yacht Club DJs spun their festival magic over four years at Splendour in The Grass. 2009/2010 summer saw the duo sell out two national tours – ‘Kleptomania’ and ‘Batten Down the Hatches’ as well as spin at Falls Festival and Field Day, head west for Southbound and back east for Groovin’ the Moo.
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Their partners-in-crime have been DZ Deathrays, Bleeding Knees Club, Remi, Dune Rats, Gold Fields, Step Panther, Hunting Grounds and plenty more laying waste to many a dressing room behind them. By 2013 their notoriety stretched much further than just Australian audiences, and they were personally asked to tour with Mumford & Sons’ Gentleman Of The Road tour both nationally and in the US and Canada, playing along side such acts at Edward Sharp & The Magic Zeros, Haim and of course Mumford & Sons.
The Yacht Club DJs’ mixtape mantlepiece ranges from – in chronological order – Kleptomania, Demons of Gymnastics, They Mostly Come At Night, last year’s Find Me A Macchiato Pronto, and March’s Oddity Number 5, which “doesn’t take long to hit its full stride, mixing the strangest of bedfellows from all walks of the musical kingdom to squeeze onto the one throne.” Earlier this year, Yacht Club DJs released their first EP of original material, No. 1 – mixed by Ballarat producer Woody Annison (Dune Rats, Children Collide, Hunting Grounds).
And of course, a Yacht Club DJs show would not be complete without on-stage nudity, crowd invasions, dancing on the decks and wild water sports, including riding the waves of the crowd on an inflatable boat. Don’t just take our word for it. Buy the ticket, take the final ride.
Yacht Club DJs Australian Tour 2014
Tickets On Sale 9am Friday August 29th
Fri 31 Oct Republic Bar Hobart TAS
www.moshtix.com.au // 1300 GET TIX (438 849)
Sat 1 Nov Republic Bar Hobart TAS
www.moshtix.com.au // 1300 GET TIX (438 849)
Fri 7 Nov The Northern Byron Bay NSW
www.moshtix.com.au // 1300 GET TIX (438 849)
Sat 8 Nov The Brightside Brisbane QLD
www.oztix.com.au // 1300 762 545
Fri 14 Nov The Cambridge Newcastle NSW
www.bigtix.com.au
Sat 15 Nov Oxford Art Factory Sydney NSW
www.moshtix.com.au // 1300 GET TIX (438 849)
Fri 21 Nov Barwon Club Geelong VIC
www.oztix.com.au // 1300 762 545
Sat 22 Nov The Corner Hotel Melbourne VIC
www.cornerhotel.com // 1300 724 867
Fri 28 Nov Jive Adelaide SA
www.moshtix.com.au // 1300 GET TIX (438 849)
Sat 29 Nov Lost at The Vic Darwin NT
Door Sales Only
Fri 5 Dec Amplifier Perth WA
www.oztix.com.au // 1300 762 545
Sat 6 Dec ‘Hooch’ at Toucan Club Mandurah WA
www.ticketbooth.com.au
Fri 19 Dec Karova Lounge Ballarat VIC
www.oztix.com.au // 1300 762 545
Sat 20 Dec Karova Lounge Ballarat VIC
www.oztix.com.au // 1300 762 545
