Laneway Festival is thrilled to announce that D.D Dumbo a.k.a Castlemaine resident Oliver Hugh Perry will be performing at the 2017 Laneway Festival (all Australian dates except Adelaide (TBC)).
D.D Dumbo was recently announced as the winner of triple j’s J Award for Australian Album of the Year for his remarkable debut Utopia Defeated. That album – which includes killer singles ‘Satan’, ‘Walrus’ and ‘Brother’ – was featured on RRR, FBi and RTR, featured as Album of The Day on BBC 6 Music, and scored 4 and 5 star reviews from local and international press.
D.D Dumbo has been on Laneway’s wish-list since 2013, when he released his self-recorded debut EP Tropical Oceans. Led by the spooky strut of the title-track, the lo-fi four song-set of blues- laced, deconstructed pop, announced Perry as an exciting newcomer fluent in a language all his own. He quickly gained a reputation as a formidable live act, playing international festivals including Latitude and Pitchfork Paris and touring Australia and internationally with the likes of Tame Impala, Courtney Barnett, Beirut, St Vincent and others.
These will be D.D Dumbo’s first local shows in almost two years and we are so excited to have him play at Laneway 2017.
ST. JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL 2017
Saturday 21 January
SINGAPORE – THE MEADOW, GARDENS BY THE BAY
Thursday 26 January
BRISBANE – BRISBANE SHOWGROUNDS, BOWEN HILLS (16+)
Saturday 28 January
MELBOURNE – FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE (FCAC) AND THE RIVER’S EDGE
Monday 30 January
AUCKLAND – IT’S A SECRET, WATCH THIS SPACE!
Friday 3 February
ADELAIDE – HART’S MILL, PORT ADELAIDE (16+)
Saturday 4 February
SYDNEY – SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (SCA), ROZELLE
Sunday 5 February
FREMANTLE – ESPLANADE RESERVE AND WEST END