Julia Jacklin kicks off her PRE PLEASURE tour next month, fresh off wins at the 2022 ARIAs and Music Victoria awards, and featuring in over 30 ‘Best-of 2022’ album and song lists, including The Guardian, AV Club, NME, NPR, Stereogum, Pitchfork, MOJO, Uncut and Paste.
In an update to tour news today, it’s revealed Jacklin will be joined at all headline dates by one of Victoria’s most exciting live acts – Melbourne four-piece RVG.
Since releasing their debut record A Quality of Mercy back in 2017, RVG have quickly become one of Australia’s most beloved groups, nominated for a number of Music Victoria awards including Best Album and Best Band. Fans can expect a new album from the outfit in 2023, the band travelling to the UK last year to record their upcoming third effort with producer James Trevascus (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, PJ Harvey). It’s the follow-up to 2020’s Feral, which was featured in a number of best end-of-year lists including Double J, Les Inrocks, NME, The Guardian and KEXP.
JULIA JACKLIN
With special guests RVG
AUSTRALIAN TOUR
FEBRUARY/MARCH 2023
Saturday 25 February | Enmore Theatre | Sydney, NSW [SOLD OUT]
Sunday 26 February | Tivoli Theatre | Brisbane, QLD
Tuesday 28 February | Forum Theatre | Melbourne, VIC [SOLD OUT]
Wednesday 1 March | Forum Theatre | Melbourne, VIC [SOLD OUT]
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24 August 2022
With her highly anticipated third studio album, PRE PLEASURE, released this Friday, acclaimed singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin is delighted to announce that she will perform three special headline theatre shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in February 2023.
JULIA JACKLIN AUSTRALIAN TOUR
FEBRUARY 2023
Saturday 25 February | Enmore Theatre | Sydney, NSW
Sunday 26 February | Tivoli Theatre | Brisbane, QLD
Tuesday 28 February | Forum Theatre | Melbourne, VIC
Currently on tour in the US – part of a comprehensive US, UK and Europe trek which will see her performing in her biggest venues to date, including London’s Roundhouse and Brooklyn Steel in New York – Jacklin today also revealed another slice of her upcoming longplayer, with new track ‘Be Careful With Yourself’ out now.
A loose jam, ‘Be Careful With Yourself’ equates true love with the fear of losing it. It reinforces the album’s throughline – Julia Jacklin at her most authentic; an uncompromising and masterful lyricist, always willing to mine the depths of her own life experience, and singular in translating it into deeply personal, timeless songs.
The February tour dates will be Jacklin’s first Australian shows with her full band since 2020.
New album PRE PLEASURE, released by Liberation Records, is a masterclass in songwriting, cementing her status as one of the most important Australian talents of our time. Fans’ first taste of PRE PLEASURE came in the form of lead single ‘Lydia Wears A Cross’ (which the singer described as being “about a lot of things but mainly being a seven-year-old Jesus Christ Superstar fanatic attending Catholic school trying to figure out which way is up”), followed up by songs ‘I Was Neon’ and ‘Love, Try Not To Go’.
Jacklin recorded the 10-track PRE PLEASURE in Montreal, Canada, alongside producer Marcus Paquin (The National, The Weather Station), with collaborator Owen Pallett on string arrangements, which were recorded by an orchestra in Prague.
With over 200 million streams to her name to date, ever since the arrival of 2016 debut Don’t Let the Kids Win and 2018’s ARIA-nominated follow-up Crushing, the Melbourne-via-Blue Mountains singer-songwriter has carved out a reputation as a direct lyricist, wiling to excavate the parameters of intimacy and agency in songs by stark and raw, loose and playful. Earning accolades from Pitchfork, Uncut, the New York Times, i-D, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, NPR, BBC1, BBC 6, Sirius XMU global, Jacklin’s exquisite narratives and singular vision make her an artist not to be missed.
Don’t miss Julia Jacklin, live on stage in February 2023 – tickets on sale Monday 29 August.