Mistletone and Remote Control are thrilled to announce the return of Kurt Vile to Australia for his debut solo tour. This solo tour will include stops at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo on Friday 3rd March, Melbourne Zoo on Saturday 4th March, Queensland Performing Arts Centre on Thursday 9th March and an appearance at Golden Plains.
A firm favourite with Australian audiences, Kurt Vile has packed out rooms across Australia (including Sydney Opera House earlier this year, with his band The Violators). Since releasing his debut solo album Constant Hitmaker in 2008, Kurt Vile has ascended to an elevated stature as one of the most accomplished and charismatic songwriters of our time.
Kurt Vile’s latest album b’lieve i’m goin down…, released last year via Matador / Remote Control, won universal acclaim; The AV Club called “the purest distillation of Vile’s idiosyncratic style to date”, and Pitchfork bestowed it Best New Music, noting: “Kurt Vile has a persona, and you know him by now: He is the weird quiet kid in the corner, the one who seems at first lost in his own world and disconnected from everything around him, but turns out to be smart, observant, and low-key hilarious. So while his albums draw you in with the vibe—the impeccably recorded and mixed songs that shuffle bits of folk, new wave, or country in the mix but are always squarely down-the-middle rock—you return to them for their human qualities, the way they offer a manner of seeing the world, a glimpse at a perspective that feels both voyeuristic and easy to connect to your own life.”
Last year, Kurt told Rolling Stone that he wanted b’lieve i’m goin down… “to sound like it’s on my couch”, citing Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush as a reference point. “Not in a lo-fi way,” he explained, “just more unguarded and vulnerable. I wanted it to feel like I was on a couch in a familiar living room even if I was somewhere else. To me, it’s sort of that home vibe that I had to capture somehow…to make it sound like it was played there in the room.”
This intimate and immediate power that Kurt Vile’s songs possess is one of the qualities that KV fans hold dear to their hearts, and it will be in generous supply on this rare and auspicious occasion of a Kurt Vile solo tour.
Mick Turner will be opening for his friend Kurt Vile at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, Melbourne Zoo and Queensland Performing Arts Centre, performing his highly acclaimed solo work. He has had a dynamic and celebrated career as founding member of Dirty Three and simultaneously with his solo project, releasing four LPs on the iconic US label Drag City (Bill Callahan, Joanna Newsom, Ty Segall) with The Australian labelling him “one of Australia’s most distinctive guitarists.”
Kurt Vile – Solo Australian Tour 2017
Friday 3rd March – Twilight at Taronga Zoo, Sydney
Saturday 4th March – Zoo Twilights at Melbourne Zoo, Melbourne
Thursday 9th March – Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane
Saturday 11th – Monday 13th March – Golden Plains