Melbourne indie-rock legends EVEN, fresh from celebrating their best-ever ARIA Album Chart debut (#18) and a Double J Feature Album for their first-ever Double-LP REVERSE LIGHT YEARS, have today announced album launches in Melbourne to follow their recently announced launches in Sydney and Adelaide
The four Melbourne shows are the same shows that were originally slated for the Queen’s Birthday Weekend 2021, and which have been rescheduled a few times since then. The premise of the four-show run, originally consecutive shows in the North, South, East and West of the city, was to celebrate the great rock’n’roll city that is Melbourne; that premise remains the same, but now the group has a great new album to celebrate too. And they’ve added an extra show an hour out of town in Macedon.
Ahead of the album launches, EVEN return to the stage next week when they present XMAS EVEN over two nights at Melbourne’s sublime Brunswick Ballroom, with special guests Folk Bitch Trio (Wednesday December 22) and Nick Batterham (Thursday December 23). Both shows are on track to sell out.
“REVERSE LIGHT YEARS” ALBUM LAUNCHES
FRI JAN 7 – MARY’S UNDERGROUND, SYDNEY w/ T. Wilds
SAT JAN 8 – JIVE, ADELAIDE w/ Los Palms
TUE JAN 25 – LEADBEATTER HOTEL, RICHMOND , VIC w/ Meghan Maike
WED JAN 26 – NORTCOTE SOCIAL CLUB, NORTHCOTE , VIC (Matinee) w/ Fenn Wilson
THU JAN 27 – RAILWAY HOTEL, MACEDON, VIC w/ Moody Beaches
FRI JAN 28 THE ESPY (GERSWIN ROOM), ST KILDA VIC w/ Cahill Kelly
SAT JAN 29 – HOTEL WESTWOOD, FOOTSCRAY, VIC w/ Imperial Leather
XMAS EVEN 2021
@ THE BRUNSWICK BALLROOM, MELBOURNE
WED DEC 22 w/ Folk Bitch Trio
THUR DEC 23 w/ Nick Batterham
REVERSE LIGHT YEARS has been the subject of perhaps the best press of the band’s career – which is saying something for a band that has already been around for a quarter of century. Most notable was an effusive 5-star review by The Guardian’s Andrew Stafford.
“The Melbourne band’s eighth album is their best yet – a musical cornucopia of glam stompers, magnificent power pop and epics… This might be the best album in its field since Paul Kelly’s Gossip. ***** ” – Andrew Stafford, The Guardian
“This is music to get lost in…” – Martin Boulton, The Age
“If you like guitar-driven pop-rock in just about any form, you’ll almost certainly find something for you here … You could think of ‘Reverse Light Years’ as something of a sampling platter, but that doesn’t do justice to how harmoniously these songs live together. ” – Dan Condon, Double J/ABC.net.au
“’Reverse Light Years’ is immense in every sense – 17 tracks that sparkle and shine with varying influences sharing a common thread; an ear for melody and a knowing sense of fun and excess. Guitar-based jangle pop that flexes its muscles and strikes a pose.” – Arun Kendall, Backseat Mafia
“If you need any proof of Naylor’s guitar genius, all you have to do is listen to Even’s new album, ‘Reverse Light Years’.” – Jeff Jenkins, Rhythms