Last week the news came down that ’90s Alt Rock super heroes, Veruca Salt, had reformed and put Australia on their tour calendar for this September. This news was met with an absolute fan frenzy with thousands of people expressing pure glee via the official Event Page at the prospect of catching the Volcano Girls live.
Evidence of this fact is in the ticket sales. Melbourne’s Corner Hotel show on Friday, September 26 SOLD OUT on it’s first day and sales for all the other dates are looking very healthy with Sold Out notices being prepared to go up in the very near future.
Born in Chicago in 1993 out of singer-songwriter-guitarists Louise Post and Nina Gordon’s desire for a dreamy-grunge band with influences like Big Star, My Bloody Valentine and the Pixies, Veruca Salt (rounded out by Steve Lack and Jim Shapiro) soon made the transition from cutesy pop upstarts to big league wet dream rock queens and became one of the most important bands of the ’90s in the process. They released two new songs on Record Store Day 2014, ‘It’s Holy’ and ‘The Museum of Broken Relationships’ that see the band return to the raw-edged sinister sweetness of their early days.
This full-fledged comeback will see their biggest hits ‘Seether’ and ‘Volcano Girls’ played alongside fan favourites like ‘Shutterbug’, ‘All Hail Me’, ‘Born Entertainer’, ‘Officially Dead’ in all their angst-ridden, harmonious glory!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3THMFhWiIlo
TOUR DATES
Wednesday, September 24: Brisbane – Zoo
Thursday, September 25: Adelaide – The Gov
Friday, September 26: Melbourne – Corner Hotel – SOLD OUT!
Saturday, September 27: Sydney, Factory Theatre
Monday, September 29: Perth – Rosemount Hotel