Frontier Touring wish to advise that Wolf Alice’s Brisbane and Auckland shows have been rescheduled to accommodate the band’s attendance at the 2018 Hyundai Mercury Prize award ceremony in London, following news that their album Visions Of A Life has been shortlisted for Album Of The Year.
“We’re really sorry, but we had to reshuffle a couple of dates in Brisbane and New Zealand on our upcoming tour. We hope you can all still come and we are more than excited to be there. All original tickets are still valid. xxxx”
Wolf Alice have been shortlisted for the Mercury Prize Album Of The Year for the second time, for their acclaimed sophomore album Visions Of A Life. After debuting at #2 in the UK charts, the album – which features the songs ‘Yuk Foo’, ‘Beautifully Unconventional’, ‘Don’t Delete The Kisses’, ‘Formidable Cool’ and ‘Space & Time’ – was named in the top three best albums of 2017 by NME, Q and Drowned in Sound, and led to a BRIT Award nomination for Best British Group, as well as two NME Award nominations.
Wolf Alice’s Brisbane show will now take place at Eatons Hill Hotel on Friday 28 September (prev. The Tivoli, Sat 22 Sep), while their Auckland show will now take place on Sunday 30 September (prev. Thu 20 Sep) at the originally announced venue, Powerstation.
Sunday 23 September | Metro Theatre | Sydney, NSW
Tuesday 25 September | Corner Hotel | Melbourne, VIC [SOLD OUT]
Wednesday 26 September | Corner Hotel | Melbourne, VIC
Friday 28 September | Eatons Hill Hotel | Brisbane, QLD
Sunday 30 September | Powerstation | Auckland, NZ
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‘Wolf Alice are not just another indie band’. NME’s statement about the North London quartet is a simple one, but it captures the powerful waves they’re making both in studio and live. Frontier Touring are thrilled to announce that they will return to Australia and New Zealand this September to perform headline shows with plenty of bite!
The band’s roots go back to 2010, when vocalist Ellie Roswell and guitarist Joff Oddie came together to make tunes inflected with a mix of rock, folk, grunge and shoegaze. Joel Amey (drums) and Theo Ellis (bassist) completed the group a few years later, culminating in the release of their debut EP Blush.
That momentum continued with the group’s debut album My Love is Cool (2015), a critical and commercial success. The gold-certified release hit #2 on the UK charts, garnered multiple nominations from the likes of the Mercury Prize and the Grammys, and led to the band claiming the NME Award for Best Live Band.
Last year’s second record Visions of a Life, recorded in Los Angeles, took things to new heights on stellar tracks like the slow-burning ‘Don’t Delete The Kisses’, and ‘Beautifully Unconventional’ with its beast of a groove. Fittingly describing the album but also apt for the band’s power onstage, Rolling Stone asserted ‘The stakes are high, and the payoffs are real.’
Live is where Wolf Alice’s combination of bite and beauty is most strongly felt. The powerhouse quartet have dominated their own headline shows, supported Queens Of The Stone Age in the US, and will support both Liam Gallagher in the UK and the Foo Fighters in Europe in the coming months, before embarking on a string of northern summer festivals.
They’ve found something of another home down here, smashing Falls Festival in 2014, Splendour the following year – including a pair of rip-roaring Sydney and Melbourne sideshows – and 2018’s Laneway.
In amongst all this, Wolf Alice have contributed to iconic soundtracks like 2016’s Ghostbusters and T2 Trainspotting. If there’s a soundtrack though that’s simple yet dynamic, brash yet beautiful, it’s the one that the band have been carving out for themselves. You won’t want to miss out on these guys when they hit our shores again for this latest headline run!
WOLF ALICE
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
SEPTEMBER 2018
Sunday 23 September | Metro Theatre | Sydney, NSW
Tuesday 25 September | Corner Hotel | Melbourne, VIC [SOLD OUT]
Wednesday 26 September | Corner Hotel | Melbourne, VIC
Friday 28 September | Eatons Hill Hotel | Brisbane, QLD
Sunday 30 September | Powerstation | Auckland, NZ