The November–December run opens with a one-off orchestral show in Hobart and finishes in the Sup at Meredith Festival.
The Dandy Warhols are heading back to Australia and New Zealand this November and December, bookending the run with two pretty different nights. The Pin Ups tour opens on 24 November at Hobart’s Odeon Theatre, where the band plays a one-off show with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and finishes in mid-December at Meredith Festival.
The Dandy Warhols Australian and NZ tour dates
- Tue 24 Nov – Odeon Theatre, Hobart (with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra)
- Fri 27 Nov – Powerstation, Auckland
- Sat 28 Nov – Meow Nui, Wellington
- Tue 1 Dec – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
- Fri 4 Dec – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
- Sat 5 Dec – Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide
- Tue 8 Dec – Metropolis, Fremantle
- Thu 10 Dec – Palais Theatre, Melbourne
- Fri 11 Dec – Meredith Festival, VIC
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The Hobart date reworks songs from the band’s catalogue into an orchestral setting, a concept they’ve played twice with the Oregon Symphony but never brought here until now.
“This one starts in Tasmania with the Symphony there, that will be a mind expanding trip,” says frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor. “Then we hit all our favourite cities, or most of them, including some New Zealand shows. Then we end at Meredith festival, which we are told repeatedly is the coolest.” Between those two nights the band returns to its usual live show across Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Fremantle and Melbourne.
The run marks Pin Ups, the covers album released earlier this year. It gathers their versions of songs by The Beatles, The Byrds, The Clash, Bob Dylan, The Cure, Gang of Four, The Cramps, The Cult, The Damned and Marilyn Manson, pulled together from tribute albums, B-sides, bonus tracks and unreleased recordings from across their career. “Nearly every band we cover on here are friends of ours or artists we have had a meaningful experience with,” Taylor-Taylor says.
The Portland band’s relationship with Australia goes back to their first visit in 1998, and three decades on they’ve built one of alt-rock’s more distinctive catalogues, blending psych-rock, shoegaze and synth-pop behind tracks like “Bohemian Like You”, “We Used to Be Friends” and “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth”. Their tangled history with The Brian Jonestown Massacre reached a wider audience through the documentary Dig!.
Tickets go on sale Tuesday 25 August at 10am AEST, with a Spotify presale from 21 August and a promoter presale from 24 August.
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