PRESS RELEASE: 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 Friday3rd March, Melbourne Zoo on Saturday 4th March, Queensland Performing Arts Centre on Thursday 9th March and an appearance at GoldenPlains. Full ticket details below. A firm favourite with Australian audiences, Kurt Vile has packed out rooms across Australia (including Sydney Opera House earlier this year, withhis band The Violators). Since releasing his debut solo albumConstant Hitmaker in 2008, Kurt Vile has ascended to an elevated stature as oneof 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 youknow 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 everythingaround him, but turns out to be smart, observant, and low-key hilarious. So while his albums draw you in with the vibe—the impeccably recordedand 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 fortheir human qualities, the way they offer a manner of seeing the world, a glimpse at a perspective that feels both voyeuristic and easy to connectto 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 areference 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 livingroom 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 inthe 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 ingenerous 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 asfounding 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.” |
