Music News - The War On Drugs announce first New Zealand tour since 2018
22 May 2023 - 0 Comments
Live Nation is thrilled to announce the return of The War On Drugs to Australia and New Zealand for the first time since 2018. With special guests Spoon, plus Indigo Sparke, the band will tour the region in December 2023 in support of I Don’t Live Here Anymore, praised by GQ as “the band’s clearest, most vibrant, and upbeat.” Presented in partnership with double j (AU), Radio Hauraki and 95bFM (NZ), tickets for all shows go on sale at 1pm Friday 26 May from livenation.co.nz. My Live Nation members can access presale 12pm Thursday 25 May to 12pm Friday 26 May.
Throughout the tour, The War On Drugs will play some of Australia and New Zealand’s finest venues, including Wellington’s Anderson Park, Auckland’s Spark Arena, the Forecourt of the iconic Sydney Opera House, Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Brisbane’s Riverstage, and Perth’s stunning Kings Park and Botanic Garden.
Led by Adam Granduciel, the Grammy-Award winning band has steadily emerged as one of this century’s great rock and roll synthesists, removing the gaps between the underground and the mainstream, between the obtuse and the anthemic, making records that wrestle a fractured past into a unified and engrossing present. The New Yorker called them “the best American ‘rock’ band of this decade” in support of 2017’s A Deeper Understanding while Stereogum hailed The War On Drugs as “one of the greatest American bands of their generation” following the release of I Don’t Live Here Anymore. It landed on numerous 2021 best albums of the year lists and garnered a second Grammy Award nomination (Best Rock Song) and Brit Award nomination.
Throughout their career, The War On Drugs has steadily evolved into one of rock’s most compelling live acts. “It’s hard to imagine a musical experience that’s more enveloping and uplifting” (Consequence).
Joining The War On Drugs for the tour will be one of rock's most acclaimed acts, Spoon. Austin’s most esteemed rock ambassadors have released ten albums to date, including a string of five straight top 10 records: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007), Transference (2010), They Want My Soul (2014), Hot Thoughts (2017), and Lucifer on the Sofa (2022). Hailed by TIME as “one of the greatest American rock bands”, Spoon topped Metacritic’s chart as the single most critically acclaimed band of the aughts.
Last here in 2017, Spoon will tour both countries for the first time since the release of their Grammy nominated tenth album Lucifer On The Sofa. More than two decades into their career, Spoon returned with this loud, low-down, melodious rock record which The Guardian called ‘Timeless Perfection’ and Rolling Stone said, ‘Might Be Spoon’s Best Record Ever’.
Opening for all shows will be Australian singer songwriter Indigo Sparke.
THE WAR ON DRUGS
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS SPOON
PLUS INDIGO SPARKE
1 December @ Anderson Park, Wellington
2 December @ Spark Arena, Auckland
For complete tour and ticket information
visit: livenation.com.au or livenation.co.nz
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