Music News - Marlon Williams returns with new single 'Vampire Again' and announces November tour dates
09 August 2017 - 0 Comments
“Channeling Roy Orbison at moments with a good sense of humor great
songs and one of the best voices at Newport, New Zealand's Marlon Williams.” – Bob Boilen NPR All Songs Considered
Marlon Williams returns with
Vampire
Again, his first new material since releasing his acclaimed debut
album in 2015 and touring relentlessly around the world, including performances
on CONAN, Later…with Jools Holland, opening for Bruce Springsteen and picking up both an ARIA Award nomination and two New
Zealand Music Awards.
Following Williams’ recent performances at the Newport
Folk Festival and Portland’s Pickathon, he’ll hit the road throughout the rest
of the month supporting City & Colour throughout before returning home to
New Zealand to play three intimate full band shows this November. These will be
Marlon William’s first headline shows in New Zealand since March 2016’s sold
out Powerstation show!
In creating
Vampire Again, Williams returned home to Lyttelton to re-engage in the
writing process and work again with producer Ben Edwards. Below he discusses the story behind the song. Watch the
accompanying video, directed by Williams in collaboration with UK
cinematographer Steve
Gullick. It’s a tragicomic vignette of
a societal outcast – misshapen, uncomfortable, humorous and a little touching.
Marlon says of new single Vampire Again –
The
germination of this song began in LA last year. It was indeed Halloween again,
and I was bored, having spent a week locked away in an Airbnb by the airport
trying in vain to write a song. Any song. Nothing came. So Halloween comes
around and I figure, "Hey, I'm gonna go out tonight. Alone. Comfortably
alone. Comfortably alone to see the LA Opera performing a new score to
accompany my fave scary flick Nosferatu at the Ace Hotel. I'm gonna dress as
the spindly creep himself. What's more, I'm gonna get super blazed before I go.
And be comfortably alone."
So, off I go, having
spent far too much on a last minute outfit, and step out of the Uber and onto
the red carpet with a nauseating air of self-confidence. "This is my
night. I am strong. I am human and it is my right to express myself how I see
fit." Turns out I was running late, and when I finally enter the theatre
everyone was already seated and the overture had begun. What's more, no one
else was dressed up. Well they were, but in tuxedos and lovely dresses. And
there was nowhere for stoned ole spindleboots to sit. So, I hunched and crawled
my way down the aisle and sat on the floor like it was the most reasonable
thing to do at an opera.
I made it through the
whole film and then calmly turned tail, satisfied that I'd had a good time and
sure that I'd heard whispers of "bad-ass" as I left the building. I'd
like to believe that this was, at least in part, the catalyst for a whole new
period in my life and my art. But that's bullsh*t.
Anyway, here it is,
my own demented tale of New Age self-affirmation; “Vampire Again.”
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Marlon Williams New Zealand Tour Dates:
Presented by Heartstop Music and Eccles Entertainment
Ticketmaster members pre-sale commences TODAY (Wed 9 Aug) at 12.00PM
NZST for 24 hours or until pre-sale allocation is exhausted.
General public tickets on sale from Ticketmaster at 12.00PM
NZST on Fri 11 Aug.
Fri 10 Nov - Auckland, Point Chevalier RSA
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Sat 11 Nov- Wellington, San Fran
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Sun 12 Nov- Christchurch, Blue Smoke
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