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BACK YOURSELF NZ TOUR SEPTEMBER 2017 DATES

Fri 08 September - AUCKLAND - Golden Dawn:  Tavern of Power
Sat 09 September - LEIGH - Sawmill Cafe
Sun 10 September - TITIRANGI - The Refreshment Room
Thu 14 September - HAMILTON - Nivara Lounge
Fri 15 September - GISBORNE - Dome Cinema
Sun 17 September - ROTORUA - The Rogue Stage (Princes Gate)
Thu 21 September - QUEENSTOWN - Sherwood
Fri 22 September - OAMARU - Grainstore
Sat 23 September - DUNEDIN - Dog With Two Tails
Sun 24 September - CHRISTCHURCH - Blue Smoke*
Wed 27 September - ONEKAKA - Mussel Inn*
Thu 28 September - WELLINGTON - Meow

* with Flora Knight & Sean Donald

BEN SALTER & BACK YOURSELF:  A PRIMER

- Back Yourself is Ben Salter’s third solo album, following 2011’s The Cat and 2015’s The Stars My Destination. It is his second album to be released through ABC Music, due for release on September 4, 2017.

- Key tracks: Isolationism, The First Sign of Madness, Back Yourself, End Of Days.

- The album was made over a 12 month period, predominantly with producer Chris Townend (Augie March, Tim Finn, Die! Die! Die!, Portishead, Daniel Johns) at his White Light studio, located on the edge of Tasmania’s Huon Valley.

- Back Yourself features guest appearances by well known Australian guitarist and songwriter Jeff Lang, Peter “Blackie” Black of underground legends The Hard-Ons, and Something for Kate drummer Clint Hyndman.

- Melbourne-based jazz saxophone virtuoso Julien Wilson and his Bee for Chicken Quartet act as the backing band on two tracks, The First Sign Of Madness and I Need You. Wilson has played on all three of Salter’s albums.

- Opening track Where Corals Lie is an interpretation of a piece by English classical composer Edward Elgar, which was itself an adaptation of a poem by minor English poet Richard Garnett.  It was originally performed in 1899.

- Final track End Of Days was written in Lyttelton with Marlon Williams on Salter’s last NZ tour in February this year, whilst Isolationism was written with long time Gin Club collaborator Conor Macdonald.

- Back Yourself continues some of Salter’s long held thematic preoccupations - love, dreams, armageddon, video games; the ocean and the stars; the intersection of myth and science; and the nature of reality itself.

BEN SALTER

- A 20 year veteran of the Australian music scene, Salter has released more than 20 albums and EPs in a diverse array of styles through bands such as ‘boozegrass’ super group and three-time ARIA award nominees The Wilson Pickers; nine piece folk / country / rock / everything collective The Gin Club; and heavy rockers Giants of Science; as well as numerous side projects including The Young Liberals, Megafauna, Anigozanthos, Immaculate CV and most recently post punk trio Hownowmer.

- Salter has collaborated with some of the biggest and most respected names in the Australian music industry including Tim Rogers (You Am I), Mick Thomas (Weddings Parties, Anything), Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger) and Gareth Liddiard (The Drones)

- This tour continues Salter’s fascination with NZ, being his fourth trip across the Tasman in three years following successful tours with fellow Australian songwriter Dan Kelly in 2016, and local hero Tourettes (aka Dominic Hoey) in 2015.

- A full time musician, Salter performs relentlessly. He has toured across Europe and the UK several times, Over the past 12 months he has played more than 150 shows taking in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii and Mexico, and a sold out show at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria.

LINKS

OFFICIAL WEBSITE
FACEBOOK
TWITTER
YOUTUBE
BANDCAMP
SOUNDCLOUD

CLIPS

 Boat Dreams - Official Video
Parrot Day - Live on Litium
West End Girls - Friend of a Friend
 The Cat - Balcony TV
 Moving with Kimbra - Rockwiz
 The Stars My Destination - Official Video

OTHER PROJECTS

The Wilson Pickers
The Gin Club
Giants of Science
Hownowmer
The Young Liberals
Anigazanthos

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