Music News - Death Cab for Cutie Make NZ Return
06 October 2015 - 1 Comment
It took seven albums and 15 years for Washington alt-rockers Death Cab for Cutie to
make their first visit to New Zealand for one sold-out concert in March 2012.
Today the band announces their return to Wellington almost four years to the
day later, before heading north for their very first Auckland show.
The band’s eighth studio album KINTSUGI was released in March, reaching #1 on Billboard’s top rock albums chart. The
band has been touring to support the release ever since, with headline dates
across the US and Europe and festival appearances including Glastonbury and
Splendour in the Grass.
The band is now touring as a five-piece, with the addition of Dave Depper
(guitar/keyboards) and Zac Rae (keyboards) replacing founding member Chris
Walla on tour. Singer and guitarist Ben Gibbard believes it's the
best sounding live version of the band there has ever been.
“It's as much a testament to having a fifth person who can cover all of the
elements that we've been unable to cover with only four sets of hands,” Gibbard
says. “It's a much bigger sounding band than it was last time, and I'd like to
think it's for the best.”
Reviewers around the globe agree, with rave reviews for the live set that
includes not only music from KINTSUGI,
but the band’s whole back catalogue.
“Death Cab For Cutie put
their new five piece line-up through its paces, delivering a perfectly balanced
set of hits and more obscure jams from their catalogue” - Rolling
Stone Australia on DCFC’s Splendour in the Grass set.
“Death Cab for Cutie are
still rock stars, and among the last big, inventive guitar bands we have left.”- Los Angeles Times on DCFC’s July Hollywood Bowl concert.
After extensive touring across the globe to support the release of KINTSUGI, New Zealand
fans can be assured of seeing one of alternative music’s great bands at their
heady best.
Death
Cab for Cutie
Saturday 20 February | Opera House, Wellington
Tuesday 23 February | St James, Auckland
Tickets on sale at 9am on Friday 9 October via Ticketek.
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