Music News - Gang Of Four Announce Australasian Tour
12 February 2016 - 0 Comments
Post-punk
legends GANG OF FOUR announce
their return to Australia and New Zealand this April.
Nearly 30 years after forming in Leeds, Gang of Four remain as fiercely
relevant as ever and determined to show off 2015’s album, the ode to a
dystopian future What
Happens Next, an instant classic.
Winding up their Australasian dates in Auckland on Wednesday,
April 27, this is 2016s premier punk moment.
Tickets go on sale at midday Friday, February 19.
My Live Nation members can be among the first to secure tickets
during the pre-sale from 10am Monday February 15 until 10am Wednesday
February 17.
For complete tour and ticketing details, visit: livenation.co.nz.
Gang of Four initially existed, with various personnel changes,
between 1977 and 1983. Emerging with debut album Entertainment! the band
felt like a blast of ice-cold water, radical in both form and content. They
were committed foes of received wisdom, subjecting traditional rock ‘n’ roll
values – love, sex, community, spontaneity — to ruthless scrutiny while
making music every bit as physically exciting as what they
were challenging.
Entertainment! was
voted the eighth best album of the 1970s by Pitchfork and one of the best of all-time by Rolling
Stone (plus a personal favourite of Kurt Cobain). Not
to mention The Gang of Four’s recordings and incendiary live
performances have been hugely influential, and have left their mark on R.E.M.,
Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Minutemen; Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana
and Massive Attack; Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party and LCD Soundsystem.
As a result, Gang of Four was always bigger than the original line-up who
recorded the first two albums. Founding guitarist and songwriter Andy Gill
has constructed a new Gang of Four touring and recording together since
2013: John “Gaoler” Sterry on vocals, Thomas McNiece on bass and Jonny Finnigan
on drums.
What Happens Next,
the title of Gang of Four’s thrilling and unsettling ninth album, refers both
to the world outside and the band itself: an emphatic commitment to the
future. The band is joined by a who’s who of modern day creative stars on What Happens Next including Alison Mosshart of the Kills and the Dead Weather, Gail Ann Dorsey,
Robbie Furze of the Big Pink, and German musician and actor
Herbert Grönemeyer.
POWERSTATION, AUCKLAND
WEDNESDAY APRIL 27
TICKETS ON SALE 12PM
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19
My Live Nation & ticket agent pre-sales: 10am February 15 until 10am
February 17
For complete tour and ticket information, visit:
http://www.gangoffour.co.uk/ and http://www.livenation.co.nz/
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