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Sat 23 Jul, 2016 Forum Melbourne, Melbourne - 18+
Tue 26 Jul, 2016 Enmore Theatre, Sydney - All Ages
Thu 28 Jul, 2016 Powerstation, Auckland - 18+
Fri 29 Jul, 2016 Shed 6, Wellington - All Ages

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Cable Ties

Cable Ties

AUSTRALIAN SHOWS ONLY
Frenetic Melbourne three-piece Cable Ties take three-minute punk burners and stretch them past breaking point: check out their recent live to air performance of ‘Cultural Capital’ for Triple R here, or kicking out ‘The Producer’ at PBS here.  After years of playing in local punk bands, Shauna Boyle (drums) and Jenny McKechnie (guitar/vocals) teamed up with Graveyard radio host Nick Brown (bass) and the result is a tense, fierce rock ‘n’ roll trio!


The Beths

The Beths

AUCKLAND SHOW ONLY
THE BETHS are an indie power pop four piece from Auckland featuring members Elizabeth Stokes, Jonathan Pearce, Benjamin Sinclair and Ivan Luketina-Johnston.

Their debut five-song EP Warm Blood earlier this year and they are now gearing up to release a video for brand new single, Lying in the Sun.

Debut single ‘Whatever’ has had strong airplay amongst the bNet and alt radio stations throughout NZ. The Beths are currently working on material for their debut album.

With DJ Slightly-Delic Sound System spinning tunes on the night. 


HEX

HEX

WELLINGTON SHOW ONLY
HEX is the heavy triumvirate of Liz Mathews (Evil, The Hairdos) and GG and Kiki Van Newtown (Newtown, Lazy Suzy, Pseudorobustus). Birthed from a musical lineage that spans classical to folk to punk to metal, these three sisters reflect the chaos approaching post-capitalism, with heavy drums underpinning intricate guitar riffs and dual vocals.  HEX has been described as “bridging the gap between Delta 5 and Iron Maiden” with their distinctive variety of lofi metal. 

Their debut EP ‘Calling to the Universe’ was released in May, and HEX is currently working on a full length record set for release on vinyl in early 2017.     

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THE KILLS return to NZ this July for their first shows in seven years!

20 May 2016

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MELBOURNE:
8:00pm | Doors Open
8:30pm | Support
9:45pm | The Kills


SYDNEY:
7:15pm | Doors Open
8:00pm | Support
9:15pm | The Kills


* Please note stage times are a guide only and subject to change without notice

RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND – TOURING THIS JULY

They’re the most fearless duo in rock & roll: enigmatic, multi-faceted, minimalist. Jamie Hince (guitar/vox, hails from England) and Alison Mosshart (vocals, USA born and bred) are The Kills, and Frontier Touring is thrilled to announce their long-awaited return to Australia and New Zealand this July.

With their highly anticipated fifth album, Ash & Ice, set for release on Friday 3 June (via Domino Recording Co), The Kills will perform two headline dates in Australia – Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on Saturday 23 July, and Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Tuesday 26 July and two New Zealand headline shows – Auckland’s Powerstation on Thursday 28 July and Wellington’s Shed 6 on Friday 29 July. The headline dates follow the band’s appearance at Byron Bay’s sold-out Splendour In The Grass festival. With the band’s 2011 Australian tour selling out across three dates, don’t delay in grabbing your ticket this visit!

‘The effortless cool of Allison Mosshart and Jamie Hince is never-ending. The duo’s newest single, “Doing It To Death”, doesn’t skip a beat from band’s previous catalog of grit-grinding musical bliss.’ – Monster Children

‘Nothing says a nightcap like the electronic-infused guitars of The Kills. Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart possess onstage chemistry so rare that seeing it in the flesh is a legitimate thrill’ – SPIN @ SXSW 2016

‘Allison Mosshart does frantic laps around the stage as Jamie Hince delivers snarling riff after riff, smacking his poor guitar with waves of crunched reverb knocking back the front row. It’s dangerous, loud and exciting, just as rock ‘n’ roll should be.’ – Clashmusic.com

With single ‘Doing It To Death’ out now – watch the clip’s sexy graveyard parade – Ash & Ice was recorded in Hince’s rented Los Angeles home and at New York City’s infamous Electric Lady Studios, produced by Hince and John O'Mahoney (Metric, The Cribs). It’s the band’s first album in five  years, and their fifth longplayer.

From the raw spareness of 2003 debut album Keep On Your Mean Side (which introduced us with tracks like ‘Fried My Little Brains’) to 2005’s unwavering No Wow (watch the title track here), 2008’s Midnight Boom (which saw singles like ‘U R A Fever’) and 2011’s Blood Pressures (‘Satellite’ and ‘Future Starts Slow’), The Kills bristle with tension, anxiety, sex, and unstudied cool. The 13-track Ash & Ice is another excellent statement – this time laid down under California’s blue sky and palm trees, quite the change from the band’s usual recording space at Key Club Studio in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

“I wanted there to be more soul, more groove in it," Hince told the Village Voice in a recent interview (read here) of the journey to Ash & Ice. To begin, Hince found himself with an unexpected challenge: six surgeries, a tendon transplant, and 18 months of rehab to heal a broken finger, following a car door slam. “He couldn’t play guitar,” Mosshart recalls of her bandmate, who “began buying all these funny instruments that you would only need one hand to play.” It was during this period of recovery that Hince first began mapping out songs, including ‘Let It Begin’.

He also embarked on a 9,650km train trip – solo – on the Trans-Siberian Express, where ‘Siberian Nights’ and other songs were born. “I wanted to go away somewhere on my own and find out what I had in me,” Hince says. “I took my guitar, all my notebooks and a camera. I had this vision of the record being this icy, paranoid record as I was travelling through Siberia. But the rest of the songs are more about the emotion, the struggle.”

Mosshart meanwhile was busy relocating to Nashville, recording, and on the road touring with The Dead Weather – her explosive side project with Jack White. Also an acclaimed visual artist, in 2015 she staged her first solo show, ‘Fire Power’, at New York’s Joseph Gross Gallery, featuring painting, drawing, mixed media and tapestries. Constantly writing for The Kills since their last release, Mosshart was determined the pair would head in a brand new direction. “If Ash & Ice were a painting, it would be incredibly complex. It would be one that looked like it had been painted over and over and over and over. It would be so thick off the wall, it would be coming through the frame.” 

Currently on tour in the US and with festival dates locked in the world over, these exclusive headline shows are not to be missed and are The Kills’ first Australian visit in five years and New Zealand visit in seven years. Don’t delay – these shows will sell out!


TOUR DATES:

Saturday 23 July – Forum Theatre, Melbourne VIC (18+)
Tuesday 26 July – Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW (All Ages)
Thursday 28 July – Powerstation, Auckland NZ (18+)
Friday 29 July – Shed 6, Wellington NZ (All Ages)

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