[MUSIC NEWS] FLOODLIGHTS Announce Tour
Following a successful live stint at SXSW, Melbourne band Floodlights have today announced their Painting of My Time album tour. This expansive run of dates, their largest tour to date, will see them take off across the country, playing live from Castlemaine to Alice Springs, Margaret River to Adelaide, the Sunshine Coast to Sydney, and much more in between! Tickets on sale from 9:00am Monday, April 3.
“It feels surreal to be playing music all around the country for our first national tour. We are especially looking forward to heading back to the NT as well as doing our first headline shows in WA. We can’t wait to play these songs in places that have made us everything we are.” Louis Parsons.
Rolling Stone US were effusive in their praise of the band’s recent SXSW set, saying, “Fresh from a supporting slot on Pavement’s Australian tour, Floodlights do echo Stockton, California’s favorite sons in some telling ways. Specifically, the Melbourne-based indie-rockers seized upon any opportunity to ride circular rhythms and riffs into the twilight, not so much jamming as meditating on a phrase. Floodlights accentuate the painterly aspects of their sound with an auxiliary keyboard player, an addition that adds a slightly cinematic bent to their earthly vistas. Some squalls break the reverie, particularly a harmonica wail straight out of “Hand in Glove,” but Floodlights aren’t practitioners of noise; an increase in volume doesn’t ratchet up the tension, it adds a wave of intensity.”
Off the back of an extensive touring schedule, Floodlights have developed an organic nuance to their live shows. An experience tailored to each audience through extensions and interludes. A sense of storytelling that flows naturally from songwriting to the resonating finale of their live performances. Accompanied on stage by vocalist, trumpeter, and pianist, Sarah Hellyer, Floodlights push to the edges of their new sound.
PAINTING OF MY TIME – ALBUM TOUR DATES 2023
Tickets on sale 9:00am Monday, April 3
Friday, 26 May – The Bridge, Castlemaine, VIC – tickets HERE
Saturday, 27 May – Lion Arts, Adelaide, SA – tickets HERE
Friday, 2 June – Alice Springs Brewing, Alice Springs, NT – tickets HERE
Sunday, 4 June – Railway Club, Darwin, NT
Wednesday, 7 June – La La La’s, Wollongong, NSW – tickets HERE
Thursday, 8 June – VIVID, Sydney, NSW – tickets HERE
Friday, 9 June – The Corner, Melbourne, VIC – tickets HERE
Saturday, 10 June – Torquay Hotel, Torquay, VIC – tickets HERE
Sunday, 11 June – Volta, Ballarat, VIC – tickets HERE
Thursday, 15 June – The Zoo, Brisbane, QLD – tickets HERE
Friday, 16 June – Mos Desert House, Gold Coast, QLD – tickets HERE
Saturday, 17 June – Sol Bar, Sunshine Coast, QLD – tickets HERE
Sunday, 18 June – Bangalow Bowlo, Bangalow, NSW – tickets HERE
Friday, 23 June – Settlers, Margaret River, WA – tickets HERE
Saturday, 24 June – Badlands, Perth, WA – tickets HERE
Sunday, 25 June – Mojos, Fremantle, WA – tickets HERE
Festival dates:
August 31 – Sept 3 – End Of The Road (UK) – tickets HERE
