Band behind enormous Aussie hit announce tour Down Under
The British band responsible for one of the biggest songs of the last decade has just announced a string of shows.
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Glass Animals – the band behind one of the top 10 biggest songs of all time in Australia – is coming Down Under.
The Grammy-nominated indie rock British band have announced three shows across Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in late November, to coincide with the release of their new studio album, I Love You So F***ing Much.
Glass Animals will kick off their run of Aussie shows at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl on November 20, before heading up north on November 22 to play the Riverstage in Brisbane and finishing up with a show in the Sydney Opera House Forecourt on November 26.
The fourth album is the follow-up to the ARIA Gold-certified Dreamland in 2020, which sold over 12 million copies worldwide and featured record-breaking track Heat Waves, which became the biggest international hit from a British band in almost three decades.
The song also topped the 2020 Triple J Hottest 100 list – the first UK act to do so in 11 years.
“It’s absolutely bonkers,” frontman Dave Bayley said in 2021 of the experimental pop song becoming a mainstream hit during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns.
“It’s a very personal song, I wrote it alone in a room late at night, it feels strange so many people have heard it. The song is about missing people and not being able to see them for one reason or another.
“In this case it’s because that person has passed away. But the lyrics are quite subtle, everyone’s missing someone right now, I think. And it’s made it across to Australia when we haven’t been able to.”
Tickets for Glass Animals’ Australian shows will go on sale Friday, July 5 at 10am via LiveNation.
Originally published as Band behind enormous Aussie hit announce tour Down Under
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