The Butterfly Effect to return to Townsville in October
Promising to deliver “110 per cent foot to the floor from the get go”, one of Australia’s most popular rock bands is set to return to Townsville.
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One of Australia’s best rock bands since the turn of the millenium, The Butterfly Effect will be making a triumphant return to Townsville in October — 14 years after their last album was released.
Formed in Brisbane in 1999, The Butterfly Effect (TBE) became a musical force to be reckoned with during the 2000s.
They dominated the ARIA charts with their 2006 album Imago reaching No. 2, and their 2008 album Final Conversation of Kings peaking at No. 3, with all three of their albums being certified “Gold”.
Their lead singer Clint Boge looks fondly back on those days when Townsville’s audiences turned out in their droves to hear the band deploy its unique take on alternative rock — or what he playfully refers to as the “distorted emotive” genre.
“Some of the best shows that we have ever played have been in Townsville,” Clint said.
“We took most of the footage for One Second of Insanity from playing at Bombay Rock.
“It’s one of my favourite places to play anywhere in the world and when they told me it was getting turned into a gym, I was really sad, because I just thought it was an incredible place to play music and to gather to listen to music.”
The dream turned into a nightmare for TBE during the three years they spent trying to write their fourth album with an unhealthy environment forcing Boge to quit the band.
“The toxicity in the relationship had just gotten to ridiculous levels, and our relationships had broken down to where I just didn’t want to be in the band room anymore,” he said.
“It wasn’t all out aggressive sort of behaviour, it was more just sort of silence.”
It was a chance meeting between Clint and TBE’s guitarist Kurt Goedhart at a Dead Letter Circus gig in 2017 that set the stage for the band’s resurrection.
“It was two different people talking to each other. We’d had children, gotten day jobs, we had to grow up and mature and enough water had flowed underneath that bridge that we could communicate like two guys that had shared quite a journey to that point,” he said.
“It has changed the landscape of how I feel and view the past. It’s so cathartic, and it’s helped me really just be able to quantify in my own mind, my behaviour, how I was reacting with others, but also forgive and let go of my behaviour and others.”
With their inspiration reinvigorated and the dynamic in the room “180 degrees back the other way”, the band has enjoyed a new lease on life in the studio, completing their aptly titled fourth album IV.
Due to be released on September 2, Clint said IV had at least two songs representative of each previous release — appealing to fans irrespective of when they got into the band.
“It wasn’t a conscious effort to do that ... it just evolved organically as we went through,” he said.
“We’re operating as four individuals, operating as one, and I think the music shows that.
“The new album is cohesive, the sequencing of the album sounds like a theatrical release.”
While the hard partying of yester-year may have been swapped for peppermint tea, Clint warned Townsville’s audiences to expect “heaps of energy” when they take the stage at the Mansfield Hotel’s renovated gig venue, The Warehouse on October 1.
“It’ll be just 110 per cent foot to the floor from the get go, ‘till the end,” he said.
“Gathering in a space with like minded people who are all there to have a great time, and that sense of community and connection is what we’ve all been missing, I think.”
Tickets for The Butterfly Effect’s national tour are on sale. Visit www.thebutterflyeffectband.com.au
The Butterfly Effect – IV – Tracklisting
• IV
• Dark Light
• Wave of Tides
• Nil By Mouth
• The Other Side
• So Tired
• Unbroken
• Great Heights
• Start Again
• Visiting Hours
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