City and Colour frontman Dallas Green shares he has reignited his side project with Pink
Music icon Pink has reportedly joined forces with an alternative rock legend in a reunion that will excite long-time fans.
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Alternative rock legend Dallas Green has hinted his next record will reunite him with pop star Pink for their folk side project You + Me.
The Canadian musician, who counts Australia as his second home and is back touring here with his band City and Colour, revealed the pair have finished the long-awaited follow-up, a decade after the release of their hit 2014 debut record Rose Ave.
That record peaked at No.2 on the Australian charts on its release, debuted at No.1 in Canada and reached No.4 in the US.
Green said the pair secretly got back in the studio in April last year after Pink wound up her record-breaking Summer Carnival stadium tour of Australia.
“We started writing and recording some songs in 2018 and recorded some more in 2022 and in April last year, we wrapped it up,” he said.
“I would hope that it comes out sooner than later but there’s a lot going on; she’s just finished the feat of doing back to back stadium tours and I’m just about to finish two and a half years of touring myself.”
The prolific singer and songwriter, who is also a regular visitor here with his punk band Alexisonfire, closes an emotional chapter in his career with this Australian tour.
The shows feature many of the songs from his 2023 grief record The Love Still Held Me Near, written in the wake of the death of his producer Karl Bareham in a scuba diving accident off Byron Bay in 2019.
He opened the tour on Tuesday at Brisbane’s Riverstage, the same stage he performed on just days after his friend's tragic death.
Heartwrenching songs from the record including the opener After Disaster, Meant To Be and Hard, Hard Time featured in his opening night set.
“I haven’t been back to that stage where I played the day after it happened and I’m assuming there will be some emotional weight there,” he said.
“To be honest with you, it has been so beautiful to be able to travel around the world and sing these songs and converse with people about their experiences and how the music has helped them through their own versions of what I was going through.
“It’s been five years since we lost Karl so now for me it’s transitioned now into this celebration (of him).”
Green also revealed he snuck into Melbourne several days before the tour, which also features American blues rockers Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, to work with acclaimed Australian artist Tash Sultana.
The Australian multi-instrumentalist is a huge fan of Green’s work and was keen to collaborate with him for their third record.
“It came out of nowhere a month or two ago when Tash’s management contacted mine saying they knew I was coming and would I like to collaborate on something,” he said.
“I’d never met Tash before, obviously I was aware of them, so we talked on the phone to see what the vibe was and what they were looking for, and Tash told me they had been listening to me since high school; I’m 15 years older than them.
“They had a song they wanted me to possibly help finish, so I came out early and went to the studio for two days and it was amazing, a lot of fun.
“The only other time when someone has actively asked me to do that is dear Alicia (P!nk).”
City and Colour’s tour with Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats continues to Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on January 16, Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl on January 18, AEC Theatre, Adelaide on January 20 and Red Hill Auditorium, Perth on January 23.
He returns to Australia in March for shows with Alexisonfire.
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