Splendour Sideshows: second Midlake show for Melbourne

14 May 2010 by Soulshine News

Testament to their passionate fan base, tickets to Midlake's Melbourne show on Monday 2nd August at Prince of Wales are selling rapidly. As a result, the band have announced a second show - Sunday August 1 also at Prince of Wales. Tickets on sale 9am AEST Thursday May 13, with limited tickets still remaining for the Monday show.

One of America’s most celebrated acts of recent times, Midlake, has just delivered their extraordinary third album “The Courage of Others”, and will soon embark on their second Australian tour.

Existing outside the plane of trends and time “The Courage of Others” is a truly committed statement to artistic independence. It is Midlake’s most complete and beautiful body of work yet, best appreciated as a whole in the old-fashioned sense of what an album should be. Sharing the same gorgeously warm, analogue electro-acoustic template as its much revered predecessor, “The Trials of Van Occupanther” , the new album is definitely a slower, darker, eerier and dreamier, tinged with late 60s/early 70s British folk nuances. Looms of textured keyboards, flute, guitars and voice are woven into broad cloaks of sound, all riding the sound of songwriter Tim Smith’s sweeping vocals.

Midlake will play shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth this July and August.

MIDLAKE
with special guests Big Scary

Tickets for second Melbourne show on sale 9am AEST Thursday May 13. All other shows on sale now.

Saturday July 31 - Sydney
Metro Theatre. Tickets from www.handsometours.com, Metro Theatre Box Office; 02 9550 2990 orwww.metrotheatre.com.au & www.ticketek.com.au

Sunday August 1  - Melbourne - NEW SHOW, TICKETS ON SALE THURS MAY 13
Prince of Wales. Tickets from www.handsometours.com, Polyester Records (Fitzroy & City), Missing Link, Greville Records, Prince of Wales public bar, over the phone on 9536 1168 or book on-line www.princebandroom.com.au

Monday August 2 - Melbourne - SELLING FAST, LIMITED TICKETS REMAINING
Prince of Wales. Tickets from www.handsometours.com, Polyester Records (Fitzroy & City), Missing Link, Greville Records, Prince of Wales public bar, over the phone on 9536 1168 or book on-line www.princebandroom.com.au

Wednesday August 4 - Perth
Capitol. Tickets from www.handsometours.com, Heatseeker (www.heatseeker.com.au & Heatseeker retail outlets) and Moshtix (www.moshitx.com.au & 1300 GET TIX (438 849))
Also appearing at Splendour in the Grass (www.splendourinthegrass.com)

Midlake “The Courage of Others” & “The Trials of Van Occupanther” out now on Speak N Spell Records.
www.midlake.net
www.myspace.com/midlake

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