DINOSAUR JR - OVER 18s + LICENSED/ALL AGES
Sat 7 July (Over 18s) & Sun 8 July (All Ages)
- Price
- $46.70 + bf
- Bookings
- (02) 9550 3666
- Mode
- Concert Mode - General Admission
- Tickets
- On sale now @ Moshtix & Ticketek
7pm: DOORS
7.30pm: REGULAR JOHN
8.30pm: LOU BARLOW SOLO
9.45pm: DINOSAUR JR
The triumphant return in 2006, of the original line-up of Dinosaur Jr, is further by the release of Beyond, the brand new studio album from the core trio of J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph. Arriving somewhere between the sonic onslaught of 1987’s You’re Living All Over Me and the pop-tinged melancholy of 1993’s Where You Been, Beyond is arguably - no, it is - the best Dinosaur Jr album to date.
VIDEO: Almost Ready
Tracks such as This Is All I Came to Do and the first single Been There All the Time, sitting comfortably alongside previous alterna-hits Freak Scene & The Wagon, as classics for a new generation of slackers. Elsewhere (most notably on the 6 min 34 sec Pick Me Up) we bear witness to the guitar wizardry of J Mascis, picking up the ball from 3 minutes out and giving his fret-board a solid workout. Meantime, Lou Barlow provides two of the album highlights in Back to Your Heart & Lightning Bulb, his strident double-tracked lead vocal working in complete contrast to - yet remaining eerily consistent with - Mascis’s laconic drawl. I Got Lost & We’re Not Alone also, displaying the sort of vulnerability that underlies much of Dinosaur Jr’s best work but which is rarely acknowledged. Don’t just take our word for it though - check out some of these rapturous reviews:
‘A genuine monster’ NME 8/10
‘We are not worthy’ Time Out 5*
‘Beyond is a roaring success’ Guardian 3*
‘An absolute treat’ Kerrang 4*
‘Mascis is at his laconical, vulnerable best’ Classic Rock
‘A thing of absolute joy’ Word Magazine
And with all that knowledge safely in the bank, it’s a pleasure to announce that Dinosaur Jr will return to Australia (and New Zealand) this July for a full national tour. With all amps cranked to eleven you can be sure that Dinosaur Jr will deliver their new material and favourite oldies with all the subtlety of a jet engine - just the way you like it..
