IDA MARIA (LICENSED / ALL AGES)

Supported by The Skybombers

FRI 19 DEC @ 8:00PM

Price: Presale: $38.50 + BF / Door Price: $45
Bookings: (02) 9550 3666
Mode: Concert Mode GA
Tickets: On sale now @ Metro Theatre & Ticketek; Buy tickets online

Running times:
DOORS OPEN @ 8PM / SKYBOMBERS @ 9PM / IDA MARIA @ 10.10PM

Feisty Norweigan - IDA MARIA will be touring Australia for the first time in December with her sexy and ridiculously catchy single radio track, ‘I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked’. The track is the first single from her debut album Fortress Round My Heart.

Already ‘I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked’ is a radio favourite on Triple J and NOVA. Her debut album Fortress Round My Heart features ten exquisite three-minute punkpop songs about God (‘Stella’), depression (‘Drive Away My Heart’),sexual politics (‘I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked’),partying (‘Queen Of The World’), drinking(‘Oh My God’) and love(‘Louie’).

IDA MARIA - “Oh My God!”

She’s as gobby as the Gallaghers, as wayward as Winehouse, and she makes three-minute punk-pop songs that are oh so perfect. Ida Maria at just 23-years-old creates music that sounds like Bjork backed by Blondie, or Janis Joplin joining
The Jam, or Billie Holiday sitting in with The Strokes. Live, she’s a manic, crazed, whirling dervish, slam-dancing around the stage, screaming at the top of her register and all but trashing her guitar against the speaker stack.

Ida admits to going “absolutely fucking mad” when she plays gigs. Once she cracked her ribs so badly she couldn’t walk for a month; another time she head-butted a bass guitar with such force that blood gushed down her head for the rest of the gig. She thought it was red wine chucked from the moshpit.

“Being on stage feels natural to me in the way nothing else does,” she says. “It’s physical. Every time I play live I want to challenge myself. I go into a trance. I want to live the music with my whole body. Playing live should be hard, physical work, like being a fisherman or a carpenter. You should put everything you’ve got into it.”