THE DRONES
Supported by Kev Carmody & Witch Hats
SAT 25 APR @ 8:00PM
- Price
- $25 +BF
- Bookings
- (02) 9550 3666
- Mode
- CONCERT MODE - General Admission Standing
- Tickets
- On sale now @ METRO THEATRE
- Buy tickets online
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RUNNING TIMES:
8:00pm - Doors / 8:30pm - Witch Hats / 9:30pm Kev Carmody / 10:45 - 12:00 THE DRONES
The Drones pinned SOLD OUT signs to all of the shows on their Havilah album launch tour last year; it was the most ambitious tour of the band’s career to date, and the most successful. The summer months came and went with them playing to even bigger crowds at The Falls Festival, Big Day Out and Laneway festivals.
In December Havilah popped up at the beginning of every “top ten” list of releases for 2008 in media across the country, and last week the album earned The Drones their third AMP Award nomination. Their first nomination in 2005 saw them walk away with the prize for “Wait Long By The River & The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By”.
The Drones will be joined on the road by Los Angeles experimental noise-punk outfit Qui, featuring ex- Scratch Acid and The Jesus Lizard vocalist David Yow. Qui have been building a cult following in the USA since they began in 2000, this will be their first trip to Australia.
Tasmanian bred, Melbourne-based dirty rockers Witch Hats will also tag along for the ride. The band was praised in publications around Australia for its full-length debut Cellulite Soul in 2008. Their live show has been described as “The Scientists meets Asteroid B612 with some Rowland S. Howard thrown in to the mix” (Ben Eltham, The Courier Mail).
“Album No 4 from Melbourne’s the Drones opens like a disturbed snake nest: writhing, biting, unremorseful, with Gareth Liddiard unleashing a torrent of poetic incantations on the foolishnesses of modern society…The Drones keep raising the bar.” WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
“The Drones wander into the wilderness and bring back new musical salvation. Havilah is prime evidence that four humans can corral their ambient fears, creative faculties and many frustrations into a document not of nihilism but of intent, purpose, outrage, hope, fury and ambition.” ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE ****
“The Drones are Melbourne’s most literate louts, the gnarly, menacing sound echoing the likes of The Triffids and The Bad Seeds. Gareth Liddiard’s snaggle-toothed snarl slithers around visceral songs about everything from war vets to man walking on the moon.” WHO MAGAZINE
“Havilah marks a run of three brilliant records in a row, not counting their above average debut and outtakes album The Miller’s Daughter. The recent SBS historical series Great Australian Albums seems less than authoritative when placed next to a band like this.” MESS + NOISE
