TUMBLEWEED - SUMMER LOVIN’
Supported by The Meanies, Dropping Honey & Baby Machine
FRI 14 JAN @ 8:00PM
- Price
- $28.70 (Over 18's Only)
- Bookings
- (02) 9550 3666
- Mode
- General Admission - Standing
- Tickets
- On sale now @ The Metro Theatre & Ticketek
DOORS 7:30PM / BABY MACHINE 8:00PM / DROPPING HONEY 8:45PM / THE MEANIES 9:30PM / TUMBLEWEED 10:30PM
Tumbleweed continue the run of amp-damage this summer with their first Sydney headline show since the 2009 reformation, with a summer tour that takes them from hometown Wollongong to Byron Bay.
The original five-piece line-up will be celebrating the release of the The Waterfront Years: a 2CD package containing all the early 7″s, the ‘Tumbleweed’ album, ‘Daddy Long Legs’ CD single, and rarities galore. It’s the early stuff so it’s the best stuff, of course…
Musical legends in Australia, the “stoner rock” riffs of Wollongong’s Tumbleweed inspired a whole generation of music lovers when they emerged in 1990s from the seeds of the Proton Energy Pills and The Unheard. Tumbleweed burst onto the scene in a huge way by gaining infamy courtesy of a national support slot to the one and only Australian tour by the legendary Nirvana back in 1992.
Originally signed to the revolutionary Australian independent label, Waterfront Records, the band’s debut release was a 7” single, “Captain’s Log”, recorded by Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm and legendary Seattle producer Jack Endino. With their single “Stoned”, an EP titled Weedseed and the single “Acid Rain” making them bigger by the day, the ‘Weed’s self-titled debut album (out locally on Waterfront Records) was released to massive praise and chart sales, resulting in a rather quick signing to the American giant Atlantic Records’ subsidiary Seed – although that’s another story!
It didn’t take long for Australia’s major labels to realise that a national treasure existed in the five piece, after which, Polydor Records became the recording home of Tumbleweed in ‘92. Tumbleweed released the (in)famous albums Galactaphonic and Return To Earth, all the while undertaking countless tours around the country as well as throughout the UK.
Despite their chequered history with its many ups and downs including several band line-up changes, Tumbleweed have let bygones be bygones and the original line up is once again playing and writing together for the first time in almost fifteen years.
To celebrate this release, Tumbleweed will embark on some special NSW shows in late December 2010 and early January 2011 including an album launch at Sydney’s Metro Theatre on Janury 14th with special guests The Meanies.
