UK art-rockers Dry Cleaning today announce their long-awaited return to Australia and New Zealand this May and June, bringing their acclaimed live show back for a run of major festival appearances and special headline shows.
One of the hottest and most exciting acts on the scene right now, the tour includes festival stops at Vivid LIVE at the Sydney Opera House on Friday 29 May and RISING: Melbourne at the Forum on Saturday 30 May, alongside headline shows in Ballarat on Sunday 7 June at the Civic Hall, and in New Zealand at Wellington’s Meow Nui on Tuesday 2 June and Strange Universe at Auckland’s Hollywood Avondale on Wednesday 3 June.
Presented by I OH YOU and MG Live, this tour will celebrate the release of Dry Cleaning’s critically acclaimed new album Secret Love (out now, available here) and marks their first Australian and New Zealand visit since their sold-out debut tour in 2022, with critics hailing them as “like no other band you’ve seen”.
Praised as one of the most intelligent and exciting live acts to come out of the UK, the South London, Grammy Award-winning quartet shot to international prominence in 2019 with their poetic yet unconventional lyrics and alt-rock riffs, rapidly becoming one of the most thrilling new forces in rock.
Tickets go on sale Monday 16 March at 12.00pm local time, with MG Live presale commencing Friday 13 March at 12.00pm local time. Sign up for presale access here. All tickets and tour information via mg.live/drycleaning
PRAISE FOR DRY CLEANING
“The most important British guitar band of their generation.” – Uncut
“Dry Cleaning provide a voice for people who are at their wits’ end but not yet beyond a wry smile at the absurdity of modern life.” – Crack
“They’re one of a kind.” – NME ★★★★★
“Dry Cleaning is one of the best living bands.” – Paste
“It’s good to have them back.” – THE FACE
In January Dry Cleaning released their third studio album Secret Love produced by Cate Le Bon, and follow-up to 2021’s New Long Leg and 2022’s Stumpwork. Secret Love is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning, between frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard. Here, the south London four-piece take their place in rock’s avant garde, catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early ’80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence’s delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates’ soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins.
Tickets on sale Monday 16 March. For more information about Dry Cleaning’s Australian and New Zealand tour visit mg.live/drycleaning
Dry Cleaning Australian and New Zealand Tour
Tickets on sale Monday 16 March at 12.00pm local time
Presale from Presale from Friday 13 March at 12.00pm local time for 24 hours
(or until allocation exhausted)
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