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Camera IconWolf Alice are coming to Perth in December. Credit: Rachel Fleminger Hudson<\/p>\nIf playing two shows in Perth in the space of a year wasn\u2019t enough to endear Wolf Alice to WA fans, drummer Joel Amey says we also produce some of the best music in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have the best f…ing music on the west coast of Australia,\u201d he says. \u201cLike Pond and Tame Impala. For such an isolated part of quite an isolated country, you\u2019ve dominated my music inspirations for a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amery is speaking to PLAY from Melbourne ahead of the British band\u2019s Laneway Festival performance, the first of the band\u2019s two circuits of Australia this year.<\/p>\n
Having impressed fans at the festival, the North London quartet will return to our shores with their own headline tour in December, which includes a show at the Ice Cream Factory in Northbridge.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s a functioning ice-cream factory, I could not be more excited for the show,\u201d Amery says.<\/p>\n
Wolf Alice\u2019s relentless touring schedule follows the release of their fourth album, The Clearing. Amey says the album has taken the band in new directions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are dominant, exciting feelings for this record,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Camera IconWolf Alice are coming to Perth in December. Credit: Rachel Fleminger Hudson<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, even though we\u2019ve done pieces of music that other people would argue are maybe more trippy, this is the most experimental thing we\u2019ve ever done.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s completely different to anything that has come before in its cohesiveness and in its choice of sonics. I just see it as the stepping stone to the next chapter for Wolf Alice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Clearing is a new way of working. The Clearing is a new way for us as old friends to find a fresh way of doing something again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The drummer said this was the most the band had evolved in more than a decade \u2014 having first emerged on the scene in 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel really lucky that I\u2019m still in this situation, I\u2019m still travelling the world. (The band) used to laugh when we were teenagers, about being in a band together,\u201d Amey says.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, I\u2019m speaking to you, you\u2019re from the other side of the world, and we\u2019re chatting about something we\u2019ve made. I feel so f…ing humbled that I still get to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Camera IconEllie Rowsell performs during Laneway Festival 2026, Arena Joondalup. Credit: Carwyn Monck\/The West Australian<\/p>\n
The band have reached some incredible milestones, one of which was opening for Harry Styles in Hamburg to 50,000 or so die-hard fans in June 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018God, what\u2019s this gonna be?\u2019. He\u2019s, like, the biggest pop star in the world,\u201d Amey says.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Harry\u2019s) fans are unreal. They\u2019re completely up for hearing new sounds, different sounds, and guitar bands.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time, we sounded even less like Harry Styles than we maybe do now. We were playing noisy guitar solos and riffs, and they were just amazing. They were so responsive and so kind.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Harry) as a person is so personable, so kind. You know, some people present this front-facing thing of kindness; well, he does it, and he implements it. And for me, I leave with huge respect for actually doing the things you say. That means a lot. It was an amazing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lead singer Ellie Rowsell even features on Styles\u2019 new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, singing backing vocals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was chuffed to be able to go to his studio and listen to some of his songs and put down some harmonies. It was a real pleasure,\u201d she told NME.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually haven\u2019t heard the whole album in its entirety yet, so I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amey says he\u2019s been loving seeing fans\u2019 reactions to the new album at their most recent shows, as it includes a few softer, slower songs that historically aren\u2019t also suited to a festival environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think as performers, you think everyone needs to hear the loudest, the most shatteringly loud thing, and that\u2019s the only way to get attention,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018We need more rock stuff\u2019. And actually, no, I think I was wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ended up putting back in a song called Leaning Against The Wall. And I was so happy to witness the appreciation for that kind of songwriting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another song fans have been obsessing over is 2017\u2019s Don\u2019t Delete The Kisses.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been with us for a long time. It\u2019s like an old friend that you meet up with in the pub you haven\u2019t seen for a while. Then you realise, \u2018I love this person\u2019,\u201d Amey says.<\/p>\n
Wolf Alice play the Ice Cream Factory in Perth on December 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If playing two shows in Perth in the space of a year wasn\u2019t enough to endear Wolf Alice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-363545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}