Tame Impala Announce New Zealand Shows with Silicon

Australian-formed outfit Tame Impala will be jumping the ditch in November to deliver two New Zealand shows with support from Silicon (aka the solo project of Kody Neilson). The headline concerts will take place across Auckland and Wellington, and follow the group's first tour of their homeland for more than three years. The long-awaited jaunt dowunder comes in the wake of their third studio album Currents, which has received top reviews from all corners of the globe. Here are the show details...

Tame Impala with Silicon

Tuesday 24th November, Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland
Wednesday 25th November, Shed 6, Wellington

Enjoy the brand new video for 'Let It Happen', lifted from Currents...

And here is the recently released Silicon video for single 'Burning Sugar"...

PRESS RELEASE:

Laneway Presents, Radio Hauraki and Noisey Present
TAME IMPALA
IN AUCKLAND AND WELLINGTON HEADLINE SHOWS

"Tame Impala's strafing with distorting shapes and mind bending diversions took out the enemy's resolve to resist as they became one with the music.” Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald (on their Splendour In The Grass 2015 performance)

“Parker is perhaps the most prominent member of a class of young musicians that is creating some of today's most spectacularly catchy music by being backward-looking and forward-thinking at the same time.” Rolling Stone (on Currents)

“In under an hour, Tame Impala's Currents sweeps you off your feet, transports you into a psychedelic dream, and returns you as a changed person -- and for the better.” The Huffington Post (on Currents)

Following an epic comeback show for their Australian fans at Splendour In The Grass last month, festival favourites, Tame Impala, quickly reminded fans that the wait to see them return to the live stage has been well worth it.

In the wake of this widely chronicled performance, Laneway Presents can confirm that the global triumph will return to New Zealand for two concerts in November following a nationwide Australian tour.

This news comes just weeks after the release of one of 2015’s most highly anticipated album releases; the band’s third studio offering, Currents. On it, frontman, writer, performer and producer, Kevin Parker, addresses a blindingly colourful panorama of transition in the most audacious, adventurous fashion he’s yet to capture on record. Dense with heady lyrical introspection, musically the most playful, bold and varied Tame Impala record to date, Currents is Parker putting down his weapons and embracing change as the only constant - sonically, thematically, and personally.

Tame Impala are Kevin Parker, Dominic Simper, Jay Watson, Julien Barbagello and Cam Avery. Loosely formed in 2007 from a collection of Perth bands, with some changes in members and configurations along the way. Tame Impala’s first release, a self-titled EP, debuted in 2008, followed by their first album Innerspeaker in 2010. The second, often feared but sublimely successful long-player Lonerism was released in 2012. They’ve been touring to support ever since.

This latest album campaign for Currents has seen these Perth-natives escalate their stature to a universal level, accruing accolades and adulation as an international act from critics, fellow musicians, and most importantly their ever-expanding fan base. With headlining slots at Coachella and Governor’s Ball earlier this year, the fervent anticipation around the album's July release was heralded with a #1 debut on the ARIA charts and #7 on the New Zealand charts. Receiving critical acclaim across the board, The Quietus said, “What they are, on Currents - their third album, and the first since Lonerism brought them deserved renown three years ago - is something fluid, delicate and magical. They've looked upwards. They've gone forwards.” and DIY stating that “Currents dives off into bold and optimistic new waters.”

Support for both shows will be Kody Neilson’s SILICON. A prodigiously talented multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer, who remains resistant to any kind of easy pigeonholing, Kody Nielson may well have concocted the purest distillation of his hyperactive musical brain yet, in the shape of Silicon. Created in the small hours when the energy is strong, Silicon sends out pulses of warped, genuinely soulful, retro-futuristic electronica that smudges the lines between human warmth and disembodied voices from the machine.

TICKETS GO ON SALE AT 9AM ON MONDAY, 31 AUGUST

TAME IMPALA
with support from SILICON

AUCKLAND
Tuesday, 24 November – Logan Campbell Centre
Tickets via Dash Tickets

WELLINGTON
Wednesday 25 November – Shed 6
Tickets via Ticketek