Modest Mouse Announce Auckland Headline Show

Stars of the '00s indie rock era with their triple-hitting album run The Moon and Antarctica (2000), Good News For People Who Love Bad People (2005) and We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007), Modest Mouse have announced their first Aotearoa headline event in more than a decade. Finally free to tour their acclaimed latest studio long player 2021's The Golden Casket (their seventh in a career spanning 30 years) hereabouts now local border restrictions are in the rear view mirror, the Grammy nominated collective fronted by singer / guitarist Isaac Brock will perform a special one-off show in Tāmaki Makaurau this autumn. Fans of such hook-fuelled, heartstring-tugging anthems as 'Float On', 'Dashboard' and 'Dramamine' will be making a beeline to The Powerstation to catch the Portland-based group's long-awaited return on 20th April — grip the official details right here...

Modest Mouse
with special guests

Thursday 20th April - The Powerstation, Auckland (R18)

Tickets on sale via frontiertouring.com/modestmouse

Here's Modest Mouses's 2004 classic 'Float On'...

Watch Modest Mouse performing 'We Are Between' from their latest album The Golden Casket on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon...

Press release:

Frontier Touring is stoked to announce the return of American rock band Modest Mouse to play one rollicking show only at Auckland’s Powerstation this April!

Capable of punkish rawness, simmering atmosphere, and light-hearted pop, Modest Mouse shaped the sound of late-'90s indie rock and have enjoyed mainstream success in the years that followed.

Coupled with Isaac Brock’s wild-eyed yelp and sketches of small-town life, their mix of emo, folk, post-rock, and prog won critical acclaim. Their major-label debut, 2000's moody, sprawling The Moon and Antarctica, showed just how grandly ambitious their music could be, while 2005's platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated commercial breakthrough Good News For People Who Love Bad People and its smash hit Float On revealed their flair for anthemic pop singles.

On later albums like 2007's chart-topping We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (which featured legendary guitarist Johnny Marr) and 2021's The Golden Casket, Modest Mouse gave their music arena-sized proportions without sacrificing their idiosyncratic outlook. Modest Mouse last played in New Zealand in 2011 and that show sold out immediately. Now, over ten years later, the band are finally coming back! Tickets to this one-off show go on sale on Monday 20th February.