Ben Woods Announces National Tour + Shares Single 'Good 2 Be Sleeping'

Ōtautahi's Ben Woods is revving up the engine for next week's release of his snappily titled debut album PUT, with today's announcement of a spring release tour with band and Lucy Hunter, plus a brand new tune titled 'Good 2 Be Sleeping'. Woods' third solo single is accompanied by a video directed by Martin Sagadin, who also created Aldous Harding’s VNZMA nominated clip for 'The Barrel'. The woozy sonics of 'Good 2 Be Sleeping' are complimented by expressionistic monochrome visuals, with Woods cutting a striking figure moving like a somnambulist through paint-splattered suburban environments.

Woods' new album promises to draw upon the artist's experiences of living in the recently fraught Garden City to usher in "a new, more personal phase of the 'Antipodean Gothic'". Recorded with Steven John Marr at Dunedin’s Radio One during "a biting cold winter week in 2018," PUT will release on limited edition white vinyl LP and cassette via the hardworking gang at Melted Ice Cream, and is the first Christchurch album to be pressed to vinyl in Aotearoa since all the way back in 1987! Catch Ben Woods Group and Lucy Hunter with special guests at the dates below...

Ben Woods Group + Lucy Hunter

Thursday 24th October - San Fran, Wellington w/ Michael James Keane
Friday 25th October - Snails, Palmerston North w/ $hannengeorgiapetersen*
Saturday 26th October - Whammyfest, Whammy Bar + Backroom, Auckland (tickets available HERE via UTR)  
Sunday 27th October - Common Room, Hastings w/ In The Mouth of the Gift Horse*
Thursday 31st October - Bark!, Dunedin w/ Zero Cool, A Buried Wreck
Friday 1st November - Grainstore Gallery, Oamaru*
Saturday 2nd November - Lyttelton Coffee Co., Christchurch w/ Zero Cool

Tickets available HERE via UTR*

'PUT' is out digitally and on limited edition vinyl and cassette on Friday 16th October via Melted Ice Cream, preorder your copy HERE.