Due to overwhelming demand The Mountain Goats add extra show in Melbourne. Announce Oh Pep! to support nationally.

Due to high demand, Handsome Tours is excited to announce that a second Melbourne show has been added to The Mountain Goats upcoming 2017 Australian Tour on Tuesday 11th April at The Toff In Town, tickets onsale NOW.

For the first time in five years, the band, led by founder, singer and songwriter John Darnielle, will be gracing the stages of Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Byron Bay’s Bluesfest.

Supporting The Mountain Goats nationally is Melbourne based female folk/pop duo, Oh Pep! Originally drawn together by a shared love of songs with no boundaries or expectations. Olivia Hally and Pepita Emmerichs AKA Oh Pep! have since released an impressive three EP’s, but it is their debut album STADIUM CAKE that truly showcases their uniquely compelling collaboration.

TICKETS ONSALE NOW

Perth | Thursday 6th April, Badlands ** SELLING FAST **

Adelaide | Friday 7th April, Fowlers Live ** SELLING FAST ** 

Adelaide  | Saturday 8th April, The Grace Emily  ** SOLD OUT**

Sydney | Sunday 9th April, The Factory Theatre  **LESS THAN 50 TICKETS REMAINING**

Melbourne | Tuesday 11th April, The Toff In Town ** JUST ADDED**

Melbourne |  Wednesday 12th April, The Corner Hotel ** SOLD OUT** 

Also appearing at  Byron Bay’s Bluesfest

A prototypical songsmith of his generation, Darnielle has been renowned for his immersive lyricism and vivid storytelling for over 20 years. During this time, The Mountain Goats has evolved from the lo-fi solo recordings of the 1990s to compositionally rich, grandly conceptual, full-band offerings in the last decade.

Darnielle’s penchant for observation and narrative has further seen him branch out into writing, releasing his first novel ‘Wolf in White Van’ in 2014 with a follow-up, ‘Universal Harvester’, coming in February 2017 on the eve of his Australian visit.

The tour follows the release of The Mountain Goats ambitious fifteenth studio album ‘Beat the Champ’, which chronicles the American Southwest underworld of the pro wrestlers he idolised as a kid. As always, it is the details that make this album so absorbing as he vividly imagines and paints their lives through lyric and melody.

“I wrote these songs to re-immerse myself in the blood and fire of the visions that spoke to me as a child, and to see what more there might be in them now that I’m grown,” – Darnielle

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