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BALL PARK MUSIC
release
‘COAST IS CLEAR’
alongside much-anticipated
LIKE LOVE
album and a massive
30-date AU/NZ tour
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Brisbane’s Ball Park Music follow up recent hits ‘Like Love’ and ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’ with ‘Coast Is Clear’, the heartfelt focus track of their much-anticipated eighth studio album Like Love, ahead of embarking on a massive 30-date Australian & New Zealand tour in May.
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Where the album’s title track, ‘Like Love’, shows a softer and more introspective side of the band and ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’ had you singing along to its upbeat melody and undeniable chorus, the album’s third single, ‘Coast Is Clear’, gives us a profound insight into the effects of getting caught up in the day-to-day grind instead of being present for life’s everyday joys and the debilitating guilt that comes with that realisation, all set to a beautiful, hopeful, building rhythm begging that “Someday You’ll Appear”.
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Ball Park Music singer-songwriter Sam Cromack says of the song, “This song has been kicking around since before Weirder & Weirder, but it remained on the sidelines for some reason. When we revisited it during the making of this album it became one of our favourites. It was the first song we did when we arrived in Sydney to start recording. It began with me thinking how busy/absent/distracted I can feel not just as a parent, but as a person. I often find it hard to unplug from the rush of the world and to be present with those I love, and am left feeling intense guilt and self-loathing at my inability to change. I originally sang ‘Someday I’ll appear’ but it felt much better when changed to ‘you’. The original feeling of the song remained but now this mysterious open-ended question was cast over who it is that may appear one day. I liked that”.
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Rapt to hit the road again, Ball Park Music exclaim “We are so pleased to announce that we’ll be massively expanding this tour. It’s been a while since we’ve lined up a live run this large and we couldn’t be more excited to visit every nook and cranny in the country.”
Supported by fellow Brissie band Bean Magazine and presented by triple j, you can catch Ball Park Music all over Australia and New Zealand at these epic shows…
Fri 2 May – Forth Pub, Fort TAS – Buy Tickets
Sat 3 May – Odeon Theatre, Hobart TAS (All Ages) – Buy Tickets
Thu 8 May – Prince of Wales, Bunbury WA – Buy Tickets
Fri 9 May – The River, Margaret River WA – Buy Tickets
Sat 10 May – Metropolis, Fremantle WA – Buy Tickets
Thurs 15 May – Forum, Melbourne VIC – Buy Tickets
Fri 16 May – Forum, Melbourne VIC – SOLD OUT
Sat 17 May – Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide SA – Buy Tickets
Fri 23 May – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane QLD – Buy Tickets
Fri 30 May – Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW (All Ages) – Buy Tickets
Fri 6 June – San Fran, Wellington NZ – Buy Tickets
Sat 7 June – Tuning Fork, Auckland NZ (All Ages) – Buy Tickets
Fri 13 June – UC Refectory, Canberra ACT – Buy Tickets
Sat 14 June – Beer Deluxe, Albury NSW – Buy Tickets
Fri 20 June – Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns QLD – Buy Tickets
Sat 21 June – JCU Uni Bar, Townsville QLD – Buy Tickets
Sun 22 June – Flamingos, Rockhampton QLD – Buy Tickets
Thurs 26 June – Finnians, Port Macquarie NSW – Buy Tickets
Fri 27 June – The Recky, Elizabeth Beach NSW – Buy Tickets
Sat 28 June – Drifters Wharf, Gosford NSW – Buy Tickets
Fri 4 July – Hotel Brunswick, Brunswick Heads NSW – Buy Tickets
Thurs 10 July – Theatre Royal, Castlemaine VIC – Buy Tickets
Fri 11 July – The Pier, Frankston VIC – Buy Tickets
Sat 12 July – Barwon Heads Hotel, Barwon Heads VIC – Buy Tickets
Fri 18 July – The Station, Sunshine Coast QLD (All Ages) – Buy Tickets
Sat 19 July – The Powerhouse, Toowoomba QLD – Buy Tickets
Sun 20 July – Miami Marketta, Gold Coast QLD – Buy Tickets
Thurs 24 July – Tilba Winery, Tilba NSW – Buy Tickets
Fri 25 July – Waves, Woolongong NSW – Buy Tickets
Sat 26 July – The Station, Jindabyne NSW – Buy Tickets
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Support: Bean Magazine (Australian shows only)
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Stream & Download BALL PARK MUSIC’S Album ‘LIKE LOVE’
Today Ball Park Music also release their much-anticipated album, Like Love. Named after the title track, their 8th studio album contains ‘Like Love’, ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’ and ‘Coast Is Clear’ and further proves the band as one of Australia’s most influential acts of the last decade, expanding on their incredible catalogue of songs that have sound-tracked so many lives.
Since the release of the band’s critically acclaimed 2011 debut album, Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs, Ball Park Music have secured six consecutive Top 10 ARIA Album Chart spots, with three of those records debuting at #2, while four albums have also been certified Platinum.
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Ball Park Music have also had an unbelievable 13 songs place in triple j’s Hottest 100, including two in the top 10, with ‘Cherub’ at #4 and ‘Stars In My Eyes’ at #8, while all seven of their previous records have appeared in the top 10 triple j Album of the Year listener poll in the year of their release.
Further critical acclaim has come through the multitude of awards recognising the band’s achievements, including winning a J Award and multiple Queensland Music Awards, as well as being nominated for 11 ARIA Awards, three J Awards, three AIR Awards, two National Live Music Awards and one nomination each from the APRA Awards, Rolling Stone Australia Awards and Channel [V] Awards.
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Now, you can get a sneak-peak, behind-the-scenes insight into how Ball Park Music created Like Love, via their incredibly candid in-studio documentary, ‘World Behind Your Eyes’, captured by filmmaker and friend of the band Jason Tran. Episodes one, two and three are out now.
You can also order Ball Park Music’s Like Love on vinyl in two limited edition styles (‘Saffron’ and ‘Clear & Orange Splatter’), alongside Like Love t-shirts, a jumper and mug, as well as an embroidered ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’ t-shirt all via the Ball Park Music Merch Store.
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