CHILDREN COLLIDE
shares new single + video
‘FUNERAL FOR A GHOST’
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+ ANNOUNCE FACEBOOK PREMIERE + INSTAGRAM TV ALBUM PREVIEW ON
SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER @ 3:00PM AEST
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Photo credit: Zac Bayly
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“..one of the most essential and urgent pop acts in contemporary Australian music.”
– MUSIC JUNKEE
“With the way these new tunes are sounding, you can be sure that the new record is going to be a corker.”
– TONE DEAF
“..long-time favourites of the Australian rock world.”
– PILERATS
“Australia’s original indie darlings are back!”
– MIXDOWN
“…anything Children Collide related would always be worth the wait.”
– XPRESS
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Following their long-awaited reunion, with the November release of Aurora and frenzied headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney, today, Children Collide unveils Funeral For A Ghost. The new single and Beat Club inspired video available via Spinning Top Records | Caroline Australia, will feature on their forthcoming fourth studio album. To mark the release, the trio will host an exclusive album preview on Facebook Premiere and Instagram TV on Sunday 6 September @ 3:00pm AEST.
Recorded by Loren Humphrey at Diamond Mine & Stockholm Syndrome in New York City, Funeral For A Ghost is doused with propulsive rhythms and explosive energy. “I wrote it on an old Roland loop pedal when I was living in a dungeon in North Melbourne an eon ago,” says frontman/guitarist Johnny Mackay of the track. “I had to open a trap door to get down to my room and you could see where a tunnel had been bricked up on my bedroom wall. I was listening to a lot of Sonic Youth at the time, constantly rotating between Murray St and Confusion is Sex. Listening to it now, the lyrics sound like I wrote them last week about COVID conspiracy nuts. Time is a flat circle,” he muses.
Directed by Lord Fascinator and filmed by Nico White and Dave Meagher, the visual accompaniment for Funeral For A Ghost deftly captures the meteoric onstage chemistry between Mackay, drummer Ryan Caesar and live bassist Chelsea Wheatley, who performs as Chela.
A live phenomenon, Children Collide have played sets at SXSW, The Great Escape, Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Groovin The Moo and the Big Day Out. They’ve performed countless sold-out headline shows across the nation in addition to dates in London, Paris, LA, New York and Tokyo. Earlier this year, they joined Bad//Dreems, West Thebarton, Hayley Mary and more at Fire Aid in Adelaide with a stern reminder of what audiences had been missing.
Funeral For A Ghost and Aurora are the first releases since the twice ARIA-nominated band’s third studio album Monument in 2012. It was another enduringly popular LP, following 2008‘s The Long Now and 2010’s Theory Of Everything, which debuted at #5 on the ARIA album chart and claimed the triple j feature album. Their repertoire includes some of the most well-loved Australian singles of the past decade, a roll call that includes Social Currency, Skeleton Dance, Chosen Armies, Loveless and triple j hottest 100 entries Farewell Rocketship, Jellylegs and My Eagle.
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CHILDREN COLLIDE
Tour Dates
23 + 24 January 2021
Yours and Owls Festival, Wollongong NSW
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CHILDREN COLLIDE
NEW SINGLE
FUNERAL FOR A GHOST – OUT NOW
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