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CLAP YOUR HANDS
SAY YEAH
announce supports
for November 2025
Australia &
New Zealand tour

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Alec Ounsworth / Photo – Matt Barrick

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 Iconic indie rock act Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have announced Supports for their impending Australia and New Zealand tour this November. Buzzy razor-sharp post-punk band Sweetie will be opening in Sydney, drum and guitar Duo Loose Tooth bring their sunny punk rock style to Melbourne, Platonic Sex with their singular garage rock sounds in Brisbane, and finally Beth Torrance with her wry and disarming songs takes to the stage in Auckland.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will start the Australian / New Zealand leg of the anniversary tour in Sydney at Oxford Art Factory on November 5, before heading to The Night Cat in Melbourne on November 7, The Triffid in Brisbane on November 8, and wrapping up in Auckland at The Tuning Fork on November 11.

Tickets for all shows are on sale now.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark self-titled debut album with an epic world tour, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah kicked off their global headline run in North America in March 2025, followed by a run of European dates in September, before bringing the tour down under for a run in Australia & New Zealand this coming November 2025.

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SWEETIE / Photo – IMOGEN GRIST

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Loose Tooth

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CLAP YOUR HANDS
SAY YEAH
performing the
debut album
Australia and
New Zealand 2025

Oxford Art Factory, Sydney; Wednesday 5 November (with Sweetie)
The Night Cat, Melbourne; Friday 7 November (with Loose Tooth)
The Triffid, Brisbane; Saturday 8 November (with Platonic Sex)
The Tuning Fork, Auckland; Tuesday 11 November (with Beth Torrance)

Tickets and more information Here

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About CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH:

Few bands have burst quite so brilliantly onto the scene as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Fewer still can say their debut defined a scene, a time, and marked a paradigm shift in the music industry. But Clap Your Hands Say Yeah managed all this and more; no wonder the band’s self-titled first album is still considered one of the finest and most influential independent releases of the 2000s.

A heady blend of leftfield pop and melodic, exuberant indie rock, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah repurposed a number of classic musical references for a new generation of music fans. Fun-loving and quirky, the band – formed around the enigmatic singer-songwriter Alec Ounsworth – achieved that rare alchemy, synthesizing a dizzying array of styles and influences into something wholly their own. And that something was utterly glorious, full of buzzing synths, trebly guitars, bustling drums, and Ounsworth’s lilting, wailing vocals. The record’s raw, ramshackle sound was an integral part of its appeal; time has merely magnified that charm. In “The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth” and “Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood” Ounsworth wrote two of the most uplifting, celebratory tracks of this millennium, obvious highlights on an album of consistent excellence and one rightly lauded for re-writing the rules of what indie bands could be.

The 20th anniversary of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will further be commemorated with a special new reissue, arriving on limited edition vinyl LP early next year on the band’s own label via Secretly Distribution, the defiantly independent home of Alec Ounsworth’s music for over two decades. The celebration officially gets underway with the premiere of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s original 2004 version of the fan favourite, “Heavy Metal”. The newly remixed and mastered track was recently discovered among the original project files and captures what Clap Your Hands Say Yeah founder and frontman Alec Ounsworth calls “a special moment in time – a young group of guys all piling into one hotel room to wake up and go to a real studio (!) to try and come up with something special just for the fun of it.”

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Platonic Sex

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BETH TORRANCE / Photo – Josh Hetherington

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