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JOHN BUTLER
‘PRISM Tour’
Intimate Capital City and Regional Tour Dates Announced
To Coincide with Release of Candid New Studio Album PRISM
With special guest Emma Donovan
Tickets on sale Friday June 20 at 12pm local time from johnbutlertrio.com
Presented by Double J and Jarrah Records
New Studio Album
‘PRISM’
– Released September 5
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Photo – Kane Hibberd
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The release on September 5 of John Butler’s deeply personal new studio album ‘PRISM’, will also mark the first date this prolific independent artist begins his Australian ‘PRISM Tour’ – a national run of shows in intimate city venues and across regional towns, with special guest Emma Donovan and for two shows only in Cairns and Darwin, The Waifs.
Presented by Double J and Jarrah Records, the tour will begin in Bunbury on September 5, and include shows in Perth, Adelaide (part of Adelaide Guitar Festival), Melbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat, Thirroul, Sydney, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane (part of Brisbane Festival), Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Darwin and Cairns before finishing in Townsville on October 5.
Tickets are on sale Friday June 20 at 12pm local time from johnbutlertrio.com
Butler said, “I am really looking forward to touring Oz again with the band for the Prism album launch. Loving playing with Ian Peres, Michael Boase and reuniting with Michael Barker on the drums. We’ve been having such a great time bringing these new songs to life on stage and the older songs are sounding BETTER THAN ever. Sorry couldn’t help myself!”
Joining Butler as special guest on the tour is highly celebrated, ARIA-nominated, award-winning singer and songwriter Emma Donovan, whose new solo album ‘Til My Song Is Done’ is out now. For Darwin and Cairns, Butler will be joined by his fellow independent folk loving friends, The Waifs.
Significantly, ‘PRISM’ marks a formal departure from the John Butler Trio moniker. It’s an album that is contemplative and explosive, joyous and free, funk-filled, cinematic and unapologetic, with singles ‘Trippin On You’ and ‘So Sorry’ already released.
‘PRISM’ is Season Three of Butler’s Four Season roll-out – following Season One’s album of meditations (‘Running River’) and Season Two’s fully instrumental album (‘Still Searching’).
Aside from solo shows in 2024 to support his two instrumental albums ‘Running River’ and ‘Still Searching’, Butler hasn’t toured Australia with a band since 2019.
Butler is widely celebrated for his epic guitar instrumentals and pedal board wizardry, and the Australian tour follows an extensive two-month North American summer tour, with Dispatch, Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love & Special Sauce and Illiterate Light, including shows in Nashville, Red Rocks, NYC’s Rooftop at Pier 17, Ravinia and more.
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JOHN BUTLER
‘PRISM Tour’
Presented by Double J and Jarrah Records
BUNBURY REGIONAL ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, BUNBURY, WA
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5
METROPOLIS FREMANTLE, PERTH, WA
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE, ADELAIDE, SA
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10
Presented in association with the Adelaide Guitar Festival
NORTHCOTE THEATRE, MELBOURNE, VIC
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11
ULUMBARRA THEATRE, BENDIGO, VIC
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12
CIVIC HALL, BALLARAT, VIC
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13
ANITA’S THEATRE, THIRROUL, NSW
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 16
METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY, NSW
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17
THE STATION, SUNSHINE COAST, QLD
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 18
PRINCESS THEATRE, BRISBANE, QLD
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19
Presented in association with the Brisbane Festival
THE EMPIRE THEATRE, TOOWOOMBA, QLD
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21
MONCRIEFF THEATRE, BUNDABERG, QLD**
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30
DARWIN SKI CLUB, DARWIN, NT*
THURSDAY OCTOBER 2
MUNRO MARTIN PARKLANDS, CAIRNS, QLD*
SATURDAY OCTOBER 4
TOWNSVILLE CIVIC THEATRE, TOWNSVILLE, QLD**
SUNDAY OCTOBER 5
Presented in association with Northern Australian Festival of Arts
Tickets on sale Friday June 20 at 12pm local time from johnbutlertrio.com
*With The Waifs
**Emma Donovan not playing, special guests to be confirmed
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Photo – Kane Hibberd
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About JOHN BUTLER:
John Butler is one of Australia’s premiere alternative songwriters and storytellers with accolades spanning from #1 charting albums, platinum records and ARIA Awards across his illustrious career as one of the country’s most successful independent musicians.
His rich catalogue of iconic hits spanning over a quarter of a century include signature songs such as ‘Zebra’, ‘Better Than’, ‘Ocean’ and more. His music continues to traverse the globe having performed on the world’s most iconic stages, venues and festivals including Fuji Rock, Glastonbury, Coachella, Red Rocks Amphitheatre and more with his high energy live show and revered musicianship.
Butler’s 2018’s ‘HOME’, debuted at #1 on the ARIA Charts with the record exploring new sonic territory, expanded instrumentation and experimentation which challenged but accentuated his core roots sound.
Butler is more than a humble singer-songwriter: he is a musical revolutionary who has paved the way for troubadours to rewrite their pathway to success in the music business, free from the shackles of major labels, corporate sponsors and moral compromise.
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Why start a music environment? The truth is I love music, I love writing, and I love life. I work with musicians every day, and I feel certain that I will be until they put me in the ground. I have been managing people in businesses of some sort for over thirty five years so along the way I have developed some “wisdom” from my regular and constant “observations”.
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