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Photo Credit: Joe Brennan

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releases new album

available HERE

Listen to new single
‘HARPOON TO THE HEART’
HERE

PAUL KELLY
touring Australia & New Zealand
in August/September 2025

DATES & TICKETS HERE

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‘My love is as a fever longing still
for that which longer nurseth the disease’*

“For close to fifty years I’ve written mostly love songs. I never know what I’m doing until I’m in the middle of it but, looking back, it seems this record is an attempt to present a lot of those kinds of love songs into one forty minute album. Urgent love, catastrophic love, deluded love, clear-eyed love, complicated love, the beginning of love, the end of love; love gone wrong, love pretty right, love of contradiction, love of revenge, love of clan, love between parents and children. There’s even a love song to sleep, written with my friend Billy Miller, for all the insomniacs out there.

My songs come slowly, one by one. Each time I write a song it feels like I’m starting again. Each new one seems to have no relation to the one before.

I’ve been playing with my band – or variants of it – for many years. With Bill (bass) and Dan (guitar), for over twenty. With Pete (drums), over thirty. Ash (guitar)and Cameron (keyboards), with whom I started playing seventeen years ago, are the ‘newbies’. Combined, they are a living, breathing encyclopedia of 20th and 21st century music.  I think of them as explorers, looking to make each song its own new world.

We are anti-coherence, anti-pattern, anti-order! Our philosophy’s eclectic! We always want to make each song as different as possible to the last. We know that our own limitations and natural bents will make the record ‘coherent’ without us even trying. This set of songs gives my boon companions full range to lay out their palettes, get messy and paint!I always knew Houndstooth Dress would be the first song. Where else would it go? It’s a party starter and gives a hint of how we work – in the moment, trying to catch something, pushing and pulling. And I always knew Going To The River With Dad, a song of meditation, sweetness and memory, would be the last. The Alpha and Omega of the album. The trick, or in other words, the fun part, was how to navigate from first to last, stopping, like Odysseus, at different islands and countries and having many strange adventures along the way.

Play this record loud or soft, at a party or for the quiet listening two. Play your favourite bits or play it all straight through. Play it with the ones you love true.” – PK

*From Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare.

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Paul Kelly is poised to embark on his most ambitious shows biggest shows in Australia and New Zealand to date, and his only live shows for 2025: nine huge arenas in Brisbane,Sydney, Hobart,Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland in August/September 2025… proudly presented by Frontier Touring, Triple M (AU) and Stuff (NZ).

Click here for dates and ticketing info.

Joining him on this monumental tour will be special guest Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit for the Australian shows, along with Fanny Lumsden (AU shows) and Reb Fountain (NZ shows). As he prepares for this tour, fans can expect an unforgettable experience, showcasing both new material and timeless favorites from one of Australia’s most revered songwriters.

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PAUL KELLY – NEW ALBUM ‘FEVER LONGING STILL’
Available HERE

TRACKLISTING

1. Houndstooth Dress
2. Love Has Made A Fool Of Me
3. Taught By Experts
4. Hello Melancholy, Hello Joy
5. Northern Rivers
6. Double Business Bound
7. Let’s Work It Out In Bed
8. All Those Smiling Faces
9. Harpoon To The Heart
10. Back To The Future
11. Eight Hours Sleep
12. Going To The River With Dad

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AMNPLIFY – DB