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POND
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LIVE AT THE BBC EP
+ On tour in North America
this November and December
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Photo credit: Jim Bob The Homie
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“It shouldn’t seem easy for a band to stay so mercilessly vital as Pond are nine records into their career.” – SCENESTR
“The new song is a dramatic, high-speed nu-raver anchored by warbling electro synths and a Motorik beat.” – NME
“It is a supercharged, wild ride of clever chaos…” – 10 MAGAZINE
“Among its mix of roistering anthems and melodramatic balladry, 9 exudes a supple confidence throughout, engaging in some of the most enthralling Australian psychedelia to emerge from 2021.” – DIY
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Fresh from their iconic Desert Daze performance, today, Pond unveils their new EP, Live At The BBC via Spinning Top Records. Following the release, the psych legends will embark on a 16-date North American tour this November and December.
Live at the BBC was originally recorded for the Marc Riley show on BBC6 Music. “The BBC is still magic,” says lead singer Nicholas Allbrook. “I still get giddy walking past those Derbyshire-Churchill-Fab4 spirits. We all get nostalgic for a time and place 1000 light years from my mortal innings. Now we also live at the BBC, like my nameless-faceless childhood heroes.”
The EP kicks off with Take Me Avalon I’m Young, from their most recent album, 9. “This was the second time doing a session for Marc Riley’s show. We loved it. When we heard the mix we were really happy with how it sounded,” said Allbrook. “Take Me Avalon is honestly one of my favourite songs to play live at the moment. It sort of exerts its own uplifting energising force on me despite the before or the after. Even inside headphones in a brightly lit studio in the morning it felt real energetic.” The EP also features the tracks America’s Cup, Human Touch and Toast.
Pond recently covered the classic, Rain, by Dragon for triple j’s Like A Version and released the deluxe edition of their album 9, which features four new tracks including the prog-pop My Funny Serpentine, the exuberant Hang A Cross On Me and the high energy Lights of Leeming. The Fremantle five-piece also took the stage at Splendour in The Grass and performed as special guest for Liam Gallagher.
Released in October 2021 and produced by Pond and mixed by Jay Watson and James Ireland, on 9, Pond’s explorations are funnelled into electrifying bursts of pure psych-pop joy. No tune even veers past the five minute mark. Above all though, what you get from the album is a sense of creative abandon and just plain fun. The album features the vacillating psych-rock jam Human Touch, the blissed out Toast, the elastic hipped robo-funk single America’s Cup and the high energy, no-wave lead track Pink Lunettes, On 9, Pond recaptures an anarchic sense of uncertainty and fly closer than ever before to the creative supernova that has blazed across so much of the band’s music.
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About POND
Originally formed in the turn of the 2010’s, as “a Royal Trux-cum-Cream power trio,” fronted by Allbrook with Jay Watson and Joe Ryan, Pond added Jamie Terry shortly afterwards, with James Ireland later rounding out the irrepressible five-piece. Ever prolific, Pond boasts an impressive nine studio albums in their ever expanding repertoire.
Pond possesses an ever-expanding performance resumé, having toured with Arctic Monkeys, MGMT and Flaming Lips. They have stunned at premiere musical festivals around the world including Glastonbury, Coachella, Primavera, Bonnaroo, Reading and Leeds, The Governors Ball, South by Southwest, St Jerome’s Laneway, Splendour in the Grass and more. They have sold out countless venues around the globe from New York’s Bowery Ballroom to Paris’ La Gaite Lyrique and London’s O2 Forum.
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POND
TOUR DATES
NORTH AMERICAN
TOUR DATES
Presented by Spinning Top Music
Tickets on sale now
Monday 28 November | Union Stage, Washington DC
Tuesday 29 November | Webster Hall, New York NY
Thursday 1 December | Underground Arts, Philadelphia PA
Friday 2 December | The Sinclair, Cambridge MA
Saturday 3 December | Studio TD, Montreal QC
Sunday 4 December | Lee’s Place, Toronto ON
Tuesday 6 December | Metro, Chicago IL
Wednesday 7 December | Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis MN
Friday 9 December | Bluebird Theater, Denver CO – SOLD OUT
Saturday 10 December | Soundwell, Salt Lake City UT
Monday 12 December | Revolution Hall, Portland OR
Tuesday 13 December | Imperial, Vancouver BC
Wednesday 14 December | Neumos, Seattle WA
Friday 16 December | The Fillmore, San Francisco CA
Saturday 17 December | Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles CA – SOLD OUT
Sunday 18 December | Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles CA
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Live at the BBC out now
9 deluxe album edition out now
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