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The next tantalizing taste of new music from The Cat Empire via their song-a-month reveal for 2018 is the slow burning La Sirène.
Sung predominantly in French by guest vocalist Eloise Mignon, La Sirène is as the band’s co-frontman Felix Riebl explains,
“the kind of song that I wouldn’t have expected The Cat Empire to play, but it just rolls along in this beautiful circular way. It just crept it’s way onto the album and has turned out to be one of it’s most charismatic moments.”
Eloise Mignon works as an actress in theatre, film and television in Europe and Australia, in both English and French. She is currently performing in Sarah Kane’s Blasted at Malthouse Theatre, and doing a PhD in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne. La Sirène is her first recorded song.
La Sirène pays homage to the devoted fan base in French Quebec,which has been a home away from home for The Cat Empire for over a decade. The band has played to their biggest ever audience in Montreal, not only once, but twice to over a quarter of a million people as part of Montreal Jazz festival.
Their popularity in the region has been helped enormously by the fact that co-front man Harry James Angus speaks French, and has been able to engage media and fans in their own language. They also hold a venue record at The Metropolis Montreal for the most sold out shows a band has ever played at that venue.
The cover image for La Sirène, called Clay Body, is by Prue Stent, Honey Long and Clare Longley, three good friends and artists whose practices have merged and mingled in different ways over the years, coming together at different points to explore shared fascinations and the common threads. Prue Stent is a cousin of Harry James Angus’, so the band are delighted to be collaborating with another artistic family member.
It’s been a massive year so far for The Cat Empire, after releasing the brand new songs Ready Now and Stolen Diamonds, the band have mobilised their global fanbase with these two new songs alone amassing over 1 million streams and 75,000 views on YouTube and counting. Now with the release of La Sirène that engagement looks set to continues as The Cat Empire continue to build on another standout year in their already storied career.
After an already massive run through Europe playing major festivals, nearly all shows on the Australian leg of their 2018 World Tour have sold out. Only a few tickets remain in Canberra, Gold Coast and WA, additional shows have just been announced in Darwin and Yalingup WA.
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Listen to “La Sirène” HERE
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THE CAT EMPIRE
2018 AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
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Thursday 6thSeptember, Odeon Theatre, Hobart (SOLD OUT)
Supported by Odette (All Ages)
tickets click here
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Saturday 8thSeptember, Palais Theatre, Melbourne (LAST TIX REMAINING)
Supported by Odette (All Ages)
tickets click here
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Friday 14thSeptember, Enmore Theatre, Sydney (LAST TIX REMAINING)
Supported by Odette (All Ages)
tickets click here
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Saturday 15thSeptember, Enmore Theatre, Sydney (LAST TIX REMAINING)
Supported by Odette (All Ages)
tickets click here
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Sunday 16thSeptember, UC Refectory, Canberra
Supported by Odette (All Ages)
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Thursday 20thSeptember, The Triffid, Brisbane
Supported by Odette (18+)
tickets click here
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Friday 21stSeptember, The Triffid, Brisbane (SOLD OUT)
Supported by Odette (18+)
tickets click here
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Saturday 22ndSeptember, The Triffid, Brisbane (SOLD OUT)
(ALL AGES 2pm matinee)
tickets click here
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Saturday 22ndSeptember, The Triffid, Brisbane (SOLD OUT)
Supported by Odette (18+)
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Sunday 23rdSeptember, Night Quarter, Gold Coast
Supported by Odette (All Ages)
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Friday 14thDecember, The Cat Empire Carnivale at Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
With Odette, Grievous Bodily Calm, Lucy Peach & more to be announced (18+)
tickets click here
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Saturday 15thDecember, The Cat Empire Carnivale at Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
With Odette, Grievous Bodily Calm, Lucy Peach & more to be announced (18+)
tickets click here
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