Paul Kelly has announced a major tour of Australia and New Zealand, starting in Perth.

The Best of Paul Kelly with special guests.

Paul Kelly is set to stage its biggest shows to date in Australia and its only live shows in 2025: six huge arenas in Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne in August/September.

Kelly’s new album called Fever, melancholy still, this is his first album of new original material since 2018. Nature.

Led by loners “Experts teach”‘ And Houndstooth dress‘, is an album created by the band in peak form, which fans will be able to see on stage next year.

Awarded an Order of Australia in 2017, with 17 ARIA Awards and five APRA Awards to his name, few songwriters find ways to keep their creative fever alive as long and as vibrantly as Kelly. The country of his birth, its emotional interior and geographical landscape, its heroes and villains, our hopes and failures – all this was a constant element of Kelly’s long list of Australian songs:To Her Door”, “Leap”, “From St Kilda to King’s Cross”, “How Prepare the gravy‘“When I First Met Your Mother”, “Dumb Things”, “Too Long Before”… the list is endless. He wrote about the country’s greatest cricketer.”Bradmanand his most notorious bushranger Ned Kelly inOur sunshine.

‘From little things big things grow.” co-written with Kev Carmodyhas taught more Australians the history of the battle for land rights than newspaper headlines ever could.

Kelly will be joined in Australia by a special guest. Jason Isbell and 400th detachment. Boasting “one of the strongest and truest voices in American rock” (Allmusic), the six-time Grammy winner came from Alabama as part of the band Truckers, before going solo with 2007’s Sirens of the Ditch. Together with his team, Isbell’s latest release is in 2023. Weather vanes – won Best American Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards. Written when he was an actor Martin Scorsese Killers of the Flower MoonThe album features the thunder of Isbell’s formidable live band, The 400 Unit, which has earned a place in the rock ‘n’ roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and narratively important as The E Street Band or the Wailers.

Opening ceremony in Australia: two-time ARIA winner and nine-time CMAA Golden Guitar award winner. Fanny Lumsdenwho went from growing up on a sheep farm in western New South Wales to playing at Glastonbury.

Her album HEY DAWN debuted at number 1 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and was the fourth best-selling country album of last year. According to The Australian, “one of the genre’s most respected performers.”

Frontier Member Presale: Monday, October 28th.
General Tickets on sale: Wednesday, October 30th.

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