Vance Joy Announces 2016 East Coast Tour With Holy Holy

Celebrated Aussie singer-songwriter Vance Joy will embark on a triumphant headline east-coast capital-city tour of Australia next year, with the Riptide hitmaker today announcing that he's bringing his acclaimed Fire & The Flood tour Down Under in April.

Having spent much of this year winning hearts and ears abroad in Europe and the US, as well as spending plenty of time rubbing shoulders as the primary US/Canadian support on Taylor Swift's world-conquering 1989 tour, Joy returns to Australian stages a considerably more accomplished prospect than when we were last treated to such a run of shows.

The tour's namesake single has recently achieved Platinum status Down Under, and even matched the planet-conquering Riptide in terms of chart placing, both now sitting as equal-highest rankers for the uke-toting troubadour. Before he sets off on his east-coast journey, however, he'll be present along with the rest of the who's who of the industry at tonight's ARIA Awards ceremony, where he's up for a solid seven awards. Then, he has a swathe of local shows with his new bestie Taylor Swift for the Australian leg of the 1989 tour, which gets under way at ANZ Stadium, Sydney, this weekend.

Then, however, it's all about the Vance-man, when he sets off for his all-ages headline tour from Saturday 23 April, with a show at Melbourne's Margaret Court Arena, heading up to Sydney's iconic Opera House for a performance on Sunday 24 April, and rounding out at Brisbane's venerated Riverstage on Saturday 30 April.

Joy will be joined at all shows by lauded Aussie outfit Holy Holy, riding high in the wake of their debut LP When The Storms Would Come and enjoying an accolade-heavy year all their own.

Frontier Touring members will be granted first run at tickets for the shows, with an exclusive pre-sale being held from 11am AEDT on Wednesday 2 December through till the same time on Thursday 3 December (or until allocation is exhausted). After that, the general public have their turn from 9am local time on Friday 4 December.

Tickets for Melbourne's show will be available via Ticketek; Sydney through the Opera House; and Brisbane via Ticketmaster.

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