Sneaky Snoozes & Sightseeing In Europe: On Tour With Pretty City

18 November 2017 | 8:31 am | Pretty City

Currently in the midst of a huge European tour, Melbourne psych-rockers Pretty City are keeping us in the loop with their very own tour diary. 

Here''s what the guys have been getting up to.


beautiful vienna

We landed in Vienna, and it became our home Inside Austria. The white-washed classical facades are stunningly uniform and ornate, a truly inspiring place to wander and think. We spent four days preparing to tour and absorbing the grandeur of this place. It infused the tour with an air-minded optimism for us, a mood which underpinned our shows.

club wakuum, graz

Our first show of the tour, a big energy to a packed club in Graz called Wakuum. Johnny was well up for Graz, as evidenced by his extreme focus here.

the roxy, prague

Mid tour, eight shows in eight days, soundcheck just off the mean streets and cobbled thoroughfares of Prague. Touring: where routines meet dreams.

ken's asleep

Ken is beautiful, when Ken sleeps it is like a gothic contortion of his natural beauty, somehow elevated beyond itself through the flayed and bedraggled honesty. Ken slept on every publicly situated couch in Europe.

mokka cafe, thun

Imagine every kitsch tiki and rock bar you've ever visited piled upon each other. Mokka in Thun was a labyrinth of vintage decor and punky visuals, we had an amazing show here. The manager, Henry, cooked us dinner and served a mound of slow-cooked fennel with a plastic alpaca figurine standing on top of it. A place created and maintained with care and dedication, Mokka was a highlight of our time in Switzerland.

classical beauty

Touring is a diverse experience, exhausting, inspiring, testing and nourishing in extreme ways. The backdrop of shifting scenery and changing landscapes becomes a companion, evolving and informing the songs as you re-interpret them night after night. Getting out of your usual surrounds offers the healthiest form of destabilisation, drawing focus on the intrinsic message that you are banding together in order to convey.