Alex Lloyd: Well Armed.

Alex Lloyd plays the Tivoli on Thursday.

Alex Lloyd has just release the fourth exemplary single from his Watching Angels Mend magnum opus. Appropriately enough, the release of Everybody’s Laughing finds the Sydney based songwriter about to embark on yet another jaunt around this sunburned country. However this time he won’t be backed by an expansive multi-piece ensemble; rather he’s be armed only with an acoustic guitar.

“I just got back from overseas last Tuesday,” Alex explains from a Melbourne hotel room. “I’ve just slept for like four days. I get jetlagged and crappy, you never get used to travelling. You get up at three in the morning for a couple of days.”

What were your up to overseas?

“I was in the UK, we went all over the place from up in Scotland down to Bristol, and then we did some TV in Italy before some shows in London and a couple of gigs with a big Italian artist in a football stadium in Milan, which was pretty cool. It was like 60 000 a night, which was amazing.”

Are those the biggest crowds you’ve played for?

“Yeah, it was full stadium rock man,” He laughs. “Arena rock just makes perfect sense there, all that Bon Jovi stuff makes sense. I’d never got it before, but once you play it makes sense… I reckon it would be cool to write an album just for that, you know.”

How has the solo tour come together compared to the full band format of the last shows?

“I’ve done acoustic tours before. I did one with Gomez the last time they were in Australia. I was middle slot, playing acoustic guitar, but this is really done on the back of the internet site – we haven’t really gone out and pushed it. The last tour was really good and the audience was awesome, so this is to kind of say thanks, so to speak.”

Former Pretty Violet Stain frontman Shane Nicholson will be joining Alex for the Melbourne and Brisbane shows; how did that relationship come about?

“Shane and I just became really good friends from playing together a while ago. I did some production for one of his songs, kind of a remix. We’ve always gotten along really well. He played guitar for me when I broke my arm. He’s got a record coming out, so it kind of made sense.”

Alex Lloyd plays the Tivoli on Thursday.

Alex Lloyd has just release the fourth exemplary single from his Watching Angels Mend magnum opus. Appropriately enough, the release of Everybody’s Laughing finds the Sydney based songwriter about to embark on yet another jaunt around this sunburned country. However this time he won’t be backed by an expansive multi-piece ensemble; rather he’s be armed only with an acoustic guitar.

“I just got back from overseas last Tuesday,” Alex explains from a Melbourne hotel room. “I’ve just slept for like four days. I get jetlagged and crappy, you never get used to travelling. You get up at three in the morning for a couple of days.”

What were your up to overseas?

“I was in the UK, we went all over the place from up in Scotland down to Bristol, and then we did some TV in Italy before some shows in London and a couple of gigs with a big Italian artist in a football stadium in Milan, which was pretty cool. It was like 60 000 a night, which was amazing.”

Are those the biggest crowds you’ve played for?

“Yeah, it was full stadium rock man,” He laughs. “Arena rock just makes perfect sense there, all that Bon Jovi stuff makes sense. I’d never got it before, but once you play it makes sense… I reckon it would be cool to write an album just for that, you know.”

How has the solo tour come together compared to the full band format of the last shows?

“I’ve done acoustic tours before. I did one with Gomez the last time they were in Australia. I was middle slot, playing acoustic guitar, but this is really done on the back of the internet site – we haven’t really gone out and pushed it. The last tour was really good and the audience was awesome, so this is to kind of say thanks, so to speak.”

Former Pretty Violet Stain frontman Shane Nicholson will be joining Alex for the Melbourne and Brisbane shows; how did that relationship come about?

“Shane and I just became really good friends from playing together a while ago. I did some production for one of his songs, kind of a remix. We’ve always gotten along really well. He played guitar for me when I broke my arm. He’s got a record coming out, so it kind of made sense.”