Alex Lahey Announces Australian Tour Celebrating 10th Anniversary Of 'B-Grade University'

Alex Lahey will perform headline shows in Australia for the first time in three years, celebrating the tenth anniversary of her debut EP, 'B-Grade University.'

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Alex Lahey was already celebrating the tenth anniversary of her debut EP, B-Grade University, with a “Reunion Edition” release.

Today, Lahey has announced extra commemorations by revealing her first Australian headline shows in three years, each one reflecting on the EP that changed her life.

The tour begins at Brisbane’s The Triffid on Thursday, 20 August. It continues at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel on Friday, 21 August, Sydney’s Manning Bar on Saturday, 22 August, Perth’s Rosemount Hotel on Friday, 28 August, and concludes at Adelaide’s Jive on Saturday, 29 August.

Pre-sale tickets will be available on Wednesday, 3 June, at 10 am AEST, followed by the general sale on Thursday, 4 June, at 10 am AEST. You can find more ticketing information on the Three Kings Touring and Alex Lahey websites.

Lahey released her debut EP, B-Grade University, in 2016. She’s commemorating the tenth anniversary with a Reunion Edition release on Friday, 17 July, via ADA. Limited editions of vinyl for B-Grade University (Reunion Edition) are available to pre-order here.

Last month, Lahey unveiled a re-recorded version of the EP’s lead single, You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me, which features Tegan & Sara.

In addition to the EP’s original tracklisting, B-Grade University (Reunion Edition) features brand-new recordings of You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me and Let’s Go Out, as well as alternate versions of Wes Anderson and Let’s Go Out, from Lahey’s 2020 Between the Kitchen and the Living Room EP. Along with Tegan & Sara, Lahey also collaborates with Slowly Slowly on the Reunion Edition release.

Discussing the EP’s impact on her life, Lahey said:

I vividly remember writing this collection of songs in my childhood bedroom at my mum’s house next to a small window where I could catch glimpses of the ever-expanding edges of the Melbourne city landscape in the years I lived there.

I sold my trusty blue Toyota Corolla (aka the Corolls Royce) and gathered every single dollar I could from random day jobs to pay for studio time and will the project into existence.

I am not exaggerating when I say this EP completely changed my life. These songs found their place in the world in a way I could have never fathomed and have forged a life of their own over the last decade.

They’ve taken me to corners of the world I could only have dreamed of seeing, let alone playing music in, given me the privilege of meeting so many people who have found their own stories in the songs, and they have enabled me to keep making the next thing. I feel indebted to all of these songs and treat them with extra care and love whenever I play them live.