Japandroids Announce Australian Tour Dates

Celebrated Canadian two-piece Japandroids will return to Aussie shores this July for a five-date headline tour around the country.

Getting under way at Melbourne's Corner Hotel on Tuesday 11 July, the duo will head to Sydney, before making their first appearances in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in four years and heading across the ditch for a couple of shows in New Zealand.

The sojourn comes in the wake of eagerly received third studio full-length Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, which landed back in January after a three-year incubation period that saw the band shun live performances until 2016.

Although they were most recently in the country last December for a couple of festival spots — at Meredith Music Festival and Fairgrounds — alongside sideshow dates in Sydney and Melbourne, fans are nonetheless sure to be pretty damn excited to have another chance at spending an evening with the lauded outfit.

To that end, those punters who are Handsome Tours members will get first run at tickets during a pre-sale from 12pm AEST tomorrow, 20 April (you have until 3pm AEST today to sign up if you haven't already) before general-public tickets go on sale from 9am AEST on Friday 21 April.

See theGuide for a full rundown of dates, venues and other details.