Sarah Blasko will celebrate her revered early albums, 'The Overture & The Underscore' and 'What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have,' later this year.
Sarah Blasko (Credit: Marcus Coblyn)
Sarah Blasko is celebrating 21 years of making music in the public sphere this September and October, today announcing a very special tour.
For her Double Feature Tour, the critically acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter will take her fans back to the beginning, performing her two seminal albums, her beloved debut LP The Overture & The Underscore (2004) and the breakthrough follow-up What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have (2006) in their entirety.
In addition to playing both albums in their entirety, they’ll also be released on vinyl for the first time on Friday, 5 September. Even more exciting news for fans is that the vinyl release of The Overture will arrive with the B-sides Into The Great White Open, Fall Down, Long Time, and her famous cover of the Cold Chisel classic, Flame Trees. You can pre-order the vinyl releases here.
Blasko will be accompanied by her long-standing live bandmates, David Hunt, David Symes, Laurence Pike, and Neal Sutherland on the upcoming tour.
Beginning at Thirroul’s Anita’s Theatre on Friday, 5 September, Blasko will also take her hits to the Melbourne Recital Centre on Friday, 12 September, Perth’s Astor Theatre on Friday, 19 September, Brisbane’s The Tivoli on Thursday, 25 September, Adelaide’s Hindley Street Music Hall on Friday, 26 September, and ends at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Saturday, 11 October.
Pre-sale tickets will be available on Friday, 13 June, at 11 am local time ahead of the general sale beginning on Tuesday, 17 June, at 11 am local time. Tickets will be available via Sarah Blasko’s website.
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Reflecting on her decision to pursue music, Sarah Blasko said of her younger self, “I am, in a way, quite proud of my younger self for knowing that this career is what I wanted, and that I was setting that up for myself without even realising.”
Fri 5 September - Anita’s Theatre - Dharawal Land/Thirroul
Fri 12 September - Melbourne Recital Centre - Naarm/Melbourne
Fri 19 September - Astor Theatre - Boorloo/Perth
Thur 25 September - The Tivoli - Meanjin/Brisbane
Fri 26 September - Hindley Street Music Hall - Kaurna Land/Adelaide
Sat 11 October - Enmore Theatre - Gadigal Land/Sydney