SunnyboysSeminal '80s rock group Sunnyboys will be heading out on their first headline tour since 1991, in a remarkable comeback since returning to the stage last year.
Frontman Jeremy Oxley has endured a 30-year battle with schizophrenia had kept the band out of the limelight, and unlikely to return, for years before they appeared on the Hoodoo Gurus invitational festival Dig It Up last year as Kids In Dust. Growing in confidence, the band then played a sold-out show at the Sydney Opera House in conjunction with a screening of the documentary film The Sunnyboy, based on Jeremy's illness.
Last year Tim Pittman, promoter of Dig It Up, told theMusic that they may play again.
“As for playing again, there hasn't been that discussion, but there's some willingness there,” he said. “No one could have quite known how it was going to happen, until it happened It was so mind-blowingly and overwhelmingly good that I think they're considering it.”
Sunnyboys as Kids In Dust at Dig It Up. Pic by Josh Groom
As well as today's tour announcement, the band have taken the wraps off a new compilation Our Best Of, which will be released Friday 6 December. With 16 re-mastered tracks, the album features hits, rarities and unreleased cuts accompanied with a 14-page booklet of Oxley's explanation of the tracks.
Pic by Josh Groom
Touring March 2014, tickets for all shows will go on sale Wednesday 13 November. The documentary is currently streaming on the ABC's iview after it premiered on Sunday, here.
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