UK Songstress Pauline Murray Announces First-Ever Australian Shows

Veteran British performer and punk icon Pauline Murray is to embark on her maiden voyage Down Under for a four-date run of shows at the end of this month and early next.

With two performances apiece in Sydney and Melbourne — for two of which she will be joined by Deborah Conway of '80s mainstays Do-Ré-Mi — Aussie audiences will have a significant chance to catch Murray in the flesh as she prepares to re-issue 1980's legendary Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls full-length. That album, featuring members of the Buzzcocks and The Durutti Column, as well as performance and production work from iconic post-punk identity Martin Hannett, went on to be recognised as a new-wave classic, yielding several singles including Mr X, Searching For Heaven and Dream Sequence.

Murray's punk roots go deeper than that, though — an original member of the budding 1970s movement, as frontwoman for Penetration, she spent plenty of time hobnobbing around with the likes of genre icons The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Only Ones and Stiff Little Fingers, before the band dissolved in 1979. They later reformed in 2001, and remain active to this day.

The re-released album will be exclusively available at all of Murray's Australian shows, which kick off at Sydney's Camelot Lounge on Thursday, October 30 (supported by Pel Mel). She hits The Basement on November 1 and The Toff In Town, Melbourne, on November 8 — both supported by Conway — and wraps up at the same venue the following evening, November 9, supported by Lisa Miller.

See the Gig Guide or check The Music App for ticketing and booking information.