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The 1975 announce 2023 Australian Tour

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The 1975 are jetting to our shores next year to showcase their upcoming album  Being Funny In A Foreign Language  (out 14 October). 

UPDATE:  Due to popular (unsurprising) demand, The 1975 have tacked on an additional Sydney show to the tour! 

Tickets for this new show at Qudos Bank Arena are on sale from 9am local time, Friday 20 January via Secret Sounds .

We've already heard a few cuts from the follow-up to their Aussie charts-topping fourth album  Notes On A Conditional Form , which shows that the influential UK group are as playful and genre-agnostic in their approach to pop music as ever.

We've had comeback single ' Part Of The Band ', the more intimate ' All I Need To Hear ', the fizzy ' Happiness ', plus 'I'm In Love With You', alongside a video where frontman Matty Healy clowns around with good friend (and  Laneway bill-topper ) Phoebe Bridgers. 

Performing in capital cities from April 2023, these will be The 1975's first shows in the country since headlining the  2020 Laneway Festival . It's billed as part of the band's 'At Their Very Best' tour, which sees them playing huge shows across the US, UK, Ireland and Japan as well as Australia and New Zealand. 

Tickets are on sale Friday 14 October, 11am. A pre-sale kicks off 12 October. View the dates below and more info at secretsounds.com .

The 1975 'At Their Very Best' 2023 Australian Tour

• Sat  8 April 2023 – Red Hill Auditorium: Whadjuk Noongar, Perth
• Mon 10 April 2023 – AEC Theatre: Kaurna, Adelaide (final tickets remain)
• Tue 11 April 2023 - Rod Laver Arena: Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Melbourne (final tickets remain)
• Wed 12 April 2023 – Rod Laver Arena: Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Melbourne (sold out)
• Fri 14 April 2023 – Aware Super Theatre: Gadigal Land, Sydney (sold out)
• Sat 15 April 2023 – Riverstage: Turrbal Jagera, Brisbane (sold out)
• Sun 16 April 2023 - Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney (just added)

Being Funny In A Foreign Language  is out 14 October via Dirty Hit.

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The 1975 Announce 'At Their Very Best' Australian Tour

The highly anticipated 'At Their Very Best' tour will see The 1975 grace stages in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. It will be their first time playing to Aussie audiences in three years.

Acclaimed English pop-rockers The 1975  have announced a headlining tour of Australia .  The highly anticipated   At Their Very Best tour will see the band grace stages in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne,  Sydney and Brisbane.  It will be their first time playing to Aussie audiences in three years. 

The 1975 will arrive in Australia with a host of new tracks to perform from their forthcoming album, Being Funny In A Foreign Language, which is due for release on 14 October. The band have recently released four singles from the album including All I Need To Hear , I’m In Love With You, Happiness  and Part Of The Band , their acclaimed comeback single which Pitchfork praised as “the kind of grand, playful pop song that only this band could pull off” . 

Being Funny In A Foreign Language  will be The 1975’s fifth studio album and is said to be their most intimate yet. While the band’s past few records were brimming with massive production—programming and synths— Being Funny In A Foreign Language is rooted in performance.

The 1975’s previous record, 2020’s Notes On A Conditional Form  became their fourth consecutive #1 album in the UK, landing at #1 in Australia too. 2020 also saw them named NME’s ‘Band of the Decade’, following being crowned as ‘Best Group’ at the BRIT Awards in both 2017 & 2019. Their third studio album, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, also won ‘Mastercard British Album of the Year’ at the 2019 ceremony.

Formed in Manchester in 2002, The 1975 have established themselves as one of the   defining bands of their generation with their distinctive aesthetic, ardent fanbase and unique sonic approach.

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The 1975 made their long-awaited live comeback in August as they headlined Japan’s biggest rock festival Summer Sonic 2022 in Tokyo and Osaka before returning to the UK for two triumphant headline slots at the iconic Reading & Leeds Festival. The 2023 Australian dates are part of the global At Their Very Best tour which includes huge shows in North America, UK, Ireland and Japan.

Tickets are on sale  for the Australian dates at 11 am, local time, Friday 14 October. Two pre-sales are being offered with an American Express pre-sale running from 9 am local time, Wednesday 12 October and a Secret Sounds Pre-Sale   running from 9 am local time, Thursday 13 October.

The 1975 At Their Very Best  Australian Tour 

Saturday 8 April 2023 – Red Hill Auditorium, Perth

Monday 10 April 2023 – Aec Theatre, Adelaide

Wednesday 12 April 2023 – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

Friday 14 April 2023 – Aware Super Theatre, Sydney

Saturday 15 April 2023 – Riverstage, Brisbane

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The 1975 are back. This Friday, they unveil their fifth album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’ – and next year they’ll be back Down Under to tour the record .

Next April’s arena tour of Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will mark the newest chapter in The 1975’s love affair with Australia, one that began a mere year after the British band released their debut album. Matty Healy , George Daniel and co. have made it a point to earn their fans here – and the country has enthusiastically reciprocated their efforts, filling ever bigger venues and pushing them to the top of the ARIA charts not once but twice. Australian musicians, too, from the likes of The Faim to Wave Racer and Northlane’s Marcus Bridge , have shown The 1975 plenty of love.

Our brief inquiry (yes) into The 1975’s history with Australia begins with Healy, who actually lived in Melbourne for a spell as a child . Now 33, Healy resided in the city between the ages of two to four, so he’s probably too young to remember it – but has more than made up for it in the years since. The 1975 put in the hard yards here early on in their career, touring Australia yearly between 2014 and 2016. They made their debut in the country with a splash – at Big Day Out 2014, which would turn out to be the last hurrah for the beloved touring festival. Though they were small fry on that BDO line-up, overshadowed then by the titanic likes of Pearl Jam , Arcade Fire and Blur , in hindsight it’s fitting that they’d start their fruitful relationship with Australia at one of the country’s most iconic and beloved music festivals .

The 1975’s ascent in this period was rapid. In 2014 alone they sold out the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney for a BDO sideshow, then six months later returned to the city to play the Metro Theatre, which was swiftly upgraded to the Enmore. By 2016, they were playing the Hordern Pavilion and made it to the third line of the Splendour In The Grass line-up poster. That year, they officially became chart-toppers in Australia, shooting to the apex of the ARIA Album Chart within a week of releasing sophomore record ‘​​I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It’. (By comparison, debut album ‘The 1975’ peaked just within the top 30 – two years after its release.)

Not content with this stratospheric rise, The 1975 even wanted to tour Australia again in 2017 , telling a Sydney crowd in mid-2016 that they’d be back the following year. Alas, that didn’t transpire , the band’s manager Jamie Oborne apologetically telling fans on Twitter within months that they “tried very hard but couldn’t find a way of doing it”. It would be three years before The 1975 returned, but they made it worth the wait.

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The 1975 returned to Australia in late 2019 on the Music For Cars Tour with yet another ARIA-charting album under their belt, ‘A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships’ (which peaked at number 4), and then in February 2020 as bonafide festival headliners. They topped the Laneway Festival bill alongside Charli XCX , bringing along session multi-instrumentalists and backup dancers to fully realise their euphoric, triumphant set. In Sydney, Healy even nodded to Kurt Cobain by donning a hospital gown and dragging an IV drip out onstage with him (he’d been hospitalised for illness in Brisbane , forcing the band to cancel their Laneway set in that city).

While they were in Australia for the festival, The 1975 logged some studio time in Brisbane and Sydney – the results of which made it onto their 2020 album, ‘Notes on a Conditional Form’ . That record – their second ARIA No. 1 – featured a speech by climate activist Greta Thunberg, which they played during their Laneway Sydney set to raised fists and solemn solidarity. The 1975’s time in Australia during this period, too, was notable for the time they made for environmental activism. While in Sydney for Laneway, the band announced an impromptu bushfire benefit gig , where Healy delivered a unique, acoustic set to a crowd of 2,000. And in 2019, members of the band attended a climate strike in Melbourne. “It was quite emotional just seeing that whole Generation Z,” Healy said later of the experience . “There were so many people, and there were so many young people, and it was quite a hopeful environment.”

Laneway Festival in 2020 was one of the last large-scale music festivals to take place in Australia before the pandemic shut everything down for two years. Even in isolation, though, Aussies were listening to The 1975: ‘If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)’ made it to one list of the country’s most-streamed songs throughout lockdown . As lockdown becomes a thing of the past and the live music machine in the country roars back to life, it was only a matter of time that The 1975 would announce a tour. They’ve hardly been able to stay away in the last eight years. With all the love Australia has shown them, why would they?

The 1975’s new album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’ is out this Friday via Dirty Hit . Tickets to their 2023 tour of Australia and New Zealand go on sale the same day at 11am local time – get yours here

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The 1975 Have Announced a 2023 Australian Tour

By Alex Gallagher

The 1975 have announced they’ll return to Australia in April of next year for their first visit since 2020, touring in support of forthcoming album  Being Funny in a Foreign Language .

The British pop-rock stars will kick off the tour on Saturday, 8th April at Perth’s Red Hill Auditorium, before shows in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. The tour will then head to New Zealand for shows in Wellington and Auckland. See dates and details below. Tickets are on sale next Friday, 14th October at 11am local time, with American Express and Secret Sounds pre-sales earlier next week.

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The 1975 last toured Australia in early 2020, when they headlined that year’s edition of Laneway Festival alongside Charli XCX . The band were forced to cancel their appearance at the Brisbane show due to front person Matty Healy falling ill. A few months after the Laneway tour, The 1975 released their fourth album Notes on a Conditional Form .

Earlier this year, The 1975 announced their fifth album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language . It’s set to arrive on Friday, 14th October, and the band have shared four singles so far: ‘Part of the Band’ in July, ‘Happiness’ in August, and ‘I’m in Love with You’ and All I Need to Hear’ in September.

The 1975 ‘At Their Very Best’ 2023 Australian Tour

• Saturday, 8th April – Red Hill Auditorium, Perth
• Tickets: Moshtix
• Monday, 10th April – AEC Theatre, Adelaide
• Tickets: Ticketek
• Wednesday, 12th April – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
• Friday, 14th April – Aware Super Theatre, Sydney
• Tickets: Ticketmaster
• Saturday, 15th April 2023 – Riverstage, Brisbane

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Acclaimed English rockers The 1975 have officially sold out the Sydney date on their highly anticipated Australian tour in April 2023. Due to this huge demand, we are excited to announce a second and final Sydney show to the tour on Sunday 16th April. Sydney fans; sign up for presale access:

Presale available from 9am local Thursday 19 January, with tickets on sale to the general public from 9am local Friday 20 January.

Being Funny In A Foreign Language is the bands third Australian chart-topper and fourth top five debut – I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it (2016) peaked at #1, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (2018) debuted at #4, while Notes On A Conditional Form (2020) also took out the top spot.

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The 1975 are at their very best for a brand new Australian tour

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  JAN 17, 2023 UPDATE: Due to high demand, Secret Sounds has just announced that they've added a second and final Sydney date to the 1975’s Australian tour this April. The band will now also perform at Qudos Bank Arena  at Sydney Olympic Park   on   Sunday, April 16. Pre-sales for the new date are available now, before tickets open to the general public at 9am local time, Friday, January 20 via  secretsounds.com.

Any fans wanting to catch The 1975 on their long awaited Australian tour are encouraged to jump on tickets now as all shows are selling fast.

English rockers  t he 1975 are heading to Sydney as part of an Australian tour next April. For the first time in three years, they're heading to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane on a muti-date tour to celebrate their  forthcoming album,  Being Funny in a Foreign Language,  to be released on October 14, 2022.

The run of shows will see the band hit Sydney on Friday, April 14 for one night only, to perform recent singles like  ‘All I Need to Hear’, ‘I’m in Love with You’, ‘Happiness’ and ‘Part of the Band’, as well as past hits and tracks from their previous album,  2020’s  Notes on a Conditional Form , which hit #1 in Australia.

Tickets for the 1975's Aussie shows go on sale to the general public from 11am local time, Friday October 14. Stay tuned to the   official website   for all the details, or to enter the pre-sale.

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