Pavement announce Australian tour
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14.09.2022

Pavement announce Australian tour

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Credit: Tarina Westlund

One of the most influential bands of the last three decades returns to Australia in February and March 2023.

One of the most popular and influential bands to come out of the American underground in the last three decades is returning to Australia next year. In their first live shows in Australia since 2010, Pavement have just announced shows for Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Thirroul, Sydney and Melbourne.

Pavement Australian Tour 2023

  • February 22 – Perth, Concert Hall
  • February 24 – Adelaide, Thebarton Theatre
  • February 28 – Brisbane, Fortitude Music Hall
  • March 1 – Thirroul, Anita’s Theatre
  • March 2 – Sydney, Enmore Theatre
  • March 3 – Melbourne, Palais Theatre

Check out Melbourne’s most comprehensive gig guide here.

Recently celebrating the 30th anniversary of seminal 1992 debut album Slanted and Enchanted, Pavement will return to Australia in summer 2023. As well as their headline dates, the band will also perform at ‘musical jamboree’ Tent Pole in Geelong (VIC), and Hobart’s MONA FOMA (TAS). The band – Stephen Malkmus, Scott ‘Spiral Stairs’ Kannberg, Mark Ibold, Bob Nastanovich and Steve West – kicked off an extensive North American tour last week.

‘Cut Your Hair’, ‘Range Life’, ‘Gold Soundz’, ‘Stereo’, ‘Shady Lane’, ‘Spit On A Stranger’… Pavement’s enduring influence was on show when they made their long-awaited live return at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound in June 2022, more than a decade since they last reunited.

Pavement’s catalogue has seen a myriad of incarnations and bonus material unearthed, including career-spanning 2010 compilation Quarantine The Past, 2015 rarities collection A Secret History, Vol 1, deluxe editions of the band’s first four studio albums, and a 2019 picture disc commemorating the 25th anniversary of Wowee Zowee. Most recently, in April 2022 Matador Records dropped the deluxe reissue of Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal – an exhaustive 45-track compilation featuring the remastered album, B-sides, home demos, rehearsal tapes, live recordings, and even rough tracks from the band’s scrapped session at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studio. April 2022 also saw the band’s first music video in 23 years, with 1999 b-side ‘Harness Your Hopes’ a viral and streaming hit, amassing 80+ million streams on Spotify to date and trending on TikTok. ​

Frontier Members Presale kicks off Monday 19 September at 12pm (local time), before the General Public on sale Wednesday 21 September (1pm local time). Grab your tickets here.