Everclear: Massive Australian Tour Announced For Next Year...

In just-announced, wonderful news, American alt-rock juggernauts Everclear have announced an extensive seventeen-date Australian tour, and it’s going to mean everything to everyone… Fresh from a year of gigging their thirtieth anniversary tour around the U.S, it’s Australia’s turn to live the glory days.

The multi-platinum band that helped shape the nineties punk rock scene will kick off their Australian tour with a four-date Queensland leg playing Ipswich, Gold Coast, Brisbane, and Townsville. They then head down the East coast through NSW and Victoria, through South Australia and finish up in Western Australia.

“After spending the better part of 2022 celebrating our thirtieth anniversary as a band, releasing our remastered debut album World of Noise on digital platforms for the first time ever, and recently releasing our new single Year of the Tiger, we are so excited to be coming back to our home away from home with the largest and most inclusive Australian tour we have ever done,” said frontman Art Alexakis.

“By mixing it up and digging into the catalogue, it still makes it fun and relevant for us, and I think for the fans as well,” said Alexakis. “It’s still important to play the hits, but by playing those other songs as well, it makes it all seem more vibrant and real.

“Even though I recorded some of those songs over twenty years ago, I haven’t played them in a long time, so it’s like reinventing the wheel. I’m having more fun now than I have in years. I think all of us are.”

Fans will be treated to some of the band’s top forty singles such as Santa Monica, Father of Mine, I Will Buy You A New Life, Wonderful and Everything To Everyone as well as their new material.

Their new single Year of the Tiger followed their 2015 album Black is the New Black and sees them screaming back onto the scene with a politically-charged, riff-heavy rallying call.

“After all of the events of the last almost three years with Covid, worldwide shutdowns, the political debacle of 2020 emanating from in and outside of MAGA world, I felt I needed to write a song that not just explained my anger and frustration, but a song that served as a mission statement,” said Alexakis about the single.

“I feel like the tiger should be the new symbol of the new Democratic party. We will not back down, we will not forget, we hit back, we challenge lies, and we refuse to be intimidated by ignorance or loud voices.”