Saturday, March 31st will be a busy night at The Turf Club with a sold out show featuring Gang of Youths. Last year was a colossal onefor Sydney five-piece Gang of Youths. The band released their sophomore album Go Farther In Lightness to critical acclaim, played to sold-out rooms and arenas across the world, graced the cover of Rolling Stone (AUS), and it all culminated in major wins at Australia’s ARIA Awards, where Gang of Youths came away with a total of four awards including Best Group, Best Album, Producer Of The Year and the prestigious Apple Music Album Of The Year.
The holiness of love, the chaos and rapture of surviving against all odds, these are what drive Gang of Youths. A five piece from Sydney founded in the confines of their religious youth, enchanted by the spectacle of worship and deliverance, it’s no wonder their music burns with the desperation of apocalypse. With singer Dave Le’aupepe’s lyrics drawn from some of the most miserable life experiences available to humanity, and the band’s music taking cues from rock history’s most ambitious and theatrical preachers, Gang of Youths drag the beauty out of everything from hell to high heaven.
Public Access T.V. will be opening the show. The band, comprised of frontman and lead-singer John Eatherly, Xan Aird, Max Peebles, and Pete Star, entered the studio to record the new album in fall 2017 with Producer Patrick Wimberly (Beyonce, Chairlift, MGMT, Blood Orange) armed with a plethora of songs they’d written documenting the tumultuous last few years of their lives. The first single “Metrotech” previews the more expansive palette the band is working with on their new album. “I think it’s a cop-out to say that this is our mature album, or whatever cliche thing it is that bands say about their second album.” says Eatherly. “There was no spiritual awakening or come-to-Jesus moment. We’re four young guys trying to figure our lives out, be good people, and a lot of the time find ourselves coming up short. Expressing this through songwriting is the challenge and I can only hope the deliverance.”
Kicking off the night in style will be Common Holly. Born in New York and raised in Montreal, Common Holly (AKA Brigitte Naggar) puts unpredictable compositional elements into a singer-songwriter/folk framework, packaged in textured, eclectic electro-acoustic production. Her forthcoming album, Playing House, contemplates the notion that it is conscious thought and deliberate action that defines and cements maturation from child to adult.
As mentioned, this show is sold out but make sure to keep an eye open on First Avenue’s social media pages as they often do surprise giveaways!
Remaining Tour Dates:
3/20/2018 — Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
3/23/2018 — Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
3/24/2018 — Washington, DC @ Union Stage
3/25/2018 — New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
3/28/2018 — Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground
3/29/2018 — Detroit, MI @ The Loving Touch
3/30/2018 — Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
3/31/2018 — Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
5/8/2018 — Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
5/9/2018 — Birmingham, UK @ Institute 3
5/10/2018 — Bristol, UK @ Thekla
5/12/2018 — London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
5/13/2018 — Brighton, UK @ The Haunt
5/21/2018 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Moroccan Lounge
5/22/2018 — San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
5/24/2018 — Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
5/26/2018 — Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
5/29/2018 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
5/30/2018 — Denver, CO @ Globe Hall
