Published on September 26th, 2024 | by Adrian Gunning
BADBADNOTGOOD Announce Return to Australia For First Headline Tour In Eight Years
Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD will make their highly anticipated return to Australia in December 2024 on the Mid Spiral Tour.
The tour begins at The Rechabite in Perth on Tuesday 3rd December, before heading to Hindley St in Adelaide on Thursday 5th, Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Saturday 7th, The Tivoli in Brisbane on Sunday 8th, and concluding at Palais Theatre in Melbourne on Wednesday 11th.
This string of dates arrives insupportable of their latest release, the Mid Spiral suite: Chaos, Order and Growth. The triplicate EP features BADBADNOTGOOD members Al Sow, Chester Hansen and Leland Whitty joined by their close friends and collaborators, BADBADNOTGOOD touring member Felix Fox-Pappas (keys), Toronto jazz musicians Kaelin Murphy (trumpet), Juan Carlos Medrano Magallenes (percussion) and LA musician Tyler Lott (guitar).
Tickets go on sale at Wednesday October 2 at 12pm (local).
Mastercard cardholders have special access to presale tickets in Australia. Mastercard Presale starts Monday 30 September, 11am and ends Wednesday 3 October, 11am. Plus, Preferred ticket access to some of the best tickets are available from Wednesday 3 October, 12pm. Check out priceless.com/music for details.
My Live Nation members can secure tickets during the pre-sale which commences at 11am on Tuesday October 1, and concludes at 11am on Wednesday, October 2.
For complete tour & ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au
BADBADNOTGOOD
MID SPIRAL AUSTRALIA TOUR 2024
THE RECHABITE, PERTH
TUESDAY DECEMBER 3
HINDLEY STREET MUSIC HALL, ADELAIDE
THURSDAY DECEMBER 5
ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY
SATURDAY DECEMBER 7
THE TIVOLI, BRISBANE
SUNDAY DECEMBER 8
PALAIS THEATRE, MELBOURNE
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11
TICKETS ON SALE 12PM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2
Mastercard pre-sale: Mon Sep 30, 11am – Wed Oct 2, 11am
Live Nation pre-sale: Tue Oct 1, 11am – Wed Oct 2, 11am
For complete tour & ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au
ABOUT BADBADNOTGOOD:
Canadian ensemble BadBadNotGood made their name by crossing genre. This seamless movement between style hit hard when they took hip hop into jazz and vice versa.
BadBadNotGood formed in 2010, moving between three and four members before establishing its current line up in 2015. The band, aka Alexander Sowinski (drums), Chester Hansen (bass) and Leland Whitty (guitar and woodwinds), met on the Humber College jazz program in Toronto. At the time, instead of working with traditional jazz standards, the group sidestepped and drew from hip hop and other contemporary genres to create a unique sound.
Their latest release Mid Spiral exploits instrumental jazz at its core seeing BADBADNOTGOOD continue to push the boundaries of how they integrate a limitless range of genres and musicianship into their compositions. For the Valentine sessions, the trio invited additional musicians to join their ensemble in order to provide more voices of instrumentation, resulting in a deeply collaborative and expansive new sound. BADBADNOTGOOD took Mid Spiral to the stage making appearances at festivals including Primavera Sound, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, Elsewhere Fest, Rose On The River Festival, Outside Lands, Bumbershoot, Life Is Beautiful, Corona Capital and more.
Since the release of BADBADNOTGOOD’s late-2021 acclaimed album Talk Memory, the group has been steady at work: the alt-jazz ensemble received their fifth GRAMMY nomination at this years awards, in January they released ‘Take What’s Given‘ featuring emerging Houston vocalist reggie, which followed a string of one-off singles with collaborators including Charlotte Day Wilson on ‘Sleeper,’ 1999 WRITE THE FUTURE, Westside Gunn plus Conway The Machine on ‘MiNt cHoCoLaTe’ and Jonah Yano on ‘the ordinary is ordinary because it ordinarily repeats.’ Further, BADBADNOTGOOD contributed to Daniel Caesar’s 2023 album Never Enough, worked with rising artist Elmiene on an edit of his single ‘Marking My Time’ and contributed to the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense tribute album with a cover of ‘This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)’ with Norah Jones.