Mistletone and Remote Control are rapt to announce that Kurt Vile will be stopping by the picturesque Meeniyan Town Hall as part of his supreme solo tour. Kurt Vile makes the journey to the South Gippsland township of Meeniyan on Sunday March 5 for a magnificently intimate show in the old-timey surrounds of Meeniyan Town Hall, following his fast-selling Zoo Twilights show at Melbourne Zoo the night before. Very limited tickets on sale now.
Since releasing his debut solo album Constant Hitmaker in 2008, Kurt Vile has ascended to an elevated stature as one of the most accomplished and charismatic songwriters of our time. A firm favourite with Australian audiences, KV has packed out rooms across Australia (including Sydney Opera House earlier this year, with his band The Violators).
Kurt’s latest album b’lieve i’m goin down…, released last year via Matador / Remote Control, won universal acclaim; The AV Club called “the purest distillation of Vile’s idiosyncratic style to date”, and Pitchfork bestowed it Best New Music, noting: “Kurt Vile has a persona, and you know him by now: He is the weird quiet kid in the corner, the one who seems at first lost in his own world and disconnected from everything around him, but turns out to be smart, observant, and low-key hilarious. So while his albums draw you in with the vibe—the impeccably recorded and mixed songs that shuffle bits of folk, new wave, or country in the mix but are always squarely down-the-middle rock—you return to them for their human qualities, the way they offer a manner of seeing the world, a glimpse at a perspective that feels both voyeuristic and easy to connect to your own life.”
Last year, Kurt told Rolling Stone that he wanted b’lieve i’m goin down… “to sound like it’s on my couch”, citing Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush as a reference point. “Not in a lo-fi way,” he explained, “just more unguarded and vulnerable. I wanted it to feel like I was on a couch in a familiar living room even if I was somewhere else. To me, it’s sort of that home vibe that I had to capture somehow…to make it sound like it was played there in the room.”
This intimate and immediate power that Kurt Vile’s songs possess is one of the qualities that KV fans hold dear to their hearts, and it will be in generous supply on this rare and auspicious occasion of a Kurt Vile solo tour.
Tuesday 28th February – Perth Festival, Perth, WA **SELLING FAST**
Supported by Mick Turner
Tickets via website
Friday 3rd March – Twilight at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, NSW
Supported by Mick Turner
Tickets via website
Saturday 4th March – Zoo Twilights at Melbourne Zoo, Melbourne, VIC
Tickets via website
Sunday 5th March – Meeniyan Town Hall, Meeniyan, VIC
Supported by Mick Turner
Tickets via website
Thursday 9th March – Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, QLD
Supported by Mick Turner
Tickets via website
Saturday 11th March – Golden Plains Festival, Meredith, VIC
Ticket info via website
Sunday 12th March – Panama Festival, Golconda, TAS
Ticket info via website
