One of Australia’s hottest live acts Holy Holy has announced a national tour that includes a show at the Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle on November 17.
The band took to their Facebook page to make the announcement with the following video.
Classic songs. Sold-out headline shows. International gigs. Raves from radio programmers, journalists, and bloggers… Australian duo HOLY HOLY have experienced much even before launching an album. But now their debut, When The Storms Would Come, is finally here – and it’s vaster, and wilder than anything they’ve aired to date. “It’s been such a long journey with this record,” HOLY HOLY’s frontman Timothy Carroll declares. ‘…and it feels like we’re ready to release it.”
Carroll, from Brisbane, and Melbournian guitarist/composer Oscar Dawson initially crossed paths as volunteer English teachers in Southeast Asia. They reconnected in 2011 while both again leading transient lives in Europe. Carroll, an acclaimed singer/songwriter, was living in Stockholm. Dawson had transplanted to Berlin with his then band Dukes Of Windsor. When Dawson traveled to Sweden, Carroll asked him to assist with some songs. They ended up with a “suite of demos”. The pair continued collaborating back in Australia. “At that stage, we weren’t even really sure what the project was going to be,” Carroll admits. “We were just feeling our way through it.” Regardless, the duo began penning darker, more intense material. The newly anointed HOLY HOLY issued the psychedelic, if foreboding, Impossible Like You as their first single, attracting triple j spins – and buzz. And it’s been an exciting and event-filled 2 years since…
In 2014 the “project” morphed into a full live band, enlisting drummer Ryan Strathie (ex-Hungry Kids Of Hungary) and bassist Graham Ritchie (Airling’s collaborator).
Tickets are on sale now.
