Howard Jones - The Human's Lib and Dream Into Action Australian Tour 2012
Celebrated British singer-songwriter Howard Jones, a regular chart-topper in the mid-80s with his own brand of SynthPop, is touring Australia in September 2012, performing his first two albums Human's Lib and Dream Into Action, two classic albums that defined a generation, live and in full, for the first time.
His show will feature the songs recreated using modern and classic synthesisers. The hits included will be New Song, What Is Love?, Pearl In The Shell, Hide & Seek, Like To Get To Know You Well, Things Can Only Get Better, Look Mama, Life In One Day, No One Is To Blame and many others.
Presented by Abstract Entertainment, The Human's Lib and Dream Into Action Australian Tour is part of a World Tour following the highly-successful USA, Canada and U.K sell-out tours.
Tickets on Sale - Tuesday 8th May, 2012
Sep 5 - Perth, Astor Theatre - tickets from Bocs Ticketing
Sep 6 - Adelaide, The Gov - tickets from The Gov
Sep 7 - Billboard, Melbourne - tickets from Ticketek
Sep 8 - The Tivoli, Brisbane - tickets from Ticketek
Sep 3 - Castle Hill RSL Club - tickets from Castle Hill RSL
Sep 14 - The Metro, Sydney - tickets from Ticketek
Sep 15 - Bankstown Sports Club - tickets from the Bankstown Sports Club
Sep 16 - Fairfield RSL Club - tickets from the Fairfield RSL Club
Background on Howard Jones
It was in 1983 that Howard Jones first burst upon the contemporary music scene with his very English song-writing and pioneering synthesizers. Anyone who was around in the mid to late-eighties will remember those high energy gigs and his first two albums "Human’s Lib" and "Dream into Action". They lived in the higher reaches of the album charts in the U.K, USA, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Australia and many other countries in the 1984-86 period, and the hits kept coming…….."New Song", "What is Love?", "Pearl in the Shell", "Hide and Seek", (which he performed at Live Aid in 1985), "Like to Get to Know You Well", "Look Mama", "Things Can Only Get Better", "Everlasting Love" and the quintessential "No One is To Blame", which reached No.1 in the USA.
Now HOWARD JONES has re-mastered those first two classic albums ‘Human’s Lib’ and ‘Dream into Action’ and played them both live in their entirety for the first time on November 6th 2010 at the IndigO2 in London’s O2 Arena Complex. This two-album show is being repeated throughout 2011 and 2012 at selected venues. The re-mastered albums are available from www.howardjones.com. A special re-mastered box set of the 12” mixes was released in March 2011 and a DVD of the IndigO2 concert was released in October 2011. In April 2012 the third box set in the trilogy was released which features re-mastered versions of the next three albums ‘One to One’, ‘Cross that Line’ and ‘In The Running’.
A classically trained pianist, Howard Jones applied his technique to the early synths particularly the Roland Juno 60, the Jupiter 8 and the Moog Prodigy. He also pioneered the classic Roland 808 drum machine and the Sequential Pro-One. In the early days he was triggering sequencers live on stage whilst playing and singing, something that no one had done before.
These days he still operates on the cutting edge of technology and has been one of the leading exponents of the Roland Fantom G8 and the Roland V-piano. Many contemporary giants of the dance world have shown interest in working with Howard which has resulted in tracks such as ‘And Do You Feel Scared?’ with Eric Prydz, ‘Into the Dark’ with Ferry Corsten and a 2012 collaboration with Grum.
Howard Jones continues to tour extensively and will be playing multiple dates and festivals in 2012 with Robbie Bronnimann on live sequencing/sampling and effects using Ableton Live and various controllers, and Jonathan Atkinson on electronic drums. On 21st June HOWARD JONES will be playing at the Isle of Wight Festival in the U.K.
Always one to take chances, Howard Jones continues to write great songs inspired by his Buddhist beliefs as is evident on his latest studio album ‘Ordinary Heroes’ which features a string quartet on every track and one of the best Welsh male voice choirs in the world The Morriston on the song ‘Soon You’ll Go’.
But 2012 will mark the return of one of the true eighties icons and godfathers of modern electronic dance music in full electric mode - Howard Jones.
If you were too young the first time around it’ll be a chance to find out where all those beats and sounds came from, and if you were around it’ll bring all those memories flooding back.
His show will feature the songs recreated using modern and classic synthesisers. The hits included will be New Song, What Is Love?, Pearl In The Shell, Hide & Seek, Like To Get To Know You Well, Things Can Only Get Better, Look Mama, Life In One Day, No One Is To Blame and many others.
Presented by Abstract Entertainment, The Human's Lib and Dream Into Action Australian Tour is part of a World Tour following the highly-successful USA, Canada and U.K sell-out tours.
Tickets on Sale - Tuesday 8th May, 2012
Sep 5 - Perth, Astor Theatre - tickets from Bocs Ticketing
Sep 6 - Adelaide, The Gov - tickets from The Gov
Sep 7 - Billboard, Melbourne - tickets from Ticketek
Sep 8 - The Tivoli, Brisbane - tickets from Ticketek
Sep 3 - Castle Hill RSL Club - tickets from Castle Hill RSL
Sep 14 - The Metro, Sydney - tickets from Ticketek
Sep 15 - Bankstown Sports Club - tickets from the Bankstown Sports Club
Sep 16 - Fairfield RSL Club - tickets from the Fairfield RSL Club
Background on Howard Jones
It was in 1983 that Howard Jones first burst upon the contemporary music scene with his very English song-writing and pioneering synthesizers. Anyone who was around in the mid to late-eighties will remember those high energy gigs and his first two albums "Human’s Lib" and "Dream into Action". They lived in the higher reaches of the album charts in the U.K, USA, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Australia and many other countries in the 1984-86 period, and the hits kept coming…….."New Song", "What is Love?", "Pearl in the Shell", "Hide and Seek", (which he performed at Live Aid in 1985), "Like to Get to Know You Well", "Look Mama", "Things Can Only Get Better", "Everlasting Love" and the quintessential "No One is To Blame", which reached No.1 in the USA.
Now HOWARD JONES has re-mastered those first two classic albums ‘Human’s Lib’ and ‘Dream into Action’ and played them both live in their entirety for the first time on November 6th 2010 at the IndigO2 in London’s O2 Arena Complex. This two-album show is being repeated throughout 2011 and 2012 at selected venues. The re-mastered albums are available from www.howardjones.com. A special re-mastered box set of the 12” mixes was released in March 2011 and a DVD of the IndigO2 concert was released in October 2011. In April 2012 the third box set in the trilogy was released which features re-mastered versions of the next three albums ‘One to One’, ‘Cross that Line’ and ‘In The Running’.
A classically trained pianist, Howard Jones applied his technique to the early synths particularly the Roland Juno 60, the Jupiter 8 and the Moog Prodigy. He also pioneered the classic Roland 808 drum machine and the Sequential Pro-One. In the early days he was triggering sequencers live on stage whilst playing and singing, something that no one had done before.
These days he still operates on the cutting edge of technology and has been one of the leading exponents of the Roland Fantom G8 and the Roland V-piano. Many contemporary giants of the dance world have shown interest in working with Howard which has resulted in tracks such as ‘And Do You Feel Scared?’ with Eric Prydz, ‘Into the Dark’ with Ferry Corsten and a 2012 collaboration with Grum.
Howard Jones continues to tour extensively and will be playing multiple dates and festivals in 2012 with Robbie Bronnimann on live sequencing/sampling and effects using Ableton Live and various controllers, and Jonathan Atkinson on electronic drums. On 21st June HOWARD JONES will be playing at the Isle of Wight Festival in the U.K.
Always one to take chances, Howard Jones continues to write great songs inspired by his Buddhist beliefs as is evident on his latest studio album ‘Ordinary Heroes’ which features a string quartet on every track and one of the best Welsh male voice choirs in the world The Morriston on the song ‘Soon You’ll Go’.
But 2012 will mark the return of one of the true eighties icons and godfathers of modern electronic dance music in full electric mode - Howard Jones.
If you were too young the first time around it’ll be a chance to find out where all those beats and sounds came from, and if you were around it’ll bring all those memories flooding back.