The Shins to play two Splendour sideshows - Tickets on Sale NOW!
Handsome Tours are very excited to announce the welcome return of their old friends The Sins to Australia this July. Armed with new material from their acclaimed fourth album Port Of Morrow, the band will perform at Splendour In The Grass, plus headline shows at Festival Hall in Melbourne and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney.
It’s been a busy start to the year for the Portland based five piece, with the band currently in the midst of an extensive US tour to celebrate the release of Port Of Morrow. The album has been five years in the making, following on from their 2007 LP Wincing The Night Away, and was recorded throughout 2011 with band leader James Mercer handling all songwriting duties, lead vocals and the majority of instrumentation.
The Shins formed in 1996, when Mercer began writing what would eventually become the bands first record. Their first single ‘Nature Bears A Vacuum’ was released with no expectations, however it generated enough attention that at a performance supporting Modest Mouse in 2000, Sub Pop’s Jonathan Poneman asked the band to contribute to the label’s ‘Single of the Month Club’. This relationship eventually extended to Sub Pop releasing the bands 2001 single ‘New Slang’, and their debut album Oh, Inverted World. It received critical acclaim for its lyrically deft and jangly pop sound, with several songs featuring prominently on the soundtrack for the 2004 film Garden State, exposing the music of The Shins to a much wider audience.
Their sophomore record Chutes Too Narrow was released in the fall of 2003 to much fanfare in indie music circles, exploring new genres, song structures, and levels of production fidelity. The band’s third album, Wincing the Night Away, was recorded during 2006 by a largely solo Mercer. It debuted at number 2 in the US, the highest chart position Sub Pop has ever achieved. Port of Morrow was released in March 2012, having so far stemmed the singles ‘Simple Song’ and ‘The Rifle’s Spiral’.
Tickets to these two very special Splendour Sideshows are on sale now and selling FAST!
Mon 23 July - Melbourne, Festival Hall - tickets from Ticketmaster
Wed 25 July - Sydney, Horden Pavillion - tickets from Ticketek
It’s been a busy start to the year for the Portland based five piece, with the band currently in the midst of an extensive US tour to celebrate the release of Port Of Morrow. The album has been five years in the making, following on from their 2007 LP Wincing The Night Away, and was recorded throughout 2011 with band leader James Mercer handling all songwriting duties, lead vocals and the majority of instrumentation.
The Shins formed in 1996, when Mercer began writing what would eventually become the bands first record. Their first single ‘Nature Bears A Vacuum’ was released with no expectations, however it generated enough attention that at a performance supporting Modest Mouse in 2000, Sub Pop’s Jonathan Poneman asked the band to contribute to the label’s ‘Single of the Month Club’. This relationship eventually extended to Sub Pop releasing the bands 2001 single ‘New Slang’, and their debut album Oh, Inverted World. It received critical acclaim for its lyrically deft and jangly pop sound, with several songs featuring prominently on the soundtrack for the 2004 film Garden State, exposing the music of The Shins to a much wider audience.
Their sophomore record Chutes Too Narrow was released in the fall of 2003 to much fanfare in indie music circles, exploring new genres, song structures, and levels of production fidelity. The band’s third album, Wincing the Night Away, was recorded during 2006 by a largely solo Mercer. It debuted at number 2 in the US, the highest chart position Sub Pop has ever achieved. Port of Morrow was released in March 2012, having so far stemmed the singles ‘Simple Song’ and ‘The Rifle’s Spiral’.
Tickets to these two very special Splendour Sideshows are on sale now and selling FAST!
Mon 23 July - Melbourne, Festival Hall - tickets from Ticketmaster
Wed 25 July - Sydney, Horden Pavillion - tickets from Ticketek