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Big Dog
Entertainment are proud to present platinum selling, US pop rockers Gin
Blossoms on their first ever Australian tour.
Fuelled by
mega-hits including Hey Jealousy, Found Out About You and from
the Empire Records movie soundtrack Til I Hear It From You, Tempe
Arizona quintet Gin Blossoms completed the classic crossover from
college-circuit heroes to multi-platinum album sellers in the 1990's. Most
recently featuring on the massive Summerland Tour in the US with the likes of
Everclear, Sugar Ray, LIT and Marcy Playground, Gin Blossoms will rock
Australian audiences live for the very first time in 2013.
After their
inception in 1987 Gin Blossom's hometown following in Tempe, Arizona grew
quickly as the band earned a deserved reputation as a killer live act. Readers
of the Phoenix New Times chose them as the city's best rock band qualifying
them to play at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas in March,
1989. Later that year, College Music Journal dubbed them the "Best
Unsigned Band in America" and invited them to play MTV's New Music Awards
in New York City.
Major label
interest quickly followed, their initial releases on A&M Records included
Up and Crumbling in 1991 and the multi-platinum selling New Miserable
Experience in 1992 featuring the single, Hey Jealousy which peaked at
#25 on Billboard Hot 100. Four more singles followed Mrs. Rita, Found
Out About You, Allison Road and Until I Fall Away. With NME
having sold nearly 3 million copies in the US alone, the Gin Blossoms became a
band to be reckoned with.
In 1995 the band
founded further widespread acclaim with the single Til I Hear It From You which
was included on the soundtrack to the classic coming-of-age film Empire
Records. Shooting into the number 11 spot on the Billboard Hottest 100,
Billboard Magazine called the single "the closest thing to a perfect pop
song to hit radio in recent memory," and commented on its "breezy and
wonderfully infectious melody, the boy-needs-girl lyrics, and the earnest
execution."
Congratulations I'm
Sorry, which was released in 1996, was the Blossom's final original album of
the decade bringing them two more hits … Follow You Down which spent ten
weeks in the Top Ten and As Long As It Matters which earned the group a
Grammy nomination for "Best Performance by a Duo or Group." The album
debuted in Billboard's Top Ten and a year of touring helped put the record past
1,500,000 units sold.
The group then took
a lengthy hiatus before embarking on an eighty-date US tour in 2002. “We have
not stopped touring 100+ shows a year since December of 2001. Playing live
gives us the most pleasure, this much we all agree” says Robin Wilson. 2006 saw
the release of Major Lodge Victory which captured two more top 40 singles Learning
The Hard Way and Long Time Gone. Billboard called the album “an
effortless triumph of melodic perfection.” Their most recent album, 2010 No
Chocolate Cake, again landed Gin’s back on the singles chart with Miss
Disarray and the album charted to # 1 on Amazon. Now in Summer 2013 Gin
Blossoms will bringing their perfect pop to fans in Australia for the very
first time for what is sure to be a run of memorable shows in Melbourne,
Brisbane Sydney and Perth.
KillRockStar BigDog Entertainment
presents
Australian Tour 2013
*Tickets on sale Friday 26th
October 2012
Gin Blossoms Australian Tour 2013
Thursday 7th February 2013 HiFi. Melbourne
Friday 8th February 2013 HiFi. Brisbane
Saturday 9th February 2013 HiFi. Sydney
Sun 10th February 2013 Capital. Perth
