Parkway Drive are taking things right back to their roots with a special tour which will see them performing their first two albums in full.
It feels like the roots of this announcement can be found in the core of their recent 20th anniversary arena shows, where they would perform a medley of tracks from ‘Killing With A Smile’ to rapturous reaction. That looked a bit like this every night.
Well, now the band are bringing not just that record but also 2007’s ‘Horizons’ to stages across Australia. Two nights in every city, one album a night. Oh, and there will also be plenty of hits, too.
Vocalist Winston McCall had this to say about the event, stating, “This idea kicked off when we started working on the ‘KWAS’ medley for our last tour. Revisiting ‘Killing With A Smile’ with a fresh perspective lit a spark that remained after we finished up, so we figured rather than let the spark die, let’s take it and create something special. For all the people who have waited to hear these songs live again, for all the people that never got the chance to see these two albums on stage, for ourselves reconnecting with the core energy at the heart of this band, this tour is for all of us. Some of these songs haven’t been played live in over a decade, some have never been played at all. You wanted it, now you got it, so let’s make this moment worth the wait.”
Here are all the dates:
AUGUST
01 – PERTH Metro City (Killing With A Smile)
02 – PERTH Metro City (Horizons)
04 – ADELAIDE Hindley St Music Hall (Killing With A Smile)
05 – ADELAIDE Hindley St Music Hall (Horizons)
09 -MELBOURNE Forum (Killing With A Smile)
10 – MELBOURNE Forum (Horizons)
12 – SYDNEY Enmore Theatre (Killing With A Smile)
13 – SYDNEY Enmore Theatre (Horizons)
15 – BRISBANE Fortitude Music Hall (Killing With A Smile)
16 – BRISBANE Fortitude Music Hall (Horizons)
Tickets will be on general sale from June 25 at 10am local time.
The band last released new music last year around their 20th anniversary tour in the form of ‘Sacred’. That sounds a lot like this:
We chatted to vocalist Winston McCall all about the tour and the celebration on an episode of 7of30, which you can check out below:
