Royal Blood (Photo: Lloyd Hendricks for Live4ever Media)
Royal Blood will head back to Australia and New Zealand next year.
The duo’s latest trip down under starts on April 24th, 2018 at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, and is then due to visit Auckland, Wellington, Brisbane and Melbourne. The final show is on May 13th at Perth’s HBF Stadium.
Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher’s new album How Did We Get So Dark? left a future dilemma of needing to ‘grab the bull by the horns, and kill or be killed‘ according to Live4ever’s review:
“When you’re consciously trading on image free, the other side of the success equation needs to be music which can be easily digested, and a couple of listens to Why Did We Get So Dark? quickly reveals that pragmatism has shaped it rather than a desire to fix the unbroken. Clocking in at an attention span minded thirty five minutes or so, like its predecessor there’s a familiar economy at work, both in terms of creative vista and song-craft.”
“What the two have tweaked is to generally turn everything up to 12; Kerr’s crunching riffage is now brutal to the point of mild hysteria. On the titular opener he sits this muddy, unrelenting low end against his own puckish vocals, the falsetto harmonies ascendant with the middle ground a vacuum where no prisoners are taken.”
“This sort of precision hitting turns the grind of Where Are You Now? and its early 70’s power vibe into a the briefest of love letters to modern retro, whilst Lights Out throbs with familiarly tortured blues chords, sounding anything like the post breakup defiance its words suggest.”
Tour dates:
April 2018
24 – Sydney, Hordern Pavilion
May 2018
1 – Auckland, Logan Campbell Centre
3 – Wellington, TSB Bank Arena
7 – Brisbane, Riverstage
9 – Melbourne, Margaret Court Arena
13 – Perth, HBF Stadium