The National live at Manchester Apollo (Gary Mather / Live4ever)
The National‘s plans for their new album I Am Easy To Find have jumped into 2020 with an Australasian tour.
The band will head down under for the usual stops in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Auckland during March and April next year, propping up an album which Live4ever observed has a title which ‘begs analysis’: “A task The National’s serious and mindful fans will doubtless take on with particular relish,” it continues.
“Literally, it’s the reassuring cry of a gentle friend when in need but scratch the surface and the listener is left with questions: how much of this relationship is real, and how much is imagined?”
“What cherished notions of the past can still be relied upon? Maybe, as it turns out, we never knew them at all and this radicalism is a glimpse behind the curtain as the last threads of 20th century rock are consigned to memory.”
New tour dates:
March 2020
21 – Perth, Fremantle Arts Centre
24,25 – Sydney, ICC Theatre
27 – Brisbane, Fortitude Music Hall
30,31 – Melbourne, Palais Theatre
April 2020
1 – Melbourne, Palais Theatre
3,4 – Auckland, ASB Theatre