Crowded House add Geelong to national tour

MUSIC legends Crowded house have just announced new dates and locations for their Australian Dreamers Are Waiting Tour later this year, including A Day on The Green in Geelong.

Presented by Roundhouse Entertainment in conjunction with Live Nation, Crowded House will be be joined by Angus & Julia Stone and The Waifs at Mount Duneed Estate on April 23.

The Australian tour follows their 2021 New Zealand tour during which they played to full houses, rapturous audiences and universal critical acclaim, and mark Crowded House’s first national Australian tour since 2010, and only their third Australian tour during the last 15 years.

CROWDED HOUSE were awarded Best Adult Contemporary Album for Dreamers Are Waiting at the 2021 ARIA Awards, and nominated for Best Record at the Sailor Jerry Rolling Stone Awards 2022, which will be held in Sydney on March 30.

Tickets for the new shows go on sale at 11am on Thursday, February, 24 from Ticketmaster.

Crowded House unveiled a new line-up last year, featuring founding members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour along with producer and keyboardist Mitchell Froom, guitarist and singer Liam Finn and drummer Elroy Finn.

They released their seventh studio album Dreamers Are Waiting last June, featuring the singles “Whatever You Want”, “Playing With Fire”, “To The Island”, “Love Isn’t Hard At All” and latest offering “Sweet Tooth”.

Crowded House is a long-standing and much-loved vehicle for the song writing talents of Neil Finn. Formed in Melbourne Australia in 1985 out the ashes of New Zealand’s Split Enz by Neil, Paul Hester and Nick Seymour, their eponymous self-titled debut album on Capitol Records went on to global success with the hits “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and “Something So Strong”. Those songs and many that followed are still resonating with audiences today; the former, in particular, being one of the most covered songs of the past 30 years. The band’s first incarnation lasted from 1985 through 1995, produced four studio albums and enjoyed much success worldwide, becoming particularly beloved for their freewheeling and interactive live shows. This line-up said Farewell to the World on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in 1996 with a now-legendary performance in front of 150,000 people.

In 2005 following the tragic death of Paul Hester, Neil and Nick felt emotionally compelled to bring Crowded House back, to put some more “good history”, as they described it, into the story of the band. Drafting in new drummer Matt Sherrod and with long-time touring member Mark Hart they released the album Time On Earth to critical acclaim and toured the world. Another album, Intriguer, was recorded in 2009 and Crowded House was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2016, at the same time reprising its Farewell shows at the Sydney Opera House with four nights of performances, the last of which was broadcast nationally on ABC TV.