FOR THEIR 24-DATE ON THE ROAD AGAIN EAST COAST REGIONAL TOUR IN JULY – AUGUST – Including Anitas Theatre Thirroul
May 12, 2021
Frontier Touring are thrilled to announce that revered Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly will be joined by his band to embark on their On The Road Again tour this July and August. The tour will see Kelly and his band tour regional towns and cities across the Australian East Coast, performing to 24 audiences over two months. Kelly’s band will be joining him on all tour dates, including Vika and Linda Bull, Bill McDonald, Peter Luscombe, Ash Naylor and Cameron Bruce.
“The band and crew and I have really missed each other over the last eighteen months as shows after shows were first postponed then cancelled. We put our toe in the water with a one off New Year’s Eve performance for TV but now we’re really looking forward to stretching out and playing music night after night. We want to see the whites of your eyes, you lovers of sound, joy and fury; we want to charge the air around us and change each other and send you home singing into the night!”
Kelly will take to the stage in Caloundra, Toowoomba, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Rockhampton, Mackay, Cairns, Port Douglas, Meeniyan, Hobart, Warrnambool, Bendigo, Geelong, Ballarat, Merimbula, Thirroul, Bathurst, Newcastle, Forster, Coffs Harbour, Tamworth and Yamba.
Inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1997, Paul Kelly is distinguished as one of Australia’s greatest performers and songwriters, with a prolific 25 studio albums, multiple film soundtracks, and two live albums to his name. 2017’s Life Is Fine saw Kelly finally achieve his first ARIA #1 album, also earning him ARIA Awards for Best Male, Best Adult Contemporary Album, Best Cover Art and Engineer Of The Year.
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In the height of the 2020 lockdown, the renowned performer got to work performing on Channel Nine’s Music From The Home Front, ABC’s The Sound TV series and the Victorian Government’s The State of Music livestream as part of the Victoria Together Initiative.
Last year also saw the release of Kelly’s album Forty Days. Performed, recorded and posted via his socials from home in lockdown, this 15-track album comprises of songs and poems, some of which were written by other artists and explore themes related to lockdown like cooking, dry pubs, hope, insomnia and separation, whilst other songs commemorate singers and poets like Bill Withers, John Prine and Bruce Dawe who have left us recently.
Never stopping, in 2020 Paul Kelly also released the album Please Leave Your Light On with Australian pianist and composer Paul Grabowsky. The studio album features twelve adaptions of Kelly’s originals, with Grabowsky describing the collaboration as primarily driven by a mutual and ongoing “fascination with music in its many forms”.
Having toured Australia countless times, both as headliner – notably on his Making Gravy tours – and as the special guest of greats like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, in 2017, Kelly was awarded the Order of Australia for his distinguished service to the performing arts and the promotion of the national identity through his contributions as singer, songwriter and musician.
Frontier Members can access their pre-sale from Tuesday 18 May, before tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday 20 May. Secure tickets early to avoid missing out!
PAUL KELLY WITH HIS BAND – ON THE ROAD AGAIN – AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Presented by Frontier Touring & Triple M (Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Mackay, Cairns, Hobart, Bendigo, Bathurst, Coffs Harbour, Gold Coast & Newcastle).
FRONTIER MEMBERS PRE-SALE
via frontiertouring.com/paulkelly
Runs 24 hours from: Tuesday 18 May (12noon AEST)
or until pre-sale allocation exhausted
GENERAL PUBLIC ON SALE
Begins: Thursday 20 May (12noon AEST)
Thursday 1 July
Kings Theatre | Caloundra, QLD
Licensed All Ages
theeventscentre.com.au | Ph: 07 5491 4240
Saturday 3 July – HOTA Theatre | Gold Coast, QLD Presented by Triple M
Licensed All Ages hota.com.au | Ph: 07 5588 4000
Sunday 4 July – Ipswich Civic Centre | Ipswich, QLD Licensed All Ages ipswichciviccentre.com.au | Ph: 07 3810 6100
Tuesday 13 July – Pilbeam Theatre | Rockhampton, QLD Presented by Triple M
Licensed All Ages seeitlive.com.au | Ph: 07 4927 4111
Wednesday 14 July
Mackay Entertainment & Convention Centre | Mackay, QLD Presented by Triple M
Licensed All Ages
themecc.com.au | Ph: 07 4961 9777
Thursday 15 July – Cairns Performing Arts Centre | Cairns, QLD Presented by Triple M
Licensed All Ages ticketlink.com.au | Ph: 1300 855 835
Saturday 17 July
Yacht Club | Port Douglas, QLD 18+ ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
Tuesday 20 July – Meeniyan Town Hall | Meeniyan, VIC All Ages oztix.com.au | Ph: 1300 762 545
Wednesday 21 July – Meeniyan Town Hall | Meeniyan, VIC All Ages oztix.com.au | Ph: 1300 762 545
Friday 23 July – Odeon Theatre | Hobart, TAS
Presented by Triple M
Licensed All Ages oztix.com.au | Ph: 1300 762 545
Tuesday 27 July – Lighthouse Theatre | Warrnambool, VIC
Licensed All Ages lighthousetheatre.com.au | Ph: 03 5559 4999
Wednesday 28 July – Lighthouse Theatre | Warrnambool, VIC Licensed All Ages lighthousetheatre.com.au | Ph: 03 5559 4999
Thursday 29 July – Ulumbarra Theatre | Bendigo, VIC Presented by Triple M
Licensed All Ages bendigoregion.com.au | Ph: 03 5434 6100
Friday 30 July – Costa Hall | Geelong, VIC
All Ages geelongartscentre.org.au | Ph: 1300 251 200
Saturday 31 July – Her Majesty’s Theatre | Ballarat, VIC
All Ages
hermaj.com | Ph: 03 5333 5888
Wednesday 4 August – Club Sapphire | Merimbula, NSW 18+ outix.com.au | Ph: 1800 068 849
Thursday 5 August – Anita’s Theatre | Thirroul, NSW 18+ ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100
Saturday 7 August – Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre | Bathurst, NSW Presented by Triple M
Licensed All Ages bmec.com.au | Ph: 02 6333 6161
Sunday 8 August – Civic Theatre | Newcastle, NSW Presented by Triple M
Licensed All Ages civictheatre.com.au | Ph: 02 4929 1977
Wednesday 11 August – Club Forster | Forster, NSW Licensed All Ages clubforster.com.au | Ph: 02 6591 6591
Thursday 12 August – The Hoey Moey | Coffs Harbour, NSW Presented by Triple M 18+ oztix.com.au | Ph: 1300 762 545
Friday 13 August – Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall | Tamworth, NSW Licensed All Ages tamworthtownhall.com.au | Ph: 02 6767 5200
Saturday 14 August – Yamba Bowling Club | Yamba, NSW 18+ yambabowlingclub.com.au | Ph: 02 6646 2305
Patrons are advised to purchase tickets only through authorised ticket sellers. We cannot guarantee any ticket purchase made through any means other than the official ticketing agents listed on the Frontier website.
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