MASSIVE NATIONAL TOUR including Wollongong
+ NEW SINGLE – GOOD DAYS BAD DAYS – OUT NOW
+ 2019 ARIA WIN FOR BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM
December 13, 2019
The beloved Melbourne Ska Orchestra has today unveiled their new single Good Days Bad Days – a showstopper of a track lifted from their most recent album One Year Of Ska – the box set album that just saw them take out the 2019 ARIA Award for Best World Music Album.
To celebrate, the epic 25 piece band have announced a huge national tour, which will see them hitting up metropolitan and regional cities across the country throughout the early months of 2020.
The group will be kicking things off at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall on February 28, then moving through Brisbane, Maroochydore, Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong, Canberra, Fremantle, Pinjarra (WA), and wrapping up with a massive hometown show at The Forum, Melbourne on May 1.
Melbourne Ska Orchestra are a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the stage. Audiences will be blown away by up to 25 musicians performing at a time, and the joyous, energetic vibe of a Melbourne Ska Orchestra gig is one that must be seen to be believed.
Multi-instrumentalist and band leader Nicky Bomba enthuses, “With so many band members, we’re a bit like a soccer team! Our live shows are a community experience. It’s imperative for us to make a solid unifying connection with our audience. We hold the live performance in high esteem, as it’s an ancient ritual where humans come together celebrating life through the wonder of music. It’s a bit of a spectacle to behold.”
Watch ‘Good Days Bad Days’
The album One Year Of Ska was an innovative undertaking for the seasoned group. They set themselves the mammoth task of recording one new song per week for an entire year – that’s a lot of ska! The band took on the challenge firstly as a way of embracing the idea of creating content for their fans, and also to mimmic the old-school Jamaican practice of releasing new songs on a weekly basis to encourage punters to come to their weekly dancehall gigs.
It was an epic task for the Melbourne Ska Orchestra, to say the least, as Nicky Bomba reflects, “We had to move our studio from country Victoria to a studio in Collingwood to facilitate the whole process. It felt like a NASA mission, working around the clock to create, arrange, record, mix and master in time for each weekly launch, which would happen every Friday morning at 9am.”
The new single Good Days Bad Days is just one of the tracks borne of this intense year of work. Bright, spunky and full of life, it’s everything audiences have come to love about the band. The track reflects on exactly that – the good days and bad days that are all part and parcel of life.
Good Days Bad Days is out now.
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MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA NATIONAL TOUR
Tickets from www.melbourneskaorchestra.com
FRI FEB 28 | MULLUMBIMBY CIVIC HALL NSW| 18+ Tickets from http://bit.ly/gooddays-mullumbimby
SAT FEB 29 | THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE QLD | 18+ Tickets from http://bit.ly/gooddays-brisbane
SUN MAR 1 | SOLBAR, MAROOCHYDORE QLD | 18+ Tickets from http://bit.ly/gooddays-maroochydore
THURS MAR 12 | CAMBRIDGE HOTEL, NEWCASTLE NSW | 18+ Tickets from http://bit.ly/gooddays-newcastle
FRI MAR 13 | MANNING BAR, SYDNEY NSW| 18+ Tickets from http://bit.ly/gooddays-sydney
SAT MAR 14 | ANITA’S THEATRE, WOLLONGONG NSW | AA (U18 ACCOMPANIED BY LEGAL GUARDIAN)
SUN MAR 15 | UC REFACTORY, CANBERRA ACT | 18+ Tickets from http://bit.ly/gooddays-canberra
FRI APR 17 | FREO SOCIAL, FREMANTLE WA | 18+ Tickets from http://bit.ly/gooddays-freo
SAT APR 18 | FAIRBRIDGE FESTIVAL, PINJARRA WA | 18+
FRI MAY 1 | THE FORUM, MELBOURNE VIC | 18+
