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News : Gay Paris Announce New Album + National Tour

By on August 19, 2015

Sydney’s Gay Paris have announced that from this September until the end of the year, the band will be travelling across Australia for an extended national tour.

Gay Paris are also proud to unveil their third full-length album, entitled ‘Ladies And Gentlemen, May We Present To You: The Dark Arts’. The album is set for a September 18 release.

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Spring whispers in her cave, licking the frost from her child (and what an awful and squalling beast this child is). With said neonate firmly swaddled in sackcloth and ashes, Gay Paris are hitting the road, September through December, bringing the love that is Satan and a celebration of free will to Australia in the most rambunctious way imaginable. You get the rock n roll dissent you deserve (and at this point, Australia needs five courses and desert with nightcaps at the sleaziest bar in town). Riffs. Love. The Devil; you’re not alone if you want it to be otherwise. 

When you wake on September 18, Gay Paris will be posing the question/releasing the album

Ladies and Gentlemen: May We Present To You The Dark Arts

2013’s The Last Good Party took this formless celebration and gave it shape – meaning, something to hold on to while one flailed about in the dark. Fans loved it, critics heaped praise on the more cohesive sound, likening the band to Clutch, Kyuss and QOTSA – more nervous individuals noted that the band was ‘hipster cunts trying to be metal’. On tour, Gay Paris attended to every State and Territory – often giving multiple satisfactions. The party could not stop – because everyone knows that animals cannot lie. This was indeed to be the last good party.

Ladies and Gentlemen, May We Present To You: The Dark Arts asks that the listener suspend their disbelief – for the celebration continues, although this time, along far more sinister lines. Written and recorded over a period of 13 months, album number 3 finds Gay Paris reveling in the bones of the band that they were, fleshed out with carnal bass-lines, starving riffs and lyrics that possess a certain (if horrific) burlesque charm. The beasts are hungry. Bring your meat to the table.

You can pre-order your copy of the new album (out through MGM) and find tickets for the upcoming tour via Gay Paris Music.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25 – RAD, Wollongong, NSW

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26 – ROLLING STONE LIVE LODGE AT NEWTOWN SOCIAL CLUB, Sydney, NSW

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7 – PUNK ASS KIDS AT ROCKET BAR, Adelaide, SA

THURSDAY OCTOBER 8 – WORKERS CLUB, Geelong, VIC

FRIDAY OCTOBER 9 –THE EASTERN, Ballarat, VIC

SATURDAY OCTOBER 10 – CHERRY BAR, Melbourne, VIC

FRIDAY OCTOBER 16 – STUDIO 6, Sutherland, NSW

SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 – PHOENIX, Canberra, ACT

THURSDAY OCTOBER 22 – CROWBAR, Brisbane, QLD

FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 – THE HELM, Mooloolaba, QLD

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6 – THE CAMBRIDGE HOTEL, Newcastle, NSW

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 – THE CARRINGTON HOTEL, Katoomba, NSW

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 – THE PRIER, Port Macquarie, NSW

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20 – THE NORTHERN, Byron Bay, NSW

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26 – THE PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL, Bunbury, WA

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27 – THE ODD FELLOW, Fremantle, WA

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28 – THE BOSTON, Perth, WA

FRIDAY DECEMBER 11 – THE GRAND POOBAH, Hobart, TAS

SATURDAY DECEMBER 12 – CLUB 54, Launceston, TAS

Check out the newest track from the band, “Cult Slang”, below.

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Jonathon is an aspiring fantasy/sci-fi novelist and music journalist. Thanks to the influence of the music he grew up with, he has always possessed a keen interest in metal and rock. He is also a huge fan of mythology, legend, and folklore from all across the world. You should follow him on Twitter.