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Next stop on our World Tour 2019 – Australia!
Our favourite day of the year, along with releasing new music, is always announcing an Australian Tour. It feels great to be finally bringing the songs from Stolen Diamonds home (and throwing in old favourites too of course). Expect to see us doing a lap of the country in Oct/Nov.
More shows will be added, so if you live in a state were there are no shows announced, hold tight and you will hear more soon… Also note that Brisbane and Hobart shows are all ages, as well as a couple of the festivals.
At the end of last year we announced that we had created and financed an International Touring Grant in conjunction with The Australia Council for the Arts. A massive number of applications were received, and we convened in April to determine the one most befitting what we hoped the grant would achieve; the start of a hopefully long term overseas career for an artist/group.
Today we are very happy to announce that the recipient of this grant funding is composer, performer and cultural practitioner of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music, Jessie Lloyd,
Today is the day we have all been waiting for. Stolen Diamonds is OUT NOW all over the world, on our independent label Two Shoes Records. Massive thanks go to Jan Skubiszewski who Produced and Engineered this album (and the previous 2). We will be hitting the road in 2019 to play these new songs (and old favs) around the world, so we hope to see you singing along somewhere out there. If you missed the “Making of The Music Premiere”, you can watch it here to get an insight into the song writing and development, and recording process.
Enjoy a private audience with The Cat Empire, Producer Jan Skubiszewski, and music journalist Michael Dwyer, as they distil how the songs from Stolen Diamonds came to life. The Premiere of Stolen Diamonds: The Making of the Music will provide unique personal insight into the band and their dynamics, and how musically masterful they truly are. Join a live Q&A with band members at the end of the Premiere to have your questions about the album answered.
To accommodate the global fanbase we will present two virtual Premieres of the video, so that everyone has the chance to join a Q&A with the band.
We have realised over time that many of our supporters are musicians in their own right. (That’s why we recently announced our own International Touring Grant for Australian bands). Todays idea is for musos all over the world.
Last time we released an album we spent the afternoon busking around our home town of Melbourne, and we wished we could have done it in every city around the world. That’s where you (musicians) come in…We can’t possibly get everywhere to launch Stolen Diamonds, so we are asking you to busk with our new songs wherever you are in the world on the week (Fri-Fri) starting Feb 15.
We are starting something we may well live to regret…We are starting the year with a sense of humour by launching The Cat Empire Karaoke! Yes you read that right. Please find herein a link to Oscar Wilde, Karaoke Version – Get yourselves, your family, your kids, your grandma, your boss together in a room, with someone on video duty. Hit play and film our own Karaoke version of Oscar Wilde. Vocals, instruments, dances, whatever you want…Send it to us by Feb 28th, and the band will choose the winning entry to receive prize – the chance to run the song at soundcheck with the band the next time they are in your home town.
This one is for all the Australian Musicians we know are in our tribe. We are proud to announce a new International Touring Grant in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts. Without an international audience it would have been almost impossible for us to have the career success and longevity we’ve enjoyed, which is why we wanted to create a career-changing grant to allow an Australian musician or group performing original contemporary music to tour internationally.
As well as financial support, we will provide a one-on-one mentioning opportunity with members of the band and our Manager,
Stolen Diamonds, out Feb 15 2019, is now available for pre-order.
Digital:Pre-Order a Digital Download of the Album for release day arrival. Or Pre-Save it on your favourite streaming service, so it appears in your music library on release day.
Physical:To complete your collection of albums by The Cat Empire, this is what we have planned for Stolen Diamonds:
We are beyond excited to announce The Cat Empire Tour is returning to North America to play for the first time since 2016.
We will be hitting all our favourite cities in one giant loop staring in New York and ending in SanDiego with a giant drive across Canada in between. Full tour details are below. with links to purchase on our TOUR DATES PAGE.
North American Tour 2019:
02.28.2019 Thu Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn Steel
03.01.2019 Fri Philadelphia PA -Theatre of Living Arts
03.02.2019 Sat Boston MA –