Sydney indie pop kings The Holidays are back, today announcing that their sophomore full-length studio album, Real Feel, will be released next month, and as if that ain’t enough good news for one day, they’ll also be hitting the road for a national tour.
The follow up to 2010’s Post Paradise will be let loose on Friday, 21st February, with first two singles Voices Drifting and All Time High already taking over the airwaves. Lead singer Simon Jones said Real Feel was a difficult album to make, with the outfit “always searching for a sound just beyond our grasp”:
“I had an idea for a sound that I couldn’t quite name or explain, a vague feeling, somewhere between love and loneliness, like a daydream where you can’t quite remember the content but the feelings you had remain. I guess that’s what this album is, trying to make real the intangible feelings of a few years of living.”
The Real Feel national tour will get going this March, with The Holidays kicking the proceedings off on the Gold Coast on March 6th, before travelling to a host of metro and regional stops around the country. Tickets are available through the band’s Facebook page.
The Holidays Real Feel Tour 2014
Thursday, 6th March
Elsewhere, Gold Coast
Friday, 7th March
The Zoo, Brisbane
Saturday, 8th March
The Spotted Cow, Toowoomba
Thursday, 13th March
Transit Bar, Canberra
Friday, 14th March
Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
Thursday, 20th March
The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Friday, 21st March
Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Saturday, 22nd March
Waratah Hotel, Hobart
Friday, 28th March
Jive, Adelaide
Saturday, 29th March
The Rosemount, Perth
Sunday, 30th March
The Newport, Fremantle
