EXCLUSIVE: Answered ahead of her first-ever Australian headline tour, pre-Melbourne show:
Chapsticks – “I’m addicted to Chapsticks! I always have a Chapstick. If I don’t have a Chapstick, I’m not even kidding, my whole day is ruined! I hate when my lips feel dry and I think because I use Chapsticks so often, my lips are even drier than normal. But I always have to have my Chapstick.”
Headphones – “My headphones too, I always need my headphones. I always wear headphones, even when I’m not listening to music. For whatever reason, I always have my ears covered, it gives me some type of peace or something. I really like having my ears covered!”
Medicine – “I also always have to have my medicine with me. Like, Tylenol and Dramamine, actually I have to have my Dramamine especially. I have really, really bad motion sickness on cars and planes. I literally could be sitting here right now and move my head too fast and – boom! I have to take a Dramamine (laughs).”
Hoodies – “Lastly – a hoodie! I always have to have my hoodie. Even if it’s hot outside, I have to have my hoodie with me, I just love being warm. It’s freezing in Melbourne at the moment while I’ve been here, we went for a walk on the beach yesterday and it was freezing! But I do wanna see a koala so badly while I’m here so I don’t care if it’s cold or raining – I wanna hold one so bad!”
Armed with her electric live show and her colossal 2022 debut album SUCKERPUNCH, the incomparable Maggie Lindmann is officially visiting Australia this May for three special Australian shows.
Kicking off on Thursday 4 May at The Prince in Melbourne, MAGGIE LINDEMANN will then make her way to The Triffid in Brisbane on Saturday 6 May, before closing out on Sunday 7 May at Crowbar in Sydney.
A flourishing artist, social media style icon and entrepreneur, MAGGIE LINDEMANN has amassed over one billion streams in the last two years, with her hotly anticipated debut full-length SUCKERPUNCH making spellbinding waves worldwide upon release in 2022. Praised for its versatility, striking vocals and empowered subject matter, SUCKERPUNCH offered fans and MAGGIE LINDEMANN herself a chance to dive deeper and revel in lush, dark and infectious musical terrain, with hyper pop-meets-glam-goth dominating the album’s overall aesthetic.
“When I was making this, I had those blows in my own life; when I listened to the album back from start to finish, I realized the entire thing was a sucker punch – for myself, for my fans – and I knew it had to be the title,” shares Maggie of her 2022 opus. “Writing is my therapy, my way to get what I’m feeling and thinking and going through out so that I can try to move on from it. With this album, I finally knew: ‘I need to let go of this stuff, so I’m just going to write about it.’ I have control over my own life now. I have control over my music and what I want to say, what I want to do, and how I want to do it.”
Here are some Maggie Lindemann highlights & facts:
- In just over seven years, the electrifying and burgeoning sonic icon that is Maggie Linedmann has evolved from bubblegum pop teen to a genre-defiant and kinetic force to be reckoned with.
- Building on the sharp song writing and singularly honed-in sounds she’d established on her acclaimed 2021 EP PARANOIA, SUCKERPUNCH chronicles a journey of self-discovery and actualisation over the course of its 15 tracks – and for Maggie, it was both an internal and external sucker punch.
- “It’s an unexpected punch, a blow you didn’t see coming,” Maggie Lindemann explains. “When I was making this, I had those blows in my own life; when I listened to the album back from start to finish, I realized the entire thing was a sucker punch – for myself, for my fans – and I knew it had to be the title.”
- Following the release of her breakout 2016 single, Pretty Girl, Maggie Lindmann has steadily evolved into one of the most enigmatic and powerful artists in the modern alt-pop scene.
- Boasting over 5.5 million monthly Spotify listeners, over 414 million views on YouTube, sold out headline shows, an appearance at VooDoo Music + Arts, featuring Guns N’ Roses, Post Malone, Beck and more, as well as supports alongside the likes of Sabrina Carpenter, Madison Beer and The Vamps, Maggie‘s star is only set to shine bigger and brighter in 2023; and Australian fans can finally witness this magnetic pop dynamo live in action this May.
- Social Media & Streaming: Facebook (2.3 million) | Instagram (6.2 million) | Twitter (498K) | YouTube (2.21 million subs & 430.2 million total views) | Spotify (4.44 million monthly listeners & 1.94 million followers) | Bandsintown (93.8K followers) | TikTok (2.5 million followers, 45.8 million likes)
