n the lead up to his debut AU headline shows taking place in June, multi-platinum artist and lead vocalist of 5 Seconds of Summer Luke Hemmings has today announced The Buoys and Annie Hamilton will be joining him as special guests on his ‘Nostalgia For A Time That Never Existed‘ tour.
Sydney-based, all female rock band The Buoys will be joining Luke for his two hometown Sydney shows, and ethereal singer-songwriter Annie Hamilton will be opening for the multi-Platinum artist at his Melbourne and Brisbane shows. The exciting announcement of these special guests follows on from Luke selling out selling out his debut hometown show at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre, with a new show being added to keep up with demand The new show added will take place on Thursday 13 June. Tickets for are on sale now HERE.
The exciting tour comes off the back of the announcement of Luke’s highly anticipated latest forthcoming solo EP boy set for release 26 April, and release of a brand new single ‘Shakes’ (LISTEN HERE). Beautiful and melancholic, ‘Shakes’ is a captivating preview of what fans can expect to come, and is the first new original music since Hemmings’ critically acclaimed debut project, When Facing the Things We Turn Away From, released in 2021. Luke says of the project’s first single, “’Shakes’ was written on a dreary NYC evening in between long periods of being on the road. This made it come naturally to write from a melancholy place and feeling of yearning to be back home and feeling lonely and emotionally depleted. There is a longing for love and self-acceptance in the lyrics and I hope it to be a song and feeling that anyone listening can find themselves in and attach their own story”.
Luke is adept at capturing feelings and distilling them into music. As the lead vocalist of 5 Seconds of Summer, Luke has sold millions of records, toured the globe numerous times, accumulated billions of streams, and become one of Australia’s most successful musical exports. boy, meanwhile, sees him flex his innate abilities as a songwriter to carve out a unique space as an artist in his own right. Inspired by musical influences like LCD Soundsystem and the Cocteau Twins, and produced with longtime collaborator Sammy Witte (Maggie Rogers, Harry Styles, Freya Ridings), boy promises a unique exploration of Hemmings’ deepest musical passions. boy will be released on 26 April 2024, and available to pre-order/save HERE.
About The Buoys : The Buoys blasted out of the local punk rock scene, and in just a few short years, released three EPs together, playing sold-out shows across the country that have earned them a devoted following and engrained this Sydney based all-female rock band into Australian music culture. From coming in at #85 on Triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2021 with ‘Lie To Me Again’, to touring with the likes of The Dandy Warhols, Arctic Monkeys, DMA’S and Ball Park Music, The Buoys themselves are devoted to playing high-octane shows, and as a result have cemented their place as an unmissable live show experience.
About Annie Hamilton: Through cascading, ethereal vocals and sprawling instrumentation, Australian artist Annie Hamilton boasts a unique ability to evoke memory and nostalgia within her music. Rejecting straight-forward narrative structure in favour of pinning down hyper-specific yet universally empathetic moments, her 2022 debut album, ‘the future is here but it feels kinda like the past’, is a stylised-yet-grainy collage of snapshots that span a mammoth range of emotion, sound and genre, but are tied together as documentation of little human moments, full of contradiction and duality, reality as metaphor and metaphor as reality. In her short solo career, she has already completed tours with Julia Jacklin, Lime Cordiale, Gordi and Jack River, attracting the praise of triple j, NPR, CLASH Magazine, The Fader and more.
