One of Sydney, Australia’s most popular bands is coming to Canada for the first time.
During the upcoming Canadian Music Week (CMW) festivities, The Dead Love will be performing three special shows at three unique venues in Toronto.
On May 4, the band, which is comprised of the duo of Clint Ossington and Stevie Knight, will perform at The Smiling Buddha, 961 College St., for a 1 a.m. set. The next evening, The Dead Love will perform at The Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen St. W. at 10 p.m.
The band’s CMW jaunt will conclude with an ‘Aussie Barbecue’ at the venerable Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen St. W, at 4:15 p.m.
The Dead Love has already taken their native Australian rock scene by storm, and with their second album, So Whatever, is set to launch themselves onto a much larger stage.
The album’s lead-off single, Wastelands, is emblematic of the new album’s focus on The Dead Love’s unique blend of 1990s alternative rock, raise-your-fist 1980s party rock and an uncanny melodic pop sensibility that Ossington and Knight call ‘Australian Grunge.’
“We wanted to get back to basics, to get back to the attitude we had when we first started and reflect the early influences we grew up with in the 1990s – band’s like Nirvana, The Melvins and Helmet, as well as a lot of the power-pop bands from that period. On our new material, we want to go back to the approach we had when we were in high school and starting playing music just to have fun. Our attitude on Wastelands and the other new songs is that less is more. It wasn’t about having perfect takes and auto-tuning the vocals and overproducing everything,” he said.
The Dead Love’s first album, Transitions, which was released in 2014, was a hit with fans, the popular music press and radio throughout Australia. The top radio stations in the country, including Triple J, FBi Radio, Triple M, 3RRR FM, 2RRR PBS FM and Home Brew Radio, and more than 70 others played selections from the album regularly. It also got some broadcasting love from stations in North America, the United Kingdom and neighbouring New Zealand.
The new single, Wastelands, is already generating a similar buzz.
The popular and critical acclaim led to some amazing opportunities to share concert and festival stages with an impressive array of top acts, including Aerosmith, Buckcherry, Everclear and Van Halen. They’ve also opened for regional favourites such as The Love Junkies, The Lazys and Closure In Moscow.
For more information on The Dead Love, visit http://www.thedeadlove.com/
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