MGMT

Short Biography
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE SHOWS MOVED TO LARGER VENUES

After selling out in under three minutes, MGMT's forthcoming shows in Sydney and Melbourne will be moved to larger venues to meet the overwhelming demand. The shows will remain on their original dates.

Current ticket holders do not need to exchange their tickets. Just turn up to the new venue on the night to gain entry.

Sydney's Enmore Theatre performance will now take place at the Hordern Pavilion. Please note this show is now fully General Admission. Seating is available in the venue, but is not reserved.

Melbourne's Palace Theatre performance will now take place at Festival ...

Short Biography
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE SHOWS MOVED TO LARGER VENUES

After selling out in under three minutes, MGMT's forthcoming shows in Sydney and Melbourne will be moved to larger venues to meet the overwhelming demand. The shows will remain on their original dates.

Current ticket holders do not need to exchange their tickets. Just turn up to the new venue on the night to gain entry.

Sydney's Enmore Theatre performance will now take place at the Hordern Pavilion. Please note this show is now fully General Admission. Seating is available in the venue, but is not reserved.

Melbourne's Palace Theatre performance will now take place at Festival Hall. All tickets purchased for the Palace Theatre performance will be valid for General Admission floor entry at Festival Hall. Further 18+ General Admission floor and Reserved Seating tickets, and All Ages Reserved Seating tickets will be made available for this show.

Remaining tickets will go on sale at 9am Friday 5 September. After selling out in just minutes the first time around, there's no doubt these tickets will be snapped up just as fast. Don't miss out.

In-depth Biography
Finding an unlikely middle point between Suicide's hostile proto-electro punk art noise and the sardonic, studied, but ultimately pop-friendly sound of the Flaming Lips, MGMT started as electroclash musical terrorists but quickly transmogrified into an eclectic, brainy pop group with heavy psychedelic overtones. MGMT first formed in 2002, during Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden's freshman year as art students at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. At first the band was known as the Management, and its shows consisted mostly of backing tapes, synthesizers, and prerecorded vocals playing as Goldwasser and Van Wyngarden engaged the audience in a manner somewhere between performance art and good old-fashioned punky hostility. By their senior year, things had toned down considerably on-stage and the duo was augmenting its live sound with backing musicians.

Upon graduating, MGMT released an electro-rock EP, Time to Pretend, on the tiny indie Cantora Records in 2005. Good reviews, especially for the title track, and extensive touring brought the duo to the attention of British producer Steve Lillywhite in his role as an A&R executive for Columbia Records, which signed the band for a major long-term deal in 2006. Regrouping in Brooklyn, the duo enlisted producer Dave Fridmann to create the entirely different-sounding Oracular Spectacular, a far more musically expansive album that was released digitally in late 2007 (a traditional CD release followed in January 2008). Additionally, MGMT served as Of Montreal's opening act for their extensive 2007 tour, during which Van Wyngarden and Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes began sketching out ideas for a new collaboration called Blikk Fang. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide