Tame Impala Tickets

Short Biography

Tame Impala have just confirmed that they’re inviting electro-pop synth pals, Midnight Juggernauts, along to warm things up at their sideshow appearances.

Having already completed a string of completely sold out North American shows, including an appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Tame Impala will be appearing at Coachella in the coming weeks before returning back to Australian shores for these shows.  Following that it’s back overseas for a slew of festival appearances across North America and Europe including Sasquatch in the USA, Spain’s Primavera Sound, Poland’s Open'er Festival, Optimus Alive in Portugal, Japan’s Fuji Rock, and just announced, their inclusion on the Glastonbury bill in the UK.  Their overseas commitments will also see them headlining shows across the US and Europe including dates at London’s iconic Hammersmith Apollo and Olympia Hall in Paris.

With a touring schedule this rigorous, local fans are warned that these Australian April / May dates will be your only chance to catch Tame Impala live in 2013.

Joining Tame Impala are Melbourne synth collective, Midnight Juggernauts.  Having spent many years recording and releasing much music and moonshine far and wide, all while touring the global festival circuit numerous times over from Coachella to Glastonbury to Fuji Rock.  Though for the last two years they'd decided to take creative sojourns into other realms, taking time out for exploratory side projects, and experimental revelry in the studio.  They have since regrouped to complete their long awaited third album, soon to be released for 2013.  Recorded in an old church in the French countryside as well as the wild turbulent land known as Australia, the band are ready to unleash their new sounds upon the ether.  It's time for the new chapter…

In-depth Biography
Kevin Parker (vocals/guitar) and Dominic Simper (bass) formed Tame Impala as 13 year olds in Perth in 1999, sticking to bedroom recordings until 2007, when Jay Watson joined them on drums and backing vocals. Their sound was pure late '60s, but wasn't the sound of any specific band from the era. They were as likely to be channeling the Nazz as the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Cocooned away inside walls of psychedelic fuzz in Western Australia they re-created their preferred period one song at a time with the aid of gear and production techniques that sounded like they hadn't been dusted off since 1968. Like a lot of the buzz bands of the late 2000s Tame Impala's story involves /MySpace. The social networking website rocketed them from a teenage garage band to the sought-after trophy in a multiple label bidding war. It started when Modular Records sent them a message after hearing several songs on their /MySpace and asked for more. Tame Impala sent them a demo with 20 songs, which led to requests and offers from everyone under the sun. After consideration, they stuck with the label who had shown first interest, and signed with Modular in 2008.

In September of that year they released their first, self-titled EP. There was some confusion among reviewers, several of whom referred to the release as "Antares, Mira, Sun" after the notes written on the artwork, a representation of the Orion Nebula drawn by bandleader and songwriter Kevin Parker. As well as drawing the art, the perfectionist Parker micro-managed the recording, performing every instrument himself. The EP went to number ten on the ARIA charts and number one on the independent label charts. Though Parker played each instrument on the EP, live they functioned as a real band, though at their early gigs they were famously unprepared and never wore shoes. At one such shambolic gig for a Vice Magazine party in Melbourne, indie electro-pop band MGMT's label manager caught their act and was impressed enough to offer them the support slot when his band toured Australia. That year they also supported the Black Keys and You Am I on national tours. ~ Jody Macgregor, Rovi