Following a huge year of touring through 2022, The Grogans are jumping straight back into another packed year – announcing their 27-date AUS/NZ tour in support of their latest album ‘Which Way Is Out’.
Including seven stops throughout Aotearoa, the shows come on the back of their debut sold out New Zealand tour earlier this year.
The tour begins in Christchurch, before playing Wellington’s Meow. The boys will then head back down south playing Dunedin and Queenstown, before playing the hot new Auckland venue The Mothership, Raglans’ The Yard before wrapping up in Mount Maunganui.
CW Records, Lonely Lands Agency & Eccles Entertainment present
THE GROGANS
Which Way Is Out Tour 2023
Wednesday 22nd Feb | TBA | Christchurch, Ōtautahi *
Thursday 23rd Feb | Meow | Wellington, Te Whanganui-a-tara
Friday 24th Feb | Onefest | Dunedin, Ōtepoti *
Saturday 25th Feb | Yonder | Queenstown, Tāhuna +
Thursday 2nd Mar | The Mothership | Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau
Friday 3rd Mar | The Yard | Raglan, Whāingaroa
Saturday 4th Mar | Beast Of A Feast | Mount Maunganui, Tauranga *
* Not An Eccles Entertainment show
+ Free Concert
All tickets on sale NOW from https://www.thegrogansband.com/
Press Release:
Genre-expanding outfit The Grogans are a trio of best mates from Melbourne who explore nuanced maneuvers in surf, punk, blues, garage, psych and rockabilly. The band’s latest album ‘Which Way Is Out’ is their third album and digs deeper into the band’s genre fluidity.
“Which Way Is Out was based around a similar work flow we have taken on previous releases. The idea of going away to write/record has been the best way for us to be completely involved in the project. I think it allows us to step back from the other responsibilities in our life for just a minute and set our minds on one thing at a time. The new album contains the classic Grogans formula of heavier songs, cruiser songs and acoustic tracks. This helps us make our records have a sense of movement but also continuity between LPs. Which Way Is Out is a collection of tracks we think fit on a record together, some tracks are old and some far more recent but we managed to pull together a body of work which I think is somewhat nostalgic but also forward looking.” – The Grogans
The Grogans have supported the likes of Ocean Alley, The Chats, Hockey Dad, Northeast Party House, and Drunk Mums as well as festivals & showcases during 2022 including a Rolling Stone x Sailor Jerry Showcase, NYE on the Hill (VIC), Great Escape Festival (TAS).
This will only be The Grogans second visit to Aotearoa but buckle in, the shows promise to be a rockin wild time. Their last tour sold out so don’t delay snapping up tickets before it’s too late!
Alongside the tour announcement the trio are releasing a colourful claymation visual for feature track ‘LE FANGZ’, an exuberant and playful expression of the energy more familiar at The Grogans live shows.
Have you ever imagined a daisy inspired vampire creature? Meet the protagonist of feature track ‘LE FANGZ’ and visual claymation component created by Willem Kingma.
“Le Fangz tries to mellow you out and tell a story of an imaginary creature ‘le fang’ through a more lo/fi gritty ballad. This song actually accrued from this awful painting Quin did of these daisy looking vampire critters during lockdown. We were having a few beers on the grass just painting on big bits of plywood. After Quin had finished he wrote ‘le fangs’ on it as the title which ended up in our studio until it one day became the main character in a song.” – The Grogans
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