Making their first trip to Australia, following a thwarted attempt during the pandemic, Grayscale are bringing their breezy rock sounds to a city near you this April.
Celebrating the release of their fourth album The Hart, the Philly rock band are making the long journey down under this year – and they’re keen to make up for lost time. The band first tried to tour Australia with May Day Parade in between COVID-19 lockdowns, but to little avail.
“We tried to do it, but then the world shut down,” lead singer Collin says of the band’s original efforts to get to the other side of the world. “Since then, the timing hadn’t been right – but finally it kind of worked out with our schedule. We’re so excited to do it and we’re really looking forward to everything.”
Grayscale’s Australian tour
- Apr 4, 2025 – Astor Theatre, Perth, Australia – supporting Slowly Slowly
- Apr 5, 2025 – Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide, Australia – supporting Slowly Slowly
- Apr 6, 2025 – King Street Band Room, Newcastle, Australia – supporting Slowly Slowly
- Apr 8, 2025 – The Baso Canberra, Belconnen, Australia – with special guests: BESTIES + FVNERAL (VIP available)
- Apr 10, 2025 – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane, Australia – supporting Slowly Slowly
- Apr 11, 2025 – Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia – supporting Slowly Slowly
- Apr 12, 2025 – Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne, Australia – supporting Slowly Slowly
- Apr 13, 2025 – Sookie Lounge, Belgrave, Australia – with special guests: DARCY BAKER + ULTRAVLT (VIP available)
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The upcoming tour of Australia promises to be an educational experience for the band: Collin himself confesses that the land down under represents foreign terrain about which he and the band don’t know an awful lot. That said, he is eager to make the journey as a debt of gratitude to their Australian fans, who have never been able to see them perform live, especially now at the release of their fourth full-length album.
Of the Australia tour – which sees the band performing in a variety of destinations across April – Collin says, “We’re really excited to play some old stuff, play some new stuff, and meet everybody and have a great time.”
Touring with Slowly Slowly
Grayscale are set to play as the support act to Melbourne rock band Slowly Slowly, themselves undertaking an Australia tour. The April performance dates mark the first instance in which the two bands have directly engaged with one another, though Collin admits the Aussie band has been on their radar for a while.
“I really like their music,” he says. “Oddly enough, though, there’s a song called Love Letters on Slowly’s new record that actually was a Grayscale song that ended up not being used. We were working with a similar producer. So there’s a tonne of DNA in the song Love Letters; there’s a lot of Grayscale DNA in that song, which I thought was a cool thing. Using the bones of that,” he elaborates, “they made it different and really awesome, their own thing.”
The serendipity of being invited to tour with the band ahead of their own travels to Australia was a welcome coincidence, particularly as Collin had already been listening to Slowly Slowly’s newest releases in recent months.
Comprised of four members – lead singer Collin Walsh, guitarist and backing vocalist Andrew Kyne, backing vocalist Dallas Molster, and drummer Nick Veno – the band met when they were fourteen years old, all originating from the same area of Philadelphia. It was a shared passion for live music that first brought the band members into each other’s orbits, mixing at the same kinds of shows and events.
From basements to a full-time thing
The quartet became fast friends and today, Collin says, are like brothers to one another. “It’s been 15-plus years now, of being friends and playing music. We played a tonne of basement shows, and stuff like that for a very long time, and some us went to college and stuff. My first or second year of college, the band started picking up and it became a full-time thing, like dropping out and touring and all that.”
For a young rock band, the group’s preferred look is one more closely aligned to the gentle hipster arenas of indie folk. As such, often photographed in skate shoes and hoodies, Grayscale’s overall vibe doesn’t seem to emphasise standard preconceptions of ‘rock band’ within the view of their audiences.
“I think, if anything,” he ponders, “I feel like we wear denim jackets and parkas, like we’re that kind of rock band. I think it’s kind of more natural to us, like we’re not a ‘rock band’ rock band, wearing a tonne of leather and Doc Martins! We’re not like punk rock in that way, but I think as far as personal style, we like to wear just denim jackets and tanks. We just do our thing.”
The band are set to continue doing just that in the coming weeks, as they embark on their first tour down under and then rip up the US highway as they take their album release across the States immediately after.
Grayscale will be touring Australia across April. Get your tickets here.
