Marlon Williams announces one-off intimate Melbourne show next month
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10.08.2022

Marlon Williams announces one-off intimate Melbourne show next month

Marlon Williams

New Zealand alt-country star Marlon Williams has announced a very special one-off Melbourne show at Howler on September 9.

Marlon Williams also presents a new single ‘Easy Does It’ today, from his forthcoming album, My Boy, out September 9 via Virgin Music Australia, as he prepares for a special one-off album launch show, in Marlon’s home away from home in Melbourne, on September 9 at the beautiful Brunswick venue Howler. Tickets for this show go on sale on August 11 at 9am.

Marlon Williams’ Melbourne show

  • Marlon Williams My Boy album release day show
  • Friday, September 9 – Howler, Brunswick
  • Supported by Reb Fountain. Tix on sale 9am August 11

Check out Melbourne’s most comprehensive gig guide here. 

Williams kicks off the track with a “Ngã mihi to your friends when they stop calling,” as his voice drifts over shuffling guitar and the twang of lap steel.

“I’ve always loved Lee Hazlewood’s personification of ‘Easy’ in his song ‘Easy and Me’; what a great way of cutting to the point,” says Williams. “It worked for the Greeks, it works for Māori too. I wanted everything about this song to be as gentle as possible. From Delaney Davidson’s lap steel intro with its Pacifica 6th chords to the whispered vocal delivery to the soft summer visualiser which is something of an addendum to the ‘My Boy’ video: the boys, sweaty from the days digging and dancing, launching into the shallows of Lyttelton harbour, hoping to lure some poor sailors to a watery grave.

“I’ve always explored different character elements in my music and I think the more I get into acting, the more tricks I’m learning about representation and presentation. I’m trying to make my worlds feed into each other as much as possible. To get braver and bolder with exploring shifting contexts and new ways of doing things.” My Boy does – it sees Williams firmly having fun, even while interrogating the behaviours of himself and those around him.

Gone is the solemn, country-indebted crooner with the velvet voice. My Boy is a more playful, shape-shifting creature, as Williams has presented in a string of singles – ‘My Boy’, ‘Thinking of Nina’, and ‘River Rival’. “It happened naturally,” Williams explains. “I was listening to more steely, New Romantic stuff, like Duran Duran, John Grant, Perfume Genius, the Bee Gees. All those things fed into the machine.”

Grab your tickets here.