Mia Wray will perform a standout show at Melbourne's own Howler in March as part of the tour.
Following a fruitful month in London – which included her debut headline show in the UK and resulted in an invite to the Great Escape Festival as part of its First 50 – Mia Wray has arrived home inspired and announces her debut EP Stay Awake, out Friday 10th February alongside news of a national tour. Touring the country for her biggest Australian headline tour yet, Mia will be heading to Melbourne for a show at Melbourne’s own Howler on March 31.
Mia Wray Stay Awake Australian Tour
March 3 – Solbar, Maroochydore
March 4 – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane
March 10 – Mojos, Fremantle
March 11 – Music In The Park, Joondalup
March 23 – La La La’s, Wollongong
March 24 – Lansdowne, Sydney
March 25 – The Sound Doctor Presents, Angelsea Town Hall, Angelsea
March 26 – Awaken Festival – Peninsula Hot Springs, Mornington Peninsula
March 31 – Howler, Melbourne
Check out Melbourne’s most comprehensive gig guide here.
She’ll also be live supporting Vance Joy this Friday, November 18 at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt and in Melbourne at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Saturday, November 26.
A culmination of the Melbourne musician’s big, bold, and expansive musical output to date, the forthcoming five-track collection Stay Awake, featuring 2022 singles Evidence & Rerun, is a testament to an artist as powerful behind the pen as she is behind the mic; a huge voice with something to say.
To coincide with the EP announcement is the arrival of a new single and title track, Stay Awake, which takes an empathetic look at the strain that depression can have on a friendship. The video – shot in London by award-winning UK director Tina Bull aka Tiny Bullet – is cinematic and wildly expressive, capturing the song’s sentiment through movement and featuring a striking performance by Mia herself.
Originally from Noosa, Mia honed her craft playing bars, restaurants and country clubs up the coast, just her and her guitar. In her late teens she moved Melbourne, and after a couple of years of gigging locally realised there was a bigger, braver sound, one she’d not dared to dream, waiting dormant inside her.
After capturing the attention of fans and media alike with her debut single, the predominantly accapella ‘Work For Me’, Mia has gone on to become one of Australia’s most highly acclaimed emerging artists. Five singles in, Mia has graced playlist covers, had her singles added to high rotation on triple j, toured alongside the likes of The Rubens and Vance Joy and performed on national TV several times over.
The Stay Awake EP is out Febuary 10, 2023. Tickets to the tour go on sale Friday 18th November here.
