Grammy-nominated Swedish electro-pop artist Tove Lo has announced an Australian headline tour with Melbourne and Sydney sideshows to Listen Out.
Set to return to Australia this September and October for Listen Out, Tove Lo has today announced headline sideshows across Australia and New Zealand. The multi-platinum selling, Grammy-nominated artist will play Powerstation in Auckland on Wednesday 21 September, before heading to 170 Russell in Melbourne on Wednesday 28 September, and Metro Theatre in Sydney on Thursday 29 September.
“I’m so ready to finally come back and play Australia, and do my first headline show in New Zealand. They both have a special place in my heart and I’m excited to share my new tunes and new moves. Get ready for an emotional dance party,” Tove said.
Tove Lo Australian tour dates and venues
- Wednesday 21 September – Powerstation, Auckland, NZ
- Friday 23 September – Listen Out Melbourne, VIC
- Sunday 25 September – Listen Out Perth, WA
- Wednesday 28 September – 170 Russell, Melbourne, VIC
- Thursday 29 September – Metro Theatre, Sydney, NSW
- Saturday 1 October – Listen Out Sydney, NSW
- Sunday 2 October – Listen Out Brisbane, QLD
Check out Melbourne’s most comprehensive gig guide here.
Following her visit, Tove Lo will release her highly anticipated fifth studio album DIRT FEMME via Pretty Swede Records/mtheory on October 14. The album tracklist boasts a lineup of special guests including SG Lewis (appearing on two tracks), Channel Tres and First Aid Kit. It also features the recent single ‘2 Die 4′, the fan track ‘True Romance’, ‘No One Dies From Love’ – which already has 31 million global streams – and ‘How Long‘ which featured in the season two soundtrack of Euphoria.
“DIRT FEMME is about me and my relationship with my femininity,” she explains. “When I started out as a writer and an artist I used to view my feminine traits as weaker and would enhance my masculine traits to get ahead in life. I feel a big energy shift in my environment since then and this album reflects the various ways my feminine side has both helped and hurt me. I am a pansexual woman married to a straight man. I believe masculine and feline lives on a spectrum in all humans. There are so many more interesting nuances than most people wanna accept.”
Most recently, Tove Lo has performed to rapturous audiences at Governors Ball Festival, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Osheaga Music and Arts Festival and is no stranger to Australia, taking the stage at Splendour In The Grass, performed with Flume at the ARIA Awards, supported Katy Perry on her Australian and New Zealand arena Prismatic Tour, and Spotify’s Front Left Live with BENEE, Tones And I, and girl in red.
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She first made waves worldwide with her platinum-certified 2014 full-length debut, Queen of the Clouds, uplifted by the quintuple-platinum ‘Habits (Stay High)’ and double-platinum ‘Talking Body’. Among numerous collaborations, she joined forces with Nick Jonas for the platinum ‘Close’ and Flume on the gold-certified ‘Say It’. in addition to tracks with Alesso, Coldplay, Martin Garrix, Charli XCX, Sean Paul, ALOK, and Major Lazer, to name a few.
In the midst of sold-out shows on multiple continents, she served up Lady Wood [2016] and Blue Lips (Lady Wood Phase II) [2017] before reaching new popularity on 2019’s Sunshine Kitty. She garnered her second Grammy Award nomination with ‘Glad He’s Gone’ in the category of Best Music Video.
As a songwriter behind-the-scenes, she’s penned music for everyone from Lorde to Zara Larsson in addition to co-writing Ellie Goulding’s quintuple-platinum ‘Love Me Like You Do’ for Fifty Shades of Grey, receiving nominations at the Golden Globes and Grammys. Now, Tove is releasing a series of singles for her own Pretty Swede Records/mtheory and more to come.
The Secret Sounds presale begins on Friday 19 August at 9am local time, with tickets on sale to the general public Monday 22 August at 9am local time. Grab tickets here.
