British-Japanese pop sensation will play in Melbourne on January 13.
Electrifying audiences across the globe, Rina Sawayama has just announced that she’s coming to Australia and New Zealand for four shows across the two countries. The announce comes ahead of next Friday’s new album release, Hold The Girl. Fresh off a triumph UK and US headline tour, her new release promises to be colossally ambitious and utterly original. Catch her when she comes to Melbourne, where she’ll be performing at 170 Russell on January 13, 2023.
Rina Sawayama Hold The Girl Tour 2023
- January 9 – Powerstation, Auckland
- January 12 – Roundhouse, Sydney
- January 13 – 170 Russell, Melbourne
- January 14 – The Triffid, Brisbane
Check out Melbourne’s most comprehensive gig guide here.
Hold The Girl, due for release on September 16, showcases Rina’s talent for bending huge chart influences and blockbuster melodies to her will with precision-tuned songwriting and powerful vocals. The 13-tracks of Hold The Girl will feature the previously released singles ‘This Hell’, which debuted with a performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, along with ‘Catch Me In The Air’ and the title track ‘Hold The Girl‘, which came with an Ali Kurr directed video and portrays Rina stuck in a time loop within the bounds of a 19th-century farmhouse until she finally breaks free.
Hold The Girl, isn’t just a smorgasbord of monster hits-in-the-waiting – it’s also a bold and honest statement about the singer coming to terms with her own past and the jubilation of turning to the future.These are big songs in a big album, choreographing female emotion, despair and hope in a record that pulsates with the message that pop can be more complex, darker and so much more meaningful than your typical girl-meets-boy lyricism. “I’m still very much a maximal writer. I hate silences.” And that’s her down to a tee – in a world that wants women to be quieter, Rina Sawayama is finding new ways to speak up.
Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9am, Friday September 9. For complete tour and ticket information, head here.
