With festival season coming to an end, at last, there’s actually room for local acts to book decent-sized tours, and several have been announced this week. Here’s a round-up...

Adalita is supporting the release of her eponymous debut solo album (out on Friday 4 March via Liberation) with a fairly hefty tour throughout March, April and early May. Here at The Vine, we’ve been lucky enough to hear the album already, and are happy to report that it’s really great – stripped-back and confessional, definitely more minimal than Magic Dirt’s work but losing nothing in the way of atmospherics or evocativeness. Support for the tour comes from Amaya Laucirica, who also sings on album track ‘Good Girl’. Magic Dirt fans will also be interested to know that Raúl Sanchez has a new band – they’re called River of Snakes, and you can check out their work here.

ADALITA - MARCH, APRIL & MAY 2011
Thursday 24 March - Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay
Friday 25 March - Old Museum, Brisbane
Saturday 26 March - Shark Bar, Miami Tavern, Gold Coast
Friday 1 April - The Loft, Warrnambool
Saturday 2 April - ECU Bowls Club, Mt Lawley
Sunday 3 April - Indi Bar, Scarborough
Thursday 7 April - Bended Elbow, Geelong
Friday 8 April - Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Saturday 9 April - Toff in Town, Melbourne
Thursday 14 April - Transit Bar, Canberra
Friday 15 April - Great Northern, Newcastle
Saturday 16 April - Sando Hotel, Newtown
Sunday 17 April - Clarendon, Katoomba
Wednesday 20 April - Irish Murphys, Launceston
Thursday 21 April - Republic Bar, Hobart
Thursday 5 May - Grace Emily, Adelaide


Adalita 'Hot Air'
  
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Hot on the release of their new video, ever more massive Melbourne globe-conquerors Cut Copy are taking their vintage synths, ‘80s influences and occasionally bodgy lyrics on tour in May to follow up the release of their third album Zonoscope. There’s a Laneway feel to the support line-up, with summery Sydney types The Holidays and Melbourne up-and-comers World’s End Press splitting support slot duties between them.

CUT COPY - MAY 2011
Thursday 5 May - The Palace, Melbourne (with The Holidays)
Thursday 12 May - The Enmore Theatre, Sydney (with The Holidays)
Friday 13 May - Metro City, Perth (with World's End Press)
Thursday 19 May - The Tivoli, Brisbane (with World's End Press)
Friday 20 May - HQ Complex, Adelaide (with World's End Press)


Cut Copy 'Hearts on Fire' (live at Laneway Festival, Adelaide)

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While speaking to a friend recently, The Vine was pondering exactly how bands manage to keep up with the touring grind - long drives, early flights, bad roadhouse food. The answer was fairly obvious - shitloads of caffeine and/or other, um, more exotic stimulants - but the exception was My Disco. “Oh no,” we were told, “they don’t drink or anything. So they finish a show, give every one a cheery wave, and drive to Sydney. And arrive as fresh as daisies.” With such clean-living ways and mighty stamina, this short East Coast jaunt in support of the double LP vinyl version of the most excellent Little Joy should be a walk in the proverbial park.

MY DISCO - APRIL 2011
Friday 1 April - Good God, Sydney
Friday 8 April - National Hotel, Geelong
Saturday 9 April - Totally Autumn Festival, Croatian Club, Newcastle
Saturday 16 April - The Bakery, Perth
Thursday 21 April - Peking Spring Festival, ANU Bar, Canberra
Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 April - Toff in Town, Melbourne

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Sure signs that the ‘90s revival is in full swing, #231: Jebediah are touring. The band’s reunion has been one of the unexpected and rather welcome successes of recent years, and they have a new album called Kosciusko out via Dew Process on Friday 15 April. Dew Process are, of course, the label who kinda rejuvenated The Living End’s career, so it’ll be interesting to see if they can do the same for Kevin Mitchell et al. Anyway, the tour dates are as follows:

JEBEDIAH - MAY 2011
Friday 6 May - Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Saturday 7 May - Bended Elbow, Geelong
Thursday 26 May - The Maram, Canberra
Friday 27 May - Factory Theatre, Sydney
Saturday 28 May - Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
Friday 3 June - Hi-Fi Bar, Brisbane
Saturday 4 June - Irish Club, Toowoomba
Friday 10 June - Astor Theatre, Perth
Sunday 12 June - The Gov, Adelaide


Jebediah 'She's Like a Comet'

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And finally, Architecture in Helsinki – remember them? – have signed to Modular and are releasing a new album called Moment Bends. As well as their slots on the Groovin the Moo festival, they’ve booked three solo dates in May so far to support said release – sadly, there’s no word on whether Kellie Sutherland is ever going to resurrect her infinitely more enjoyable (in this writer's humble opinion) Your Wedding Night project. There’s also no word on a Sydney date, curiously. Or Perth, for that matter. Or Adelaide. Or...

ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI - MAY 2011
Sunday 15 May - The Capitol, Perth
Thursday 26 May - Hi-Fi Bar, Melbourne
Friday 27 May - Hi-Fi Bar, Brisbane