THE GROGANS: ‘WHICH WAY IS OUT’ TOUR
ALBUM: WHICH WAY IS OUT
LABEL: COUSIN WILL RECORDS
LOCATION: AUSTRALIA + NEW ZEALAND
The Grogans Announce Which Way Is Out 2023 Australia and New Zealand Tour
+ Playful claymation visualizer for ‘Le Fangz’
‘Le Fangz’ featured on Spotify’s
Indie Arrivals
Local Noise
‘Le Fangz’ featured on Apple Music’s
Heaps Indie
New Music Daily
The Grogans are gearing up to celebrate their third studio album WHICH WAY IS OUT in full swing, with a tour kicking off across Australia and New Zealand in February 2023 including some festival appearances at Ninch Fest and Temple Sessions Festival, with all tickets on sale now!
After a busy year with their first run of international shows in New Zealand, supporting Hockey Dad on their Australian Tour, plus festival appearances at Wanderer Music Festival, Best Night Ever , NYE on the Hill, The Great Escape and Drift Festival, and a sold out international support with US band WAVES, WHICH WAY IS OUT was launched with sold out release day shows at HABA in Rye and an exhibition at Melbourne’s Record Paradise presented by Cousin Will Records commemorating all things Grogans. Alongside the tour announcement the trio are releasing a colourful claymation visual for feature track ‘LE FANGZ’, an exuberant and playful expression of the energy more familiar at The Grogans live shows.
Have you ever imagined a daisy inspired vampire creature? Meet the protagonist of feature track ‘LE FANGZ’ and the visual claymation component created by Willem Kingma. “Le Fangz tries to mellow you out and tell a story of an imaginary creature ‘le fang’ through a more lo/fi gritty ballad. This song actually accrued from this awful painting Quin did of these daisy looking vampire critters during lockdown. We were having a few beers on the grass just painting on big bits of plywood. After Quin had finished he wrote ‘le fangs’ on it as the title which ended up in our studio until it one day became the main character in a song.” The Grogans
The band approached me with the concept of creating a stop-motion music video that involved a daisy with fangs, as the song itself was based off a painting Quin had done of a flower with sharp teeth. I started making the models using plasticine and polymer clay. I opted to shoot everything as a flat lay, animating the models on top of green or blue paper which I later keyed out in the edit and replaced with my own backgrounds. After everything was edited together, I put the digital footage to a VHS tape which to me made it look like some freaky lost children’s program! – Willem Kingma
Tracks from WHICH WAY IS OUT have seen The Grogans collectively added to Spotify’s New Music Friday AU & NZ, Fresh Finds AU & NZ, Local Noise, and Indie Arrivals and music video adds Rage and MTV. Whether it’s Quin’s rhyming lyrics and captivating vocals, Angus’ irresistible guitar riffs, or Jordan’s punctuated and propelling percussion, “We’re not exactly sure Which Way Is Out but, when it comes to The Grogans, we’re definitely all in.” – Bryget Chrisfield.
Get ready to scream the lyrics at the top of your lungs of some old favourites and these new gems, as the trio transcend the borderlines between heavy, cruisy, and acoustic tracks with their fresh twist on the classic Grogans sound.
Stream WHICH WAY IS OUT now via Cousin Will Records
WHICH WAY IS OUT is out now via Cousin Will Records
WHICH WAY IS OUT ALBUM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES:
Fri 10 Feb, Ninch Fest, Mornington Peninsula, Vic
Sat 18 Feb, Temple Sessions Festival, Yeppoon, Qld
Thu 23 Feb – Meow, Wellington, NZ
Fri 24 Feb – OneFest – Dunedin, NZ
Sat 25 Feb – Yonder, Queenstown, NZ
Thu 2 Mar – The Mothership, Auckland, NZ
Fri 3 Mar – The Yard, Raglan, NZ
Sat 4 Mar – Beast Of A Feast Festival, Mt Maunganui, NZ
Fri 10 Mar, Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide (All Ages), Sa
Sat 11 Mar, Settlers Tavern, Margaret River, Wa
Sun 12 Mar, Y Hq, Perth (U18 Matinee), Wa
Sun 12 Mar, Badlands Bar, Perth, Wa
Thu 16 Mar, The Northern, Byron Bay, Nsw
Fri 17 Mar, Mo’s Desert Clubhouse, Gold Coast, Qld
Sat 18 Mar, O’skulligans, Brisbane (U18 Matinee), Qld
Sat 18 Mar, Woolly Mammoth, Brisbane, Qld
Sun 19 Mar, Eleven Dive Bar, Sunshine Coast, Qld
Thu 23 Mar, Dicey Riley, Wollongong, Nsw
Fri 24 Mar, Crowbar, Sydney, Nsw
Sat 25 Mar, The Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle (All Ages), Nsw
Sun 26 Mar, Uc Hub, Canberra, Act
Fri 31 Mar, The Royal Oak, Launceston, Tas
Sat 01 Apr, Altar Bar, Hobart, Tas
Thu 06 Apr, Torquay Hotel, Torquay, Vic
Fri 14 Apr, The Croxton, Melbourne, Vic
Sat 22 Apr, The Gasometer, Melbourne (U18 Matinee), Vic
All tickets on sale now via thegrogansband.com
