sleepmakeswaves reschedule 'these are not your dreams' Australian tour to 2021 with special guests Rolo Tomassi (UK)
Australian instrumental post-rockers sleepmakeswaves have announced their ‘these are not your dreams’ Australiantour will be rescheduled for 2021, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The band released a statement to fans, saying:
Hey everyone,
Our hearts go out toall of you sharing in the anxiety and disruption caused by the outbreak ofCOVI-19 worldwide. Having been fortunate enough to travel widely over theyears, we send big love not only to our Australian fans, but also our friendsin Asia, NZ, greater Europe and America. SMW and our team are all doing ourbest to remain calm and rational while also taking the pandemic seriously.
An unfortunateconsequence of this is that we cannot proceed with our Australian tour thisyear. It’s not only that the Australian Government directives render eventsunfeasible – we also believe that it’s our duty to minimise community transmissionof the virus in Australia. Our hearts are heavy making this call, but we firmlybelieve it’s the right thing to do.
We have been able toreschedule the dates for April 2021 and we’re very pleased that ROLO TOMASSIhave agreed to stay on the lineup. We’re also happy that the new dates havealigned in such a way for them to join us in Adelaide & Perth as well asthe originally planned Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney shows. Furthermore,we’ve also added a new show in Newcastle which will kick off our first headlinetour of Australia in 3 years (by the time this tour rolls around!).
Any tickets purchasedfor the original dates will be valid for the new dates and refunds if requiredwill be available from the relevant ticket outlets.
We also need to pushback the release date of the EP trilogy to July 17, as some of this music wasyet to be produced when the virus restrictions were imposed. Otto returned fromLondon in March to a 2-week stint in quarantine and since then we’ve beenworking remotely to best comply with self isolation advice.
We’re very happy toshare with you the new EP ‘Out of Hours’ very soon, as well as the full recordwhen it comes out in July.
The ‘No Safe Place’EP is now streaming online in full at www.sleepmakeswaves.bandcamp.com
The economic impactsof this pandemic are vast. For musicians specifically, the cancellation of liveshows is a necessary measure that puts the main income stream of anyindependent band on ice. This also has flow on effects to the live musiceconomy, as we are just one of a number of bands that can no longer providework this year to our tour manager, live mix engineer, guitar techs, lightoperator, backline/production spec providers, etc. You get the picture.
If you want tosupport bands and artists, Bandcamp is waiving their merchant fee for 24 hoursfrom 6pm Sydney time (12am PST and 7am GMT) on Friday 1st May,Friday 5 June and Friday 3 July. So please hop online and do your buying there.
If you want tosupport the wider industry, please make a donation to www.supportact.org.au or buy our tour manager’s RIP Live Music 2020t-shirt at www.imprintmerch.com.au/pages/backstage-darling
It’s taken a virus toremind us that we are all human and that we have to work together. We encourageyou to find that part of yourself that can stay cool under pressure while notignoring or dismissing the gravity of the situation we are in. If you are in aposition to stay home, please do so for the sake of minimizing transmission inthe community. But don’t forget that ‘social distancing’ does not mean socialisolation. Reach out to your friends and family, so we can all be resilient asa community.
Cheers,
Alex, Otto & Tim
Once the band hit the road again in 2021, the‘these are not your dreams’ shows will feature new music from their recentlyannounced EP trilogy of the same name.
The band will visit Newcastle, Canberra, Adelaide,Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney, playing new material and rare oldertracks – as well as some classic sleepmakeswaves bangers.
UK math-rock luminaries ROLO TOMASSI will join as main support for all shows exceptNewcastle & Canberra, following their latest release ‘Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It.’ They last toured Australiafour years ago in 2016.
sleepmakeswaves’s new music comes three years sincetheir ARIA-nominated 2017 release ‘Madeof Breath Only’ and their well regarded cover of ‘Children’ by Robert Miles recorded for triple j’s Like A Versionthe same year. In 2018/19 the band released a Metallica tribute ‘To Live Is NotTo Die’ and took a break from writing for a tour across Australia & Europecelebrating the band’s 10th anniversary.
The new record, titled ‘these are not your dreams’will be released on 17 July 2020.
Rather than following a conventional releasepattern, new songs will be released as a series of 3 EPs over the next fewmonths, with ‘No Safe Place’ out now,‘Out of Hours’ released on June 5 and‘Not an Exit’ released July 3.
The first single ‘Cascades’ debuted on triple j’s Home & Hosed in January, witha second track ‘the endings that wewrite’ premiering on triple j’s The Racket in February.
The band announced the news to fans with atypically quirky video online here
and have added more about the shows below:
We'repretty psyched about doing these upcoming headline shows. I know bands alwayssay things like that (we've said it a lot) but with a long break since we werelast playing gigs, it feels very exciting to crank up the ol' rock-o-matic 3000once more.
Rolo Tomassi are, as we like to say, "heaps sick" and we thinkoverwrought instru-prog x blackened art-hXc is going to be a winningcombination. Stay tuned for some great local supports on each of the shows aswell.
Hooroo,
Alex and smw
From Rolo Tomassi:
“We’re delighted to return to Australia for the first time inyears. It’s always been a firm favourite for our band and we’re very gratefulto sleepmakeswaves for extending an invite to us.
sleepmakeswaves
‘these are not yourdreams’ Australian tour 2021
w/special guests RoloTomassi (UK)*
Fri 9 April – Small Ballroom, Newcastle NSW TICKETS
Sat 10 April – The Basement, Canberra ACT TICKETS
Fri 16 April – Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide SA* TICKETS
Sat 17 April – Rosemount Hotel, Perth WA* TICKETS
Thu 22 April – The Triffid, Brisbane QLD* TICKETS
Fri 23 April – Max Watts, Melbourne VIC* TICKETS
Sat 24 April – Manning Bar, Sydney NSW* TICKETS
Presented by Bird’sRobe & Niche Talent Agency
Tickets on sale fromsleepmakeswaves.com & venue websites
‘these are not yourdreams’ full record released 17 July 2020 via Bird’s Robe/MGM
No Safe Place EP – out now
Out of Hours EP – releases Fri 5 June
Not an Exit EP – releases Fri 10 July 2020
Media: Mike Solo //Bird’s Robe Records // birdsrobe@gmail.com
SLEEPMAKESWAVES // LISTEN & WATCH
‘Cascades’ & ‘the endings that we write’ streamingonline at
www.sleepmakeswaves.bandcamp.com
Watch ‘Great Northern’
Watch ‘Something Like Avalanches’ (live)
Watch ‘The Stars Are Stigmata’ (live)
Watch ‘To Live Is To Die’ (Metallica)
Watch ‘Children’ (Robert Miles)
Listen to ‘Midnight Sun’:
ROLO TOMASSI //LISTEN/WATCH
Rituals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhcF-3wBlEw
Aftermath - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSQYs8KancA
More about sleepmakeswaves
It’s been a crazy twelve years for sleepmakeswaves, thelittle Sydney quartet who dreamed big.
Hundreds of shows amongst 16 Australian tours, 6 Europeantours, 2 North American tours, 2 Asian & New Zealand tours…
Unexpected critical acclaim including 3 ARIA nominations, 2AIR Award nominations and a nomination for a J Award, amongst highly ratedreviews from Rolling Stone, The Music, The Independent and more.
Airplay including 3 songs added to triple j rotation,spending a combined 20 weeks in the CMJ Top 200 at US college radio and airingon BBC6.
Even a glimmer of brief commercial success with 2 ARIA Top40 albums and a #1 spot on the 100% Independent Chart for ‘Made of BreathOnly.’ They even cracked the Top 100 in Kazakhstan.
Formed via an ad on Myspace (remember that?), the band’sstory started online and they continue to benefit from fans sharing their musicon the internet. From their debut unexpectedly clocking up 50,000 downloadsonline, to hitting 200,000 views as the soundtrack to a romantic ‘Twilight’movie fan video, or as the thumping opening theme for the AFL football seasoncoverage on Channel 7, sleepmakeswaves’ music has always taken a life of itsown amongst fans online. Recently, their triple j Like A Version tribute toRobert Miles’ ‘Children’ hit close to 1 million spins online, as did theirMetallica tribute ‘To Live Is To Die’, whilst the band’s Spotify listeners top1 million worldwide.
However, the story of the band is not complete without a nodto the work put in on the live stage.
Amongst the 300+ live dates played over the past few years,the band have visited 30 countries and headlined sold out shows on 5continents. They’ve played festivals including SXSW (USA), ArcTangent (UK),Euroblast (Germany), Dunk Festival (Belgium), Strawberry Festival (China) &NH7 Weekender (India). They’ve toured with and befriended a host of iconic anddiverse acts – Karnivool, COG, Devin Townsend, Underoath, Russian Circles andmany more. They’ve forged links with and created touring opportunities for manyof their international peers in Australia – 65daysofstatic, Rosetta, TheContortionist, This Will Destroy You, And So I Watch You From Afar and more.They fulfilled a decade-long dream in their hometown by headlining Sydney’siconic Metro Theatre to a packed house and recording the show for triple j’sLive at the Wireless (going on to headline there several more times).
Despite all these unprecedented milestones, mostimportantly, their biggest achievement has been to endure and continue makingmusic and performing for their fans. Through lineup changes, anever-more-difficult economic climate for independent niche artists, theft ofmoney and equipment, computers crashing, lost baggage, injuries, illness,operations, failed relationships, fire alarms, red tape and more, this band hasmaintained the passion and enthusiasm to continue creating. Their fans havesupported them – through pre-order campaigns to make new albums, through ticketsales, merch sales and social media, through images shared of tattoos, gifts ofbirthday cakes in Poland, drinks in Hungary, videos of cover versions fromIndia, tour guides in China, or just a handshake and a smile at the merch deskafter the show.
So…the continuation of this band is an ongoing a celebrationof all that. A way to say thank you for everything, with a quick glancebackwards, before continuing on with many more new things to come.
Expect plenty of surprises, new music and one heck of a livepost-rock show from this hard-working still-young band.
Check out more at www.sleepmakeswaves.com
sleepmakeswavesdiscography:
‘To Live Is To Die’(Metallica tribute) (2018)
‘Children’ (Robert Miles –Like A Version) (2017)
‘Made of Breath Only’ album(2017)
feat. ‘Tundra’ &‘Midnight Sun’
‘Love of Cartography’ album(2014)
feat. ‘Something LikeAvalanches’ & ‘Great Northern’ & ‘traced in constellations’
‘…and then they remixedeverything’ (2013)
‘…and so we destroyedeverything’ album (2011)
feat. ‘(hello) CloudMountain’ & ‘in limbs and joints’ & ‘now we rise and we are everywhere’
split EP with tangledthoughts of leaving (2009)
feat. ‘we sing the bodyelectric’ & ‘keep your splendid silent sun’
‘in today, already walks tomorrow’ EP (2008)
feat. ‘One day you will teachme to let go of my fears’ & ‘it’s dark, it’s cold, it’s winter’