Tourist Returns to Australia for a 2024 Tour

MELBOURNE, AU (July 2, 2024) - Grammy-award-winning songwriter and producer TOURIST announces today that he is returning to Australia this October for a 2024 tour. Fresh off the release of his fifth album, Memory Morning, TOURIST has unlocked a new mood-based, instinctive style of electronic song writing and composition that perfectly lends itself to an immersive live experience. 

TOURIST will start his trip around Australia at The Triffid in Brisbane on Tuesday 8 October, followed by stops at Northcote Theatre in Melbourne on Wednesday 9 October and Liberty Hall in Sydney on Thursday 10 October, before wrapping up the tour at Jack Rabbit Slims in Perth on Friday 11 October.

Tickets for all shows go on sale at 10am local on Friday 5 July.

Mastercard cardholders will have special access to presale tickets in Australia from Wednesday 3 July at 9am through Friday 5 July at 9am. Visit www.priceless.com/music to find out more.

My Live Nation members can secure tickets first during the exclusive pre-sale beginning Wednesday 3 July at 9am local time and concluding on Friday 5 July at 9am.

For complete tour and ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au

TOURIST
AUSTRALIA TOUR
OCTOBER 2024

THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE
TUESDAY 8 OCTOBER

NORTHCOTE THEATRE, MELBOURNE
WEDNESDAY 9 OCTOBER

LIBERTY HALL, SYDNEY
THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER

JACK RABBIT SLIMS, PERTH
FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER

TICKETS ON SALE 10AM FRIDAY 5 JULY
Mastercard pre-sale: Wednesday 3 July at 9am > Friday 5 July at 9am
My Live Nation pre-sale: Wednesday 3 July at 9am > Friday 5 July at 9am

For complete tour and ticket information, visit livenation.com.au

About TOURIST: 

English songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist William Phillips’s music as Tourist is aptly named. For the past decade, he’s taken a solo journey across electronic music in search of the perfect beat. Growing up in London and Cornwall, he fell in love with rave music played on pirate radio transmissions and club sound systems: Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers and Goldie turned him onto a whole new world. And later, as his own musicality developed, he gravitated towards the melodies of house and synth pop, which have shaped the Tourist sound. Across several EPs, he’s remixed a striking variety of artists; from Christine and the Queens to Churches and Deftones, to Wolf Alice, Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd; Sofia Kourtesis, Flume and Caroline Polachek. After winning a Grammy Award in 2015as a co-writer for Sam Smith’s massive hit single ‘Stay With Me’, he released four albums as Tourist - 2016’s U, 2019’s Wild and Everyday, and 2022’s Inside Out - all on Monday Records. During the coronavirus pandemic, the death of a close friend and the birth of his daughter changed his life. To express his interlocking grief and joy, he made Inside Out, a tender, uplifting album of swinging garage grooves, chunky bass, and French filter house melodies. And when he hit the road once again - touring the UK and Europe as a headline act, and as a support act for Bonobo - he had a revelation. “I love that the people who come to my shows do so not for my brand new album, but for what their idea of my music is,” he says. “I realized that each album in my career is the chapter of a book; some are more interesting than others, but you only know how interesting they are when you finish them.” And so, in 2023, he releases his next chapter.

Tourist’s fifth album, Memory Morning, released in May 2024. Made with the same, simple home set-up he used during the pandemic - an OP1 synthesizer, a laptop, a smartphone – this album moves away from explicit autobiography and towards a mood-based, instinctive style of electronic song-writing and composition. Drawn to the lush strangeness of shoegaze and psychedelic music - through his love of Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins and Beach House - the collagist nostalgia of his “utter heroes” The Avalanches, and the award-winning 2022 film Aftersun, Tourist wrote this album in a stream of consciousness mode, focusing on scene-setting and the intensity of the private listening experience. On ‘A Little Bit Further’, Tourist draws out 70s folk vocals into a subtle, rhythmic track; with sparkling synth lines and a blend of analog and digital drum patterns, it all crests to a wave of the nostalgic, ‘hug-your-friends’ style of melodic house ambience that’s become Tourist’s signature. Mark Fry’s “Song for Wilde” is the sample for A Little Bit Further, whilst he uses Grizzly Bear’s ‘About Face’ on ‘Second Nature’. Elsewhere, tracks like ‘Second Nature’, ‘Blink’, and ‘Lifted Out’ draw from a tonally sympathetic palette; string-and-piano riffs, harmonic vocal swells and fuzzy downtempo electronic beats melt into one another, allowing for an immersive listening experience. This is at the heart of Tourist’s latest chapter. “I’m attracted to repetition because that's the mood in itself - you can't escape it, look at it in a different way to think about it,” he says. With his fifth album, Tourist has travelled to a faraway point on his musical map, in his constant search for what the perfect song could be. He no longer makes tracks indebted to the rough ‘n’ ready dancefloor jams that defined his youth, designed for booming rave sound systems, but “wordless songs” inspired by his fond memories of them, for closer listening: “I want this album to be a place you go and visit often, and where you find new, little things in it every time you go.