Fanning Dempsey National Park Reveal Regional Australian Tour Dates

Fanning Dempsey National Park embarked on their first-ever Australian tour last year, playing in capital cities nationwide in support of their debut album, The Deluge. This April and May, they’re hitting the road again – and this time, they’re going regional.

The forthcoming tour will see Bernard Fanning (of Powderfinger fame) and Paul Dempsey (of Something For Kate fame) and their band perform in Byron Bay, Cairns, Hobart, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Newcastle, Thirroul, Canberra, Toowoomba, the Sunshine Coast, and the Gold Coast.

The Deluge regional tour will see Fanning Dempsey National Park play in all ages and 18+ venues; you can find all the dates and venues below. Tickets to the tour go on sale on Thursday, 23 January, at 10 am local time via the Fanning Dempsey National Park website.

In addition to announcing a regional tour today, the group have shared a new single, Blackstar, that missed the cut on the album. Fanning said about the new track, “Blackstar went through a full cycle of styles before arriving fully formed as a minimalist pop-rock tune.

“Sometimes, when putting an album together, you can deceive yourself into adding more ‘stuff’ to a song to make it sound different. Often, leaving that ‘stuff’ out is the key to making it work… just let the song be itself, as written, and step away from it. I think we only did a couple of takes of this one.”

You can check out Blackstar below.

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