WA’s rising indie-rock duo Old Mervs are gearing as much as play huge exhibits throughout Australia later this 12 months, on their greatest headline tour but.
David House and Henry Carrington-Jones, the charismatic larrikins hailing from Kojonup in WA’s Great Southern, will embark on their On The Road Again Tour and can play at Metropolis Fremantle on October 27.
The tour comes off the again of earlier sell-out excursions in Australia and New Zealand, a slot at Groovin the Moo Bunbury and a current run supporting King Stingray.
Before their gig in Freo, Old Mervs will play some huge rooms in Burleigh Heads, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne with the tour wrapping up in Sydney on November 10.
They’ll be taking new single Sweetheart on the highway, which was added to triple j rotation and was one of many station’s most-played tracks in June.
Garnering an area popularity for his or her energetic singalong exhibits in WA, Old Mervs have shortly develop into considered one of Australia’s hottest commodities with their final headline tour promoting greater than 6000 tickets.
The 23-year-olds are using a surf-rock renaissance in WA with their ‘nothing’s ever an issue’ perspective, nation appeal, catchy hooks and breezy guitars seen all through tracks like Cellphone, Wait Around and Where I Go.
Last 12 months, Old Mervs delivered their extremely anticipated debut EP, Get Better — recorded and produced with the famend Dave Parkin (Sly Withers, Spacey Jane) — which noticed the band take a major step of their sonic evolution.
Just six years in the past the farmers and greatest mates had been jamming out in a repurposed horse steady on their days off throughout harvest, now they’ve gone on to help a number of the greatest artists on this planet together with Liam Gallagher, The Wombats and Spacey Jane.
House and Carrington-Jones grew up collectively as greatest mates in Kojonup from the age of 5.
“I grew up heavily influenced by my dad and the bands he played in out of Kojonup — mainly rock’n’roll and blues — and I learnt drums from an early age,” Carrington-Jones advised the Albany Advertiser final 12 months.
House, too, was immersed in music from a teen.
“My granny probably had the most direct influence on the start of me playing through piano,” he mentioned.
“Besides that, my dad’s love for The Wombats and my mother’s love of ABBA were just parts of growing up with music.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
