Kristin Hersh returns to Australia in 2025 for National Tour
2023 saw Kristin Hersh play her first shows in Australia for seven years in celebration of her acclaimed album Clear Pond Road. A slew of sold-out dates during an east coast spring had Kristin reconnect with her favourite country in the world and convinced her that she needed to get back to play again as soon as she could. Currently in the studio completing another Throwing Muses album for an early 2025 release, Kristin Hersh will head back to Australia to play headline shows along the east coast through February/March, and sees her returning to Adelaide and Perth for the first time in a decade, as well as appearing at Port Fairy Folk and Blue Mountains Music festivals. The inimitable Kristin Hersh is a musician’s musician, a songwriter’s songwriter, and an innovator’s innovator. Her first band, Throwing Muses, began recording and playing out when they were just 14 years old and they’re still going. Their 2020 critically acclaimed Sun Racket album was hailed as “a perfect record”. “Hersh published an autobiography, Rat Girl: A Memoir, in 2010, and Clear Pond Road similarly looks back on her extraordinary life…like Hersh herself, the album resists convention and refuses to be pinned down. 4 stars” – Slant Magazine “One of indie rock’s most fascinating figures“ – The Guardian Wildly prolific, she has released more than 20 albums solo, with Throwing Muses and with her noise rock band, 50 Foot Wave. She’s also a celebrated author: Rolling Stone named her first book, Rat Girl, one of the ten best rock memoirs of all time. NPR said of her second book, Don’t Suck, Don’t Die, “…one of the most beautiful rock memoirs ever written.” Her third, the game-changing Seeing Sideways, pushes the envelope of creative non-fiction while telling the story of raising her 4 sons on a tour bus. Kristin’s ‘Clear Pond Road’ album is a cinematic road trip; a series of personal vignettes from a fiercely independent auteur, sitting plush with layers of all-consuming strings and mellotron. It’s a watershed moment in a career overflowing with creative firsts and inspirational thinking; an elegant piece of personal reportage, a home movie caught in time. |
| Troubadour Presents: Kristin Hersh Australian Tour 2025 |
| Friday, February 28 – Live at The Polo, Canberra |
| Saturday, March 1 – Mary’s Underground, Sydney |
| Sunday, March 2 – The Corner, Melbourne |
| Wednesday, March 5 – The Old Museum, Brisbane |
| Saturday, March 8 – Port Fairy Folk Festival |
| Sunday, March 9 – Port Fairy Folk Festival |
| Tuesday, March 11 – The Rosemount, Perth |
| Thursday, March 13 – Grace Emily, Adelaide |
| Saturday, March 15 – Blue Mountains Music Festival |
| Sunday, March 16 – Blue Mountains Music Festival |
| Tickets on sale 9am Thursday 12th September through www.troubadourpresents.com |
“Few artists understand the intensity of living one’s art like Hersh” – The Guardian
“Kristin Hersh is a musical genius” – Huffington Post
“A fearless rock innovator” – New York Times
“There are not many musicians who can process and distill their personal experience into art as skillfully as Hersh does, and few bodies of work can stand comparison with the series of powerful and affecting albums she has produced over the past few decades.”
– Spectrum Culture
“The work of an artist both singular and shape-shifting, always herself but never predictable“
– Uncut
“The portal to Hersh’s carefully documented world of otherness” – Mojo
“A stunning, stealthy, faintly malevolent collection of songs” – Q
