By TANIA PHILLIPS
SYDNEY hip hop duo Spit Syndicate continue to rack up the numbers, this time it’s in threes.
Following an absolutely huge nine months since the release of their third LP Sunday Gentlemen earlier this year, the band have just announced the release of ‘Amazing’, the third single to be lifted from said album.
Fresh from gracing the airwaves of Triple J just last week with their cover of Disclosure’s ‘Latch’ for Like A Version (as well as a live version of Amazing), they have also just announced that to celebrate the release of Amazing they will be embarking upon their third national tour off the back of Sunday Gentlemen, their biggest to date.
Beginning at Australia’s pre-eminent music conference Big Sound, this massive run of shows will see them criss-cross the country, including several regional and all-ages dates.
Sunday Gentlemen had already delivered two singles into Triple J rotation before debuting at number 15 on the ARIA charts in its week of release.
First single ‘Beauty In The Bricks’ spawned a sold out national tour of the same name, before second single release ‘Folly’ heralded the arrival of Sunday Gentlemen proper.
An album tour unlike any they’d staged before the ‘Sunday Gentlemen Tour’ saw the guys – and crucial collaborator DJ Joyride – roll out a second, even bigger, national tour – and again, selling out impressive venues in major cities Australia wide.
‘Amazing’ recognises the pay-off from all the hard work and sacrifice that Spit Syndicate experience in making their music. It’s the flipside, the gratitude; the mirror an artist holds up to their supporters and collaborators as an exercise in humility.
Who: Split Syndicate.
When: 10-12 October.
Where: Thursday 10 October – The Loft, Gold Coast QLD.
Friday 11 October – Woodys Surf Shack Byron Bay NSW.
Saturday 12 October – Alhambra Lounge, Brisbane QLD (under-18s).
