The Maccabees to Play Headline Australian Shows May 2012

Having just been announced on GTM festivals, The Maccabees will also be performing headline shows across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth for their first trip to Australia.

Having dropped the single ‘Pelican’ late in 2011, a mighty tune to rival ‘Love You Better’, high on the agenda for The Maccabees in 2012 is the release of third album ‘Given to the Wild’.

The album was released on the 27th Jan receiving JJJ Feature Album and #5 in the UK charts. The lads are also making no secret of wanting to pick up where the Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian left off.

The Maccabees third album ‘Given To The Wild’ is the culmination of two years of writing and recording. Having followed ‘Wall of Arms’ – 2009’s critically-lauded second release – with main stage slots at Reading and Leeds Festivals, and two sell-out shows at Brixton Academy, the London five piece (singer Orlando Weeks, bassist Rupert Jarvis, guitarists Felix and Hugo White and drummer Sam Doyle) are showing that ‘Given To The Wild’ is a sprawling masterpiece of distorted pop, psychedelia and soulful guitar wig outs. It is the band’s most adventurous work to date.

THE MACCABEES HEADLINE SHOWS MAY 2012:

WEDNESDAY 9TH MAY, THE HI FI, BRISBANE
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THURSDAY 10TH MAY, METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY
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WEDNESDAY 16TH MAY, THE HI FI, MELBOURNE
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FRIDAY 18TH MAY, CAPITOL, PERTH
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