RVG LIVE ON KEXP + ANNOUNCE CASTLEMAINE SHOW THURSDAY DECEMBER 9
Today sees the release of RVG's Live on KEXP at Home session, a rip-roaring set that includes some of the band's most beloved songs and two brand new unreleased tracks. Filmed amidst the latest lockdown RVG reunited for the first time in months, invoking the energy and magnetism of their live shows within the familiar walls of Soundpark Studios.
~Watch the full KEXP session HERE~
Directed by Nick McKk with sound by Andrew 'Idge' Hehir the session is an electric look at the renowned live band (recently nominated Best Live Act at the Music Victoria Awards) in action, with their energy and earnest intensity an intoxicating thread throughout the set. The debut of two new songs 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tambourine' is a look into what the band have been working on these past two years, a glimpse of what 2022 holds.
RVG today also announce a show at the Theatre Royal Castlemaine on Thursday December 9th. Marking their first headline show in Castlemaine it will be a chance for the band to celebrate Feral for the last time before moving onto their next chapter. RVG will be joined by special guests Mod Con and Blonde Revolver, you can buy tickets here. Closer to home tickets to their show at the Corner Hotel on Saturday November 27th are selling fast, get them while you still can here.
Released in April 2020 Feral was both a cry for help and call to action, resonating deeply with audiences, the album was nominated for five Music Victoria Awards, received Album of the Week on Double J, RRR, PBS, 2SER, 4ZZZ, SYN FM, Edge Radio, Radio Adelaide, The Music, Tone Deaf, was album of the day on Bandcamp and landed on a glut of end of year lists. Recorded at Head Gap studios with producer Victor Van Vugt (PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Beth Orton), Feral was RVG’s first full-length release in three years, coming just as the world went into hibernation.
To Romy Vager, RVG’s lead singer and lyricist, to feel feral is to feel outside of everything. Throughout the album that feeling of isolation is incited, but it never feels hopeless: these songs channel the raw energy of despair and frustration into melodies that often feel victorious, perhaps only because they so aptly supply a soundtrack to the end of days.
This year has seen a collaboration with Julia Jacklin, covering Björk's 'Army of Me', a slot at Boogie Festival, and what would have been an Australian tour. RVG end the year and the Feral era with two shows, November 27th at the Corner Hotel and December 9th at Theatre Royal. Tickets are on sale now.
RVG live is Romy Vager,Reuben Bloxham, Marc Nolte and Isabele Wallace.