Steve Kilbey is Australian contemporary music royalty. A prolific artist who has written, performed and produced 21 solo albums, as well as 30 with rock legends The Church.
His artistic oeuvre spans more than 45 years, and reaches outside the world of music, flowing in a cellular formation through his poetic lyrics into his psychedelic art paintings and far beyond.
Steve has published 3 books (with a new one in the works), composed and written 750 songs, has conjured lyrics of biblical proportions, poured out plenteous poetry and imagined and realized hundreds of original paintings. Sydney Rococo is a collection of Steve Kilbey songs written over the last 5 years.
The songs sing of Sydney and her ocean pools, her underground seedy hangouts and treachery. The picture is painted in every song about life in this fast growing and evolving Australian city, famed for her beaches and landmarks. What’s most tangible in the music is the lifestyle, habits and pastimes of those who belong to a non-mainstream world. Each song is a love song, but also a tale of woe and heartache.
Typical Kilbey, making us fall in love and simultaneously feel the heartbreak of loss, betrayal and abandonment. Come and feel it within a song or 11 and get your own moves on with the infectious, pumping rhythmic melodies. This is SK’s finest work to date. Fresh and modern, conceived with muses, it’s ready to conquer the world.
Sydney Rococo will be released on November 23, the same day that Steve begins the Australian leg of The Church’s Starfish 30thAnniversary worldwide tour. The album will also be available for sale as merch at the shows.”
THE CHURCH TOUR DATES
Friday, November 23: Anita’s Theatre. Wollongong
Saturday, November 24: Nex, Newcastle
Sunday, November 25: QPAC, Brisbane
Friday, November 30: State Theatre, Sydney – SOLD OUT
Saturday, December 1: Palais Theatre, Melbourne
Sunday, December 2: Royal Theatre, Canberra
Tuesday, December 4: Auckland NZ
Friday, December 7: Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide
Sunday, December 9: Concert Hall, Perth
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