Wagons
20th Anniversary Show
Corner Hotel
57 Swan St
Feb 15, 2019
8:30 PM GMT+11
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Wagons are, without doubt, a foundational keystone of the modern Indie-Americana movement in both Australia and around the world. Henry and band first wielded their twang-laden battering ram at a time when embroidered button down shirts and beards were far more sparse on the ground in Australia. After almost four years spent apart spreading their wings in other musical pursuits, Henry and his original band of lanky cronies are caged animals, thirsty for more after their triumphant comeback headlining the Out on the Weekend Festival in October alongside Third Man Records recording artist Margo Price.
These February shows mark a grand double-barreled anniversary for the band. Firstly, the band will celebrate 20 years since fist hitting the grimy Arthouse stage on a fateful Tuesday night in Melbourne in 1999. Secondly, they will also mark the 10 year anniversary of their breakthrough album The Rise and Fall of Goodtown, released in 2009. Wagons are excited to play the entire action packed roller-coaster of album in full at these shows, as well as a separate set of songs, pulling favourites from the rest of their six album strong career.
Joining Wagons on the night will be the amazing talents of one of Henry's favourite unsung US songwriters Charlie Whitten. Charlie has the stature of the fiercest Viking but also a pulsing heart as large and gentle as a lonely grizzly, at odds with the violence of the forest. His songs are clear evidence that this is a man with an obvious raw power, but used for the emotional good, to celebrate and harness the fragile, shine a light on unnoticed shadows, in the most beautiful, yearning way.
Get ready for an unabashed night celebrating a unique 20 year musical career, with Wagons at full flight, driving us down that perfectly tangled musical highway once more.
Wagons past work has received some of the following accolades:
'Album of the Week' on RRR + PBS + RTR + 2SER + Edge
The Age / EG ‘Best Band’ + 'Album of the Year'
Rhythms Magazine 'Album Of Year'
Mess and Noise ‘Best Group’ + 'Best Live Act' + 'Album of the Year'
AIR 'Country Album of the Year'
RRR Off the Record 'Album of the Year'
Brag, Beat, Drum Media 'Album of the Week'
Faster Louder 'Top 20 Albums Of Year'
Inpress 'Top 10 Albums Of Year'
Melbourne Magazine ‘Top 100 Most Influential People’ (Henry Wagons)
"Wagons makes sly rock ‘n’ roll that both intellectuals and pop fans can appreciate” - Nashville Cream
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October 15th 2018
It’s been a long 4 years waiting for Wagons to get the band back together and 1 hour wasn’t enough. Bring on the new album. This time I might tour it’s release around Australia... or is that too stalkerish?!
Melbourne, Australia@Out On The Weekend Festival
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Wagons Biography
On a fateful Tuesday night in 1999, at The Arthouse in Melbourne, Wagons hit the stage for the first time…
After two decades, Wagons still pulse and stomp together as a joint force, with singer Henry Wagons at the helm. Henry’s fierce intellect, once hurtling toward a career as a philosopher, was thankfully derailed by a record deal, a thirst for whisky and an insatiable need to make noise.
These tall and lanky entertainers are, without doubt, a foundational keystone of the modern Indie-Americana movement in both Australia and around the world. Henry and band first wielded their twang-laden battering ram at a time when embroidered button down shirts and beards were far more sparse on the ground in Australia. Times have changed with trucker hats and gingham studded shirts now available at K-Mart, yet Wagons, 20 years into their unique career, stay atop the their own tidal wave of hard hitting, outlaw inspired, swamp rock madness.
Wagons are making their triumphant return to 2019 releasing their first new music in five years, with their new album “Songs From The Aftermath”, out 9th August, along with an Australian tour throughout September. This upcoming album is the band’s first since 2014 and the unquestionably catchy first cut, “Keep on Coming Back” incorporates all the elements of the classic Wagons' sound, with a brand new spiraling twist. According to the band, “‘Songs From The Aftermath’ cascades through random visions and emotions, like a long road trip through the night.”
The sextet have been regularly compared to the cheekiest and most mischievous of musical outlaws, from Cash to Cave and have circled the globe testing the fortitude of some of the biggest stages at Bonnaroo, Bluesfest, Interstellar Rodeo, Laneway, Bumbershoot, Big Day Out, Out On The Weekend, Queenscliff, Ottawa Blues as well as SXSW and Americana showcases.
Producing six albums together, the band have garnered an increasing list of awards and achievements including 'Album of the Week' on RRR, PBS, RTR, 2SER, Edge radio, The Age / EG ‘Best Band’ & 'Album of the Year’, Rhythms Magazine 'Album Of Year’, AIR 'Country Album of the Year’, plus Melbourne Magazine naming Henry Wagons in their ‘Top 100 Most Influential People’.
After this long, their boot heels are etched in the stage floorboards. Wagons know exactly what they are doing. Fasten your shoelaces tight and get your feet to the big show.
Read MoreAfter two decades, Wagons still pulse and stomp together as a joint force, with singer Henry Wagons at the helm. Henry’s fierce intellect, once hurtling toward a career as a philosopher, was thankfully derailed by a record deal, a thirst for whisky and an insatiable need to make noise.
These tall and lanky entertainers are, without doubt, a foundational keystone of the modern Indie-Americana movement in both Australia and around the world. Henry and band first wielded their twang-laden battering ram at a time when embroidered button down shirts and beards were far more sparse on the ground in Australia. Times have changed with trucker hats and gingham studded shirts now available at K-Mart, yet Wagons, 20 years into their unique career, stay atop the their own tidal wave of hard hitting, outlaw inspired, swamp rock madness.
Wagons are making their triumphant return to 2019 releasing their first new music in five years, with their new album “Songs From The Aftermath”, out 9th August, along with an Australian tour throughout September. This upcoming album is the band’s first since 2014 and the unquestionably catchy first cut, “Keep on Coming Back” incorporates all the elements of the classic Wagons' sound, with a brand new spiraling twist. According to the band, “‘Songs From The Aftermath’ cascades through random visions and emotions, like a long road trip through the night.”
The sextet have been regularly compared to the cheekiest and most mischievous of musical outlaws, from Cash to Cave and have circled the globe testing the fortitude of some of the biggest stages at Bonnaroo, Bluesfest, Interstellar Rodeo, Laneway, Bumbershoot, Big Day Out, Out On The Weekend, Queenscliff, Ottawa Blues as well as SXSW and Americana showcases.
Producing six albums together, the band have garnered an increasing list of awards and achievements including 'Album of the Week' on RRR, PBS, RTR, 2SER, Edge radio, The Age / EG ‘Best Band’ & 'Album of the Year’, Rhythms Magazine 'Album Of Year’, AIR 'Country Album of the Year’, plus Melbourne Magazine naming Henry Wagons in their ‘Top 100 Most Influential People’.
After this long, their boot heels are etched in the stage floorboards. Wagons know exactly what they are doing. Fasten your shoelaces tight and get your feet to the big show.
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