For Immediate Release: August 30, 2016 CHASTITY BELT SELL OUT MELBOURNE, ADD SECOND SHOW – ON SALE NOW Second show tickets available here: www.johncurtinhotel.wazala.com GET TO KNOW CHASTITY BELT IN “JOKE”– https://youtu.be/EB2oPAZzAsI
It seems Seattle’s, Chastity Belt have created quite a stir with their debut Australian tour announce. Last week the outfit sold out their first Australian show in Melbourne and since there’s another month till tour starts, the band have just announced a second show at The Curtin on Thursday, October 6, but don’t snooze, these are sure to be gone soon too. This show will see the band joined by their mates, Batpiss and Lalić. Strange Yonder & Future Popes present… CHASTITY BELT – AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2016: Thu. Sep 29, 2016 – BRISBANE – The Brightside || with Tempura Nights & Pool Shop Fri. Sep 30, 2016 – GOLD COAST – Elsewhere || with Donny Love & Wren Klauf Sat. Oct 1, 2016 – SYDNEY – Oxford Art Factory || with Big White & Shady Nasty Sun. Oct 2, 2016 – WOLLONGONG – Yours & Owls Festival
Thu. Oct 6, 2016 – MELBOURNE – The Curtin ** 2ND SHOW ANNOUNCED ** || with Batpiss & Lalić Fri. Oct 7, 2016 – MELBOURNE – The Curtin – SOLD OUT || with Loose Tooth & Baby Blue Tickets on sale now via www.strangeyonder.com Chastity Belt is a rock band consisting of four friends -­‐ guitarists Julia Shapiro and Lydia Lund, bassist Annie Truscott, and drummer Gretchen Grimm. They met in a tiny college town in Eastern Washington, but their story begins for real in Seattle, that celebrated home of Macklemore and the Twelfth Man. Following a post-­‐grad summer apart, a handful of shows and enthusiastic responses from the city’s DIY community led them, as it has countless others, into a cramped practice space. Before long the band released their debut album, No Regerts, in 2013 sold it out faster than anyone involved thought possible and unsurprisingly (they did take out Buzzfeed’s top spot for “most painfully awkward band photo”) caught the attention of cult-­‐label, Hardly Art who released their sophomore album, Time To Go Home in 2015 to critical acclaim. While reclaiming language historically used against women, lead vocalist, Julia, who also fronts Seattle punk band, Childbirth, is constantly entertaining. Her endlessly quotable lyrics of boredom, going out, getting laid and more importantly, gender inequality is built on a foundation of post-­‐post-­‐punk energy, jagged rhythms and instrumental moves that couldn’t be anyone else’s. Their transcendent and charming live shows have taken them on tour to Europe twice, earned them the support slot on one of Courtney Barnett’s multiple US tours, seen them share stages with Wire, Death Cab For Cutie and Protomartyr as well as gracing festival line ups including Sasquatch, Sled Island, The Great Escape and NXNE. *** WATCH “COOL SLUT” – https://youtu.be/7ffS__MlVZI WATCH “TIME TO GO HOME” – https://youtu.be/oU0xad1JNNQ ### Download hi-­‐res images and bio here: www.futurepopes.com/chastity-­‐belt Watch “Seattle Party”: https://youtu.be/FQ06vhQa8lA Watch Chastity Belt perform live on KEXP: https://youtu.be/u7KN85kmCSk Watch mini documentary about Chastity Belt: https://youtu.be/29AcCO7cGiY Watch interview with Chastity Belt on Impose: https://youtu.be/jDDT6mJc128 Chastity Belt Online: www.facebook.com/chastitybeltmusic www.twitter.com/chast1tybelt For more information, contact: Amanda Vitartas | Future Popes – [email protected], +6143 330 8407