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Jakob

Event Details

Friday, November 28, 2014
Headline Artist: Jakob
Venue: Hermann's Bar
Cnr of City Rd & Butlin Ave
2006 Darlington
AU

New Zealand’s Jakob announce Australian tour in support of new album Sines; release new single Blind Them With Science.Cult post-rock outfit Jakob are awakening from a long slumber to break an eight-year silence with a Australian tour this November, bringing their formidably beautiful and long-awaited new record Sines.Having toured Europe, the UK, Australasia and the US on the back of their 2006 record Solace, Jakob were twice personally invited to tour with American prog-rock heroes Tool throughout Australia and New Zealand, and toured along-side Damo Suzuki, frontman for seminal German psychedelic band Can. Injuries that prompted the eight-year hiatus are now a distant memory – New Zealand’s most formidable post-rock three-piece is back in full swing and ready to bring their unmistakable sonic texturing to the stage with a New Zealand and Australia tour in what will be an explorative aural adventure.The album’s opening track and premiere single Blind Them With Science deftly...

Artists Performing at this Event

Jakob is a New Zealand post-rock band, based in Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The band consists of guitarist Jeff Boyle; bassist Maurice Beckett; and drummer Jason Johnston.

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