King Stingray will celebrate the release of their upcoming second album ‘For The Dreams’ with a national tour playing their biggest headline shows to date.
The tour announcement comes off the back of their ARIA nomination for Best Live Act and will see them hit some of the country’s most iconic venues in March and April 2025, supported by Brisbane’s Beddy Rays and Melbourne’s The BelAir Lip Bombs.
“We’re so excited for our album tour and absolutely frothing to play in those big beautiful venues,” the band share. “It’s our favourite thing to do and we’re so unbelievably keen to play some new songs as well as some classics. We are really going next level on this one. It’ll be our biggest tour ever and it’ll be a very special moment that you won’t wanna miss! Rock on and come join the party wave!”
To get fans pumped for the tour, King Stingray will also release a new song Light Up the Path this Thursday in line with the ticket pre-sale.
Light Up the Path will appear on the new 12-track album ‘For The Dreams’, alongside hits Through The Trees, Lookin’ Out, Best Bits and recent single Cat 5 (Cyclone). The album will be released on Friday November 8.
A lot has happened for King Stingray since they released their 2022 debut self-titled album, which took the group from what guitarist/producer Roy Kellaway calls “a pretty sleepy, rural lifestyle in the bush” to one of epic touring – a reputation as one of the country’s best live groups and the excitement of being a band on the rise.
Not surprisingly, those experiences inform the new album. Don’t however, expect a weary account of the rigours of life on the road – as with their debut, ‘For The Dreams’ is a joyous celebration of life and the planet on which we live that oozes optimism from its every note.
The group’s mantra when recording ‘For The Dreams’ was “Yaka Muckaround!”, meaning “We’re not mucking around!” Studio sessions were booked around Australia so that any downtime between gigs could be used to harness their live energy. The songwriting goals were to “level up” rather than reinvent the group’s sound. “We wanted a lot of singalong moments… We were thinking a little bit more about getting everyone in on the party.”
King Stingray’s debut earned them five ARIA nominations and won them the Breakthrough Artist gong; took out the Australian Music Prize and won the Album of the Year and Best Independent Rock Album at the 2023 AIR Awards. Impressive for a band that have stayed true to themselves, blending raucous rock’n’roll and the ancient Indigenous tradition of manikay (song/songlines), organically building a fanbase until the momentum became unstoppable.
KING STINGRAY ALBUM TOUR
Supported by Beddy Rays and The Belair Lip Bombs
Ticket pre-sale starts Thursday 10 October – 10am local time – SIGN UP HERE
General on sale starts Friday 11 October – 10am local time.
FRIDAY 21 MARCH – HORDERN PAVILION, SYDNEY NSW
SATURDAY 22 MARCH – THE FORTITUDE MUSIC HALL, BRISBANE QLD
FRIDAY 28 MARCH – HINDLEY STREET MUSIC HALL, ADELAIDE SA
SATURDAY 29 MARCH – THE FORUM, MELBOURNE VIC
FRIDAY 4 APRIL – FREO ARTS CENTRE (SOUTH LAWN), FREMANTLE WA
‘For The Dreams’ will be released on Friday November 8 – PRE-ORDER HERE
With thanks to Sony Music Australia
