Tame Impala

MCD Presents
Tame Impala
The Olympia Theatre
Wednesday 21st August 2013

Psychedelic rock outfit Tame Impala have just announced details of an exclusive headline performance at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Wednesday 21st August 2013!

Tickets priced €25 inclusive of booking fee on sale now Ticketmaster outlets nationwide and www.ticketmaster.ie

Please note, Stalls standing & Circle seats are sold out. Upper Circle unreserved seats only available now.

From an informative point of view, Tame Impala are Kevin Parker, Dominic Simper, Jay Watson, Nick Allbrook and the most recent addition, Julien Barbagello. Loosely formed in 2007, their first EP was released in 2008, followed by the debut album Innerspeaker in 2010 and the follow up, Lonerism (2012)…

The Tame Impala sound is one equally informed by The Beatles as it is beat poetry, by Turkish prog as it is by Turkish Delight, and by English folk as much as homeless folk. Basically, it’s all about the feeling.

It was the release of Innerspeaker (2010) that made the globe stand up and take notice of the boys from Perth. It was thanks in part to its irreverent, contemporary spin on assumedly dead and forgotten sounds, as well as its unique, infinitely surprising way around a melody. The album, recorded and produced entirely by Kevin at what is essentially a treehouse with 180 degree views of the Indian Ocean, a few hours South West of Perth. With Flaming Lips’ Dave Fridmann on mixing duties and Death in Vegas’ Tim Holmes at the engineering wheel, the album achieved the “absolutely explosive” sound that Parker was aiming to reach.

After the Innerspeaker whirlwind, the boys came up for air for a bit. Not long after this, Kevin went into the creative wormhole and started getting the ideas for album number two from his brain and onto his trusty home recording set up. Thankfully a portable set up, the album was recorded around the globe, most prominently in Perth and Paris. Again, mixed by Dave Fridmann, the end result was Lonerism, gifted to the incredibly eager world in October 2012.

So excited was the globe for Lonerism that the outcome was a phenomenal sold out world tour at the end of 2012. If we pull out the calculator – that’s 29 cities, 33 dates and over 45,000 punters soaking up the mindblowing bliss that is a Tame Impala show. And that’s not including festivals!