Ed Kowalczyk - 2014 Australia / New Zealand tour, ‘Throwing Copper’ 20th Anniversary Celebration Options

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Ed Kowalczyk will be touring Australia in February of 2014.


February 5, 2014 - Perth (Metro City)
February 7, 2014 - Adelaide (Her Majesty's Theatre Adelaide)
February 8, 2014 - Melbourne (Forum Theatre)
February 9, 2014 - Melbourne (Forum Theatre)
February 11, 2014 - Sydney (Enmore Theatre)
February 12, 2014 - Brisbane (The Tivoli)
February 14, 2014 - Auckland (The Tuning Fork)

Pre-sale starts September 27. Public on-sale October 4.

http://www.livenation.com.au/artist/ed-kow...?omq=ed%20kowal

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Of and don't forget about Shit Town

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Promo video for the tour


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X99Bpo9WW5M

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Article from Rip It Up.

The ‘90s were a different time. Before pop royalty like Britney, Katy and Beyoncé dominated the radio, Australian airwaves were rife with the music of Live – an unassuming rock band from the States that introduced Australia to gloriously epic rock songs like Dolphin’s Cry and I Alone, and taught us to embrace lyricism about phoenixes and roses.

It seems the members in Live didn’t heed the Dolphin’s Cry, however. In 2009 the band dissolved after some well publicised disputes, resulting in frontman Ed Kowalczyk (yes, the bald guy) leaving the band. Since then the songwriter has since gone on to enjoy lucrative solo career, but this February he’ll be hitting Australian soil with something more of a throwback in mind – to perform Live’s most famous album, 1994’s Throwing Copper, in celebration of its 20th anniversary as a solo act.

The performances will also act as a springboard for him to showcase material from his new album, The Flood And The Mercy.

Kowalczyk chats to Rip It Up from his home in Connecticut in the midst of some “decompression time”.

“I just go back from a month-long tour of Europe promoting The Flood And The Mercy so I’ve just been catching up at home and trying to relax.”

Kowalczyk’s new album The Flood And The Mercy, the third in his solo back catalogue, comes out this week through Sony.

“The new album – I’m super proud of it. Again, we just nished this amazing tour of Europe and the fan response was just incredible. They were really into the music, so that has me really energised,” Kowalczyk continues.

“Of course, when I’m coming to Australia to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Throwing Copper we’re also going have a set/encore to get some of my solo songs in there. I imagine it will be a pretty long show. We’ll have to get to a lot of different places. Put together by producer Jamie Candiloro, The Flood And The Mercy features a number of exciting collaborations. Notably, founding R.E.M member Peter Buck on a variety of “mysterious sounding” instruments, from guitar to mandolin to sitar.

“[Peter Buck] performed on nine songs, and that was sort of a dream come true for me, being a massive R.E.M fan,” he divulges.

“So I’m over the moon about it. And the fans that have heard it so far are really loving it.”

Despite the choppy history with his old band, Kowalczyk’s songwriting “craft” has “always really been the same, even as a solo artist.

“My craft has always really been the same, which is sitting down with an acoustic guitar and coming up with the best melodies I can. So that really hasn’t changed, if anything I’ve just gotten some more collaborations – like this album – which are outside the envelope. I didn’t write anything with Peter [Buck], but we collaborated on the production. So mostly it’s still the same, as far as me just sitting down and coming up with things, but in this new chapter of my life as a solo artist its all about branching out and getting to know new people.”

The success of Throwing Copper in Australia is no secret, with the album virtually acting as the primary sustenance for Triple M throughout the better half of the late ‘90s. The Australian response to Kowalczyk’s songwriting has not gone unnoticed.

“When I think of Australia in general, it’s just this incredible feeling that my music has landed. That it’s just reached really deeply with people. Australian fans have just connected with it on such a deep level with such longevity, and the excitement is just still so palpable for everything I’m doing. As an artist you dream about this kind of fan base, it’s a dream come true.”

Aside from the fans, one thing Kowalczyk fondly remembers about our sunburnt country is the coffee.

“One of the best ‘dishes’ I’ve ever had in Australia is the coffee!” he laughs.

“You guys really know how to coffee. You guys are absolutely devoted to it, and every time I come home I realise how spoilt you guys are on the coffee front.”

http://www.ripitup.com.au/music/article/ed...ew-october-2013

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Ed Kowalczyk Talks Life After Live, 20 Years Of Throwing Copper, & Where He’s Headed Next

Written by Monique Sebire on 6 November 2013

Pennsylvanian rockers Live were at their peak in the mid-’90s, spawning such hits as ‘Lightning Crashes’, ‘I Alone’ and ‘Dolphin’s Cry’.

With the release of their sophomore album Throwing Copper in 1994, they were catapulted into mainstream success, reaching number one on the Billboard album chart in 1995.

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of Throwing Copper, and songwriter and former frontman Ed Kowalczyk is taking the album on the road, performing it from start to finish on stages across Australia. Where, interestingly, the band have had almost more success than at home.

“It’s one of those beautiful, mysterious things,” Kowalczyk says of his Aussie followers.

“I don’t think about it too much because I’m just very grateful for it … It’s a depth and a connection with the lyric [and] my craft; it’s the kind of fanbase you really dream about as an artist.”

That isn’t to say that his fellow countrymen aren’t loyal too, with the follow-up to Throwing Copper, 1997’s Secret Samadhi debuting at number one on the US album chart.

Such subsequent success gives a lot of weight to the decision to play Throwing Copper more or less exclusively on this tour.

“It was definitely the record that established me as a songwriter and a performer, so when the 20th anniversary started to roll around I thought, ‘what better place than Australia to start what will probably be a year-long celebration of this body of work?’”

Kowalczyk hasn’t parted with other Live classics for this tour, however. He plans on incorporating – amongst others – ‘Dolphin’s Cry’, ‘Lakini’s Juice’ and ‘Turn My Head’, as well as songs from his debut and recent sophomore solo albums, into the encore.

“We’re committing right now to playing a really long show,” he affirms.

The “we” Kowalczyk refers to isn’t the band currently known as Live, but rather the touring musicians that he’s played with since going solo, somewhat controversially, in 2009.

“They’re great friends, great musicians,” Kowalczyk gushes of his bandmates, describing their new interpretations of Live’s songs as “reinvigorating.”

“It’s exciting for me after so many years of doing it the same way.”

He labels his split from the band as a “renaissance”, “energy resurgence” and “a new chapter” in his life, explaining, “As an artist, that’s what you have to do to keep it fresh, and be able to stay interested and energetic about [your music].”

Fans can rest assured that by no means will the tracks differ greatly from their original sound.

“You don’t really want to change [the songs] … There are slightly different rhythmic interpretations and things like that that won’t necessarily change the songs that much, but from my perspective are big changes because of how many years I’ve been doing them.

“Just adding that freshness to it has been really revolutionary for me in a great way.”

It was that “freshness” that Kowalczyk went searching for four years ago, initially going on a temporary hiatus before deciding not to return to Live. Any alleged bitterness isn’t evident.

“I’m grateful for all my experiences in the original band … but it had just started to get kind of old and that’s a really dangerous place for an artist to be.”

He also emphasises that fans of Live seemed to support this decision, and have been very receptive to his solo work.

“Immediately the fans recognised a newfound energy and light in the new records,” – so much so that he describes his career as currently at “fever pitch” with the new album, The Flood And The Mercy.

“I know from their reaction that we’re all on the right track.”

Kowalczyk seems to have avoided the pitfalls that strike many lead singers-cum-solo artists, and puts it down to his fearless attitude. As a self-confessed risk taker, he was quite confident in his decision to embark on a solo career and maintains that his demand “really didn’t change at all.”

“There’s a leap of faith in anything you do,” he admits. “But I was pretty sure that if I kept doing things with the passion that I’ve always had then things would fall into place, and they did.”

Things were very much in place at the time Throwing Copper was recorded, which is part of the reason behind choosing this album to tour.

“I was really at the top of what I was doing at the time … When I wrote [the album] and we recorded and performed it, [the songs] were special then and they remain really special for me as a performer.”

With The Flood And The Mercy just released and most of 2014 booked up already with the Throwing Copper tour, the man behind the songs is planning on just “going with the flow” before planning his next move.

Recording isn’t off the cards either, but in his philosophical manner, Kowalczyk concludes, “We’ll see what happens. One thing I really like to do is just see where inspiration leads me.”

The Flood And The Mercy is out now through Sony Music.

http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/features/interv...headed-next.htm