We catch up with Perth's Young Revelry backstage at the 2011 Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie.

Check one, two… Festival of the Sun is back to finetune your summer, with 3,000 mates, a surfside location and a rocking homegrown line-up.

As part of Young Revelry's national tour I went down to FBI's new permanent venue FBI Social. Located on the second floor of the Kings Cross Hotel, it honestly felt like a strange place to be watching bands perform being the Cross and all, but once you step through the doors: the cosy atmosphere, cheerful ambience and general good cheer easily overwhelms and all that stereotyping gets thrown out the window.

“This rocking Perth trio channel the grunge gods of the early '90s into music that sounds anything but dated.. So piss off your parents and neighbours by turning up Young Revelry reeeeeally loud.” – Dom Alessio, triple j

NATIONAL TOUR & BRAND NEW SINGLE!

Glasvegas will play their very first Australian headline shows when they take to the stage in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne this July.

Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday May 27.

Glasvegas have already been announced as one of the highlights of the sold-out 2011 Splendour In The Grass festival.

YOUNG REVELRY
NEW WA TOUR DATES ADDED!

“Young Revelry’s debut EP “You And I” comes at you like some 90’s era beast rearing its head and gnawing some pretty impressive and noisy chops.”
- Whothehell.net

Firstly, my apologies to the first three acts on the bill for ‘Boys vs Girls’, a night where the battle lines of live music were (roughly) divided along gender lines. Initially put off leaving my house by the incessant rain, I arrived at the Annandale Hotel late, missing Betty Airs, Creepers & Bonney Read.

Perth’s Young Revelry are experimenters at heart. They are not your typical production-line indie rock band. On the snowballing success of their debut EP, You & I, Young Revelry have announced a run of national tour dates through March and April.