Ball Park Music is back and they’re better than ever. Almost three years since the release of their last album, the brilliant Weirder & Weirder, the Brisbane legends return with their eighth studio album Like Love, accompanied by a huge national tour.
Scheduled for a Friday 4 April release, Like Love is named after its heartfelt title track, an acoustic masterpiece that is sure to soundtrack plenty of first dances and entries to weddings over the coming years. Following “Like Love”, the band has released new single “Please Don’t Move to Melbourne” as the album’s second single, coinciding with the announcement of a nine-date national tour (supported by Bean Magazine), with a couple New Zealand shows thrown in for good measure.
With its origins coming from many moons ago, “Please Don’t Move to Melbourne” is inspired by the time when many friends of the band were departing Brisbane for greener pastures down south. Despite its age and stranger than usual construction, the band believes “Please Don’t Move to Melbourne” truly to be one of the favourite song they’ve ever made.
It looks like Ball Park Music has managed to hit gold once more, with their headline tour poised to be one not to miss when they head out across the country this May and June. With tickets on sale from Tuesday 11 February, you’d be mad for missing out on tickets to one of Australia’s greatest live bands.
Ball Park Music “Like Love” Album Tour Dates
Friday 2 May – Forth Pub, Forth, Tasmania
Saturday 3 May – Odeon Theatre, Hobart, Tasmania (All Ages)
Thursday 8 May – Prince of Wales, Bunbury, Western Australia
Friday 9 May – The River, Margaret River, Western Australia
Friday 16 May – Forum, Melbourne, Victoria
Saturday 17 May – Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide, South Australia
Friday 23 May – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane, Queensland
Friday 30 May – Enmore Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales (All Ages)
Friday 6 June – San Fran, Wellington, New Zealand
Saturday 7 June – Tuning Fork, Auckland, New Zealand (All Ages)
Friday 13 June – UC Refectory, Canberra, ACT
For more information on tickets and the album, head here.
