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Tanks a lot

SEE IT LIVE
Tanks Arts Centre is starting off
the New Year with some exciting
Australian musicians.

Words: Alina Polishuk
Tanks Art Centre does a stellar job promoting
all things cultural in our fair city year-round.
The modest size of the music venue in Tank
5 (650 standing!) allows for unparalleled
intimacy, excellent acoustics, and a close-up
look at some of the country’s most exciting
performers. Tanks offers serious diversity in
acts, too; so whether you’re after a head-
banging deathcore metal show or an acoustic
evening that requires only gentle-swaying,
there’s sure to be something on offer any
given weekend. Here are a few shows kicking
off the 2020 season that we’re particularly
psyched about.

The Beautiful Girls
FEBRUARY 8
After 20 years of pumping out soulful
tunes and laid-back hits, Aussie roots
crew The Beautiful Girls finally released
their first greatest hits album. The band
will bring Seaside Highlife (a stunning
vinyl double LP that features original
artwork) to life with an expanded musical
Northlane lineup that includes extra horns, extra
JANUARY 25 bass, and extra guitars. To top it off, front
They’re fresh from a near sold out national tour, but heavy man Mat McHugh calls Tanks one of his
metal rock band Northlane is far from slowing down. The band favourite places to play in Australia, so
will continue with the “4D” regional tour of their latest ARIA- expect extra-good vibes.
nominated album Alien, alongside genre-bending deathcore
band, Gravemind. “4D” also offers a sweet opportunity for up-
and-coming local groups to get some stage time, which triple J The Black Sorrows
unearthed will select before the tour.
MARCH 20
The Australian bluesy rock band
will stop at Tanks on their “Lover I
C.W. Stoneking Surrender” tour, which highlights the
FEBRUARY 28 group’s latest album Citizen John.
Although Stoneking might be The Black Sorrows’ latest single,
best described as a blues artist, eponymous with the tour, is described
listeners will know there’s more by front man Joe Camilleri as a
to him than just that. The prolific “simple love song, a soul song,” but the
artist will bring sounds of pre- album as a whole features a range of
war New Orleans jazz, country, emotional overtones. The band is no
calypso, gospel, jug band and stranger to the stage (they’ve been
much, much more to the stage around since ’83 and Camilleri himself
in an intimate solo performance has nearly 50 albums under his belt),
that will delight long-time fans and this tour is supposedly one of their
and newbies alike. grooviest yet.

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