US post-hardcore outfit Thrice have announced two new dates for their upcoming Australian tour – where they’ll celebrate the 20th anniversary of their major label debut, 2003’s ‘The Artist In The Ambulance’ – after shows in Melbourne and Perth sold out.
The band will perform their third album in full at all dates of the run, which will kick off with the newly announced Melbourne show on Thursday August 31. It’ll be followed by the original date the night after (September 1), before Thrice hit stages at Sydney’s Metro Theatre and Brisbane’s Princess Theatre on Saturday September 2 and Sunday 3, respectively.
The stint will continue at the Lion Arts Factory in Adelaide on Tuesday September 5, with two shows at Badlands in Perth – the original, sold-out show on Wednesday September 6, and the new show on Thursday 7 – wrapping up the tour. Tickets for all seven shows are on sale now – find them here.
“Some of our favorite memories of touring in Australia are from the first time we toured ‘The Artist In The Ambulance’ there,” Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue said in a statement announcing the tour. “There was such a great energy to those shows, and we can’t wait to do it again.”
‘The Artist In The Ambulance’ arrived in July 2003, following up 2002’s ‘The Illusion Of Safety’. The album contains some of the band’s most well-known songs – its title track, ‘Stare At The Sun’, ‘All That’s Left’ and ‘Under A Killing Moon’ – and peaked at 16 on the Billboard 200 chart.
In 2015, NME named it one of 20 emo albums that had stood the test of time, saying the band “began to open their sound out to spacey experimentation” on the album, and “redirected their inner angst at the shady, greedy world of Wall Street”.
Thrice have gone on to release eight more studio albums since ‘The Artist In The Ambulance’ was released. The most recent, ‘Horizons/East’, was released in 2021.
Thrice’s 2023 ‘The Artist In The Ambulance’ 20th anniversary Australian tour dates are:
AUGUST
Thursday 31 – Melbourne, Northcote Theatre (NEW SHOW)
SEPTEMBER
Friday 1 – Melbourne, Northcote Theatre (SOLD OUT)
Saturday 2 – Sydney, Metro Theatre
Sunday 3 – Brisbane, Princess Theatre
Tuesday 5 – Adelaide, Lion Arts Factory
Wednesday 6 – Perth, Badlands (SOLD OUT)
Thursday 7 – Perth, Badlands (NEW SHOW)