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Manchester Orchestra Confirm
Australian Return

Chugg Entertainment, XIII Touring and triple j are pleased to announce that Manchester Orchestra will be returning to Australia this winter. July 2009 will see Atlanta’s Manchester Orchestra, return to play Splendour In The Grass Festival and headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne. Manchester Orchestra first toured Australia in February 2008 with the Laneway Festival and performed with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

Mean Everything To Nothing, the second album from Manchester Orchestra, is everything you want a rock record to be: raw, urgent, emotional, and 100 percent authentic. “There is nothing fake about this record,” says frontman and lyricist Andy Hull. “There’s not one fake sound on it. We recorded it live because we wanted it to sound like a band, and I think it does: live and loud!”

Inspired by the pounding, primal assault of Weezer’s Pinkerton, Nirvana’s In Utero, and Foo Fighters’ The Colour and the Shape, this young band has created its own version of what a classic rock album should sound like, complete with fiercely beautiful melodies, shifting guitar and keyboard textures, loud/soft dynamics, and an urgency in each band member’s performance, especially Hull’s cathartic vocals.

Indeed the band’s chemistry is palpable on Mean Everything To Nothing, perhaps because, after more than a year of touring with such artists as Kings of Leon, Brand New, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Say Anything, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, as well as performing their own headlining shows, Manchester Orchestra has become a powerful and well-oiled machine. “The touring made us so incredibly tight on all levels,” Hull says, “so there was no pride involved if someone said, ‘No that doesn’t work, don’t do that.’ No one got their feelings hurt because we were all dedicated to the same thing - making the best record we could.”

Manchester Orchestra are: Andy Hull vocals, guitar; Jonathan Corley bass; Jeremiah Edmond drums; Christopher Freeman keyboard; Robert McDowell guitar.