2017 marks 25 years of The Waifs! To celebrate and commemorate, the band will be hitting the road for a mammoth national tour, and are releasing their fourteen track studio album, ‘Ironbark’, along with 11 bonus tracks making a rousing collection of 25 songs, to celebrate 25 years. Recorded in true Waifs style in a make shift studio in the unfinished kitchen of Josh Cunningham’s rural retreat on the NSW South Coast across two weeks.
‘Ironbark’ is a double album made for their incredibly loyal and loving fan base, for those who have been there from the start, and for those who have become fans of the band along the way.
From this Tuesday January 10, The Waifs will be giving away free download bonus songs each week until the official album release on March 3rd. ‘Ironbark’ will be available for pre-order at a very discounted price from their website from Thurs February 12 and from various retail outlets for the first 25 days of release as a gesture of thanks to fans. There will also be amazing ticket and album bundles for all headline concerts available so head to thewaifs.com for details.
You know all about The Waifs… meeting in Broome, West Australia, traveling around – that old tale has been told many times. So The Waifs want to hear your stories.
If their music has played a significant part in any event or time in your life they’d love to hear about it.
Send them an email to; waifsstories@jarrahrecords.com AND post them on their Facebook. The Waifs would like to share some of your stories onstage, play some songs and weave it all together and celebrate.
You can hear the first downloadable bonus song here: “Song That Soothes”
https://soundcloud.com/the-waifs-music/song-that-soothes
Tickets on sale 9am Friday Jan 13th, from thewaifs.com.
‘Ironbark’ is instore and online March 3rd.
Jarrah Records, Rhythms & The Music Present
AN EVENING WITH THE WAIFS 25th ANNIVERSARY AUSTRALIAN TOUR
With Special Guests
March 2 Perth Concert Hall, Perth
March 4 3 Oceans Winery, Margaret River
March 5 Castelli Winery, Denmark
March 6 Quindanning Hotel, Quindanning
March 9 Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
March 11 Womadelaide, Adelaide
March 12 Port Fairy Folk Festival, Port Fairy
March 13 Port Fairy Folk Festival, Port Fairy
March 14 Eastbank Centre, Shepparton
March 15 Albury Arts Centre, Albury
March 16 Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra
March 18 Blue Mountains Folk Festival, Katoomba
March 19 Anitas Theatre, Thirroul
March 25 The Odeon Theatre, Hobart
March 26 The Don Centre, Devonport
March 28 The Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo
March 30 Hamer Hall, Melbourne
April 1 Enmore Theatre, Sydney
April 4 Bangalow Hall, Bangalow
April 6 The Tivoli Theatre, Brisbane
April 8 NightQuarter, Gold Coast
April 9 Munro Martin Parklands, Cairns
April 12 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
April 13 Darwin Entertainment Centre, Darwin
April 15 The Roebuck Bay Hotel, Broome
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