Hey Melburnians, have you checked in on the melancholic sapphic in your life? You might need to, because Girl in Red is headed to our city, and this news probably means the aforementioned sapphic is losing their mind right about now. That’s right, after selling out her run of headline dates last year, Girl in Red is heading back Down Under in 2024 courtesy of Secret Sounds. In fact, she’ll be playing some of her biggest Australian shows yet this July.
With her fresh album in tow, the Doing it Again Tour will bless Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena on Wednesday, July 17. Aside from her Melbourne show, Girl in Red will also play in Perth, Sydney and Brisbane (as well as a headline set at Adelaide's Spin Off Festival). Support in Melbourne will be from alt-pop three-piece Telenova.
Since the release of her charming debut single ‘I wanna be your girlfriend’ Norwegian alt-pop artist, songwriter and record producer Marie Ulven (aka Girl in Red) has been gaining legions of fans with her biting songs about navigating the world as a young queer woman. Her honest lyrics and intimate production has thrilled listeners around the world, making the singer-songwriter one of the streaming era’s biggest grass-roots success stories.
Ulven’s successes have taken her a long way from the bedroom where she made her earliest records. She's played popular festivals such as Oya and Glastonbury and toured with pop icons like Conan Gray, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift on the North American leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour. This is your chance to see the artist perform live as she broadens her sonic horizons during an era that she has described as “more ambitious, and more exciting, and more idea-driven” than before.
Girl in Red’s 2023 Australian headline dates sold out well in advance, so you’ll want to jump on these tickets quickly – get yours over here.
Now if you’ll excuse us, we’ll just be busy singing “They’re so pretty it hurts, I’m not talking about boys I’m talking about girls…” to no end.
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