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Human Musical Sensations Glass Animals Tour of Earth

26 & 27 November 2024

On the Forecourt

Contemporary Music

Gates: 6:00pm
MAY-A: 7:00pm
Glass Animals: 8:00pm
Timings are approximate and subject to change without notice

Grammy-nominated, Platinum-selling British band Glass Animals have announced their forthcoming Australian tour and will be sending heat waves across the Sydney Opera House Forecourt this November, with their beloved brand of alt-pop. Glass Animals will be joined by indie-pop rockstar MAY-A. Having topped triple j’s Hottest 100 in 2022 for her collaboration with Flume - just two years after Glass Animals claimed the title - MAY-A is known to ignite a stage.

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Glass Animals will send heat waves across the Forecourt

Grammy-nominated, Platinum-selling British band Glass Animals have announced their forthcoming Australian tour and will be sending heat waves across the Sydney Opera House Forecourt this November, with their beloved brand of alt-pop.

The announcement arrives ahead of the band’s highly anticipated fourth studio album, I Love You So F***ing Much. The album is the follow-up to 2020’s critically revered Gold ARIA Accredited Dreamland, which sold over 12M copies globally and gave life to “Heat Waves”, the record-breaking song that became the biggest international hit from a British band in almost 30 years and is now x19 Platinum ARIA Accredited.

The four-piece were also crowned triple j’s Hottest 100 winner, with “Heat Waves” topping the Australian singles chart for six consecutive weeks and #1 on the ARIA Top 100 Singles for the year of 2021. It has achieved over 44B global streams and become the first British band to achieve #1 in the Spotify global chart.

Earlier this year, Glass Animals announced a mammoth 44 date tour, taking the four-piece band across North America, Europe and UK, kicking off in the USA next month. But Glass Animals wanted super fans to hear the record for the first time live, and most recently embarked on a global pop-up tour, playing a surprise show at Sydney’s Liberty Hall – an immediate sell-out – alongside locations in Mexico, Indonesia and California for an intimate taster of the record to come.

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