Blonde Redhead announce first Australian shows in 13 years

Legendary US dream-pop band Blonde Redhead have announced their first Australian tour in over 13 years.

The group, comprised of Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace, will play The Rechabite on Tuesday, June 18.

Blonde Redhead will arrive with new material from their first album in almost a decade—Sit Down for Dinner—a reflective record born from challenging times.

When Kazu Makino encountered this passage from Didion’s memoir of grief, The Year of Magical Thinking, in the early pandemic months, Makino was thinking of her own parents far away in Japan and the then-lost ritual of congregating for dinner with family. She narrated these feelings on a pair of songs that helped title Blonde Redhead’s tenth full-length. “It’s sort of about death, but the music is so alive and groovy,” Makino said.

The title Sit Down for Dinner has a separate resonance for the Italian members of Blonde Redhead, the Milan-born twin brothers Amedeo Pace (singer and multi-instrumentalist) and Simone Pace (drummer). “Culturally, dinner is important to us,” Simone says of the non-negotiable family ritual. “It’s a moment for us to sit down and have time with each other. We grew up that way. I know a lot of people eat and run, eat in front of their TV, or don’t care about it too much—and that’s OK—but we really do.”

Blonde Redhead play The Rechabite on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. For more info and to buy tickets, head to moshtix.com.au