Sarah Blasko extends I Just Need to Conquer This Mountain album tour into 2025
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12.12.2024

Sarah Blasko extends I Just Need to Conquer This Mountain album tour into 2025

Image credit: Mclean Stephenson
Words by Staff Writer

The peak of Sarah Blasko's touring mountain keeps getting higher and higher.

On the eve of her final weekend of the I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain album shows, revered 3x Platinum and 3x ARIA Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician and producer Sarah Blasko has given fans the gift of touring. Extending her current tour, Blasko adds 25 dates to the run across February and April of 2025.

The tour sees Blasko head across NSW, VIC, QLD, ACT and TAS, including her first regional dates since 2017 in addition to already-announced shows at Bundanon, Queenscliff Town Hall, and Her Majesty’s Theatre (Wadawurrung/Ballarat).

Sarah Blasko – I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain Album Tour

  • Thur 12 Dec – The Gov – Kaurna/Adelaide, SA
  • Fri 13 Dec – Freo Social – Boorloo/Perth, WA
  • Sat 1 Feb – Canberra Theatre – Ngunnawal Country/Canberra, ACT
  • Fri 7 Feb – Milton Theatre – Yuin Country/Milton, NSW
  • Sat 8 Feb – Bundanon Art Museum – Dharawal/Bundanon, NSW
  • Fri 14 Feb – Burrinja – Wurundjeri Land/Upwey, VIC
  • Sat 15 Feb – Queenscliff Town Hall – Wathaurong/Queenscliff, VIC
  • Fri 21 Feb – Jetty Memorial Theatre – Gumbaynggirr/Coffs Harbour, NSW
  • Sat 22 Feb – Brunswick Picture House – Bundjalung/Brunswick Heads, NSW
  • Sun 23 Feb – Miami Marketta – Bundjalung and Yugambeh/Gold Coast, QLD
  • Fri 28 Feb – Birregurra Hall – Birregurra, VIC
  • Sat 1 Mar – The Wedge – Wayput/Sale, VIC
  • Sun 2 Mar – Frankston Arts Centre – Boon Wurrung/Frankston, VIC
  • Sat 8 Mar – Tanks Arts Centre – Yidinji Country/Cairns, QLD
  • Wed 12 Mar – Avoca Theatre – Bulbararong/Avoca, NSW
  • Thur 13 Mar – Glasshouse Theatre – Birpai Country/Port Macquarie, NSW
  • Sat 15 Mar – Blue Mountains Folk Festival – Ngurra Country/Blue Mountains, NSW
  • Fri 21 Mar – Echuca Paramount – Yorta Yorta/Echuca, VIC
  • Sat 22 Mar – Her Majesty’s Theatre – Wadawurrung/Ballarat, VIC
  • Sun 23 Mar – The Lighthouse – Gunditjmara Country/Warrnambool, VIC
  • Fri 28 Mar – The Memo – Wurrundjeri Land/Healesville, VIC
  • Sat 29 Mar – Meeniyan Town Hall – Meeniyan, VIC
  • Sun 30 Mar – Archies Creek Hotel – Gunditjmara Country/Archies Creek, VIC
  • Fri 4 Apr – Keystone 1889 – Wiradjuri Country/Bathurst, NSW
  • Sat 5 Apr – Newcastle Civic Theatre – Awabakal and Worimi Country/Newcastle, NSW
  • Sat 19 Apr – Odeon Theatre – nipaluna/Hobart, TAS
  • Sun 20 Apr – Du Cane – pulingina/Launceston, TAS

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On the Victorian front, Sarah Blasko celebrates her seventh solo album I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain in Upwey, Queenscliff, Birregurra, Sale, Frankston, Echuca, Ballarat, Warrnambool, Healesville, Meeniyan and Archies Creek across historic and iconic venues.

Sarah Blasko has a rich discography of honest, introspective and intense songs but I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain sees Blasko get her most personal. It is an album of late night reflections on goodbyes, grief, new beginnings, and an important friendship that underpinned Sarah Blasko’s childhood, and finds one of Australia’s most revered songwriters more reflective and more personal than ever before. It was recorded at Rancom Street Studios in Eora/Sydney with engineer Brent Clark, produced by Sarah Blasko and mixed by Kenny Gilmore (Weyes Blood, Julia Holter, Ariel Pink), and marked a new approach to writing and recording from that of her earlier records.

Upon its release I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain zoomed to #6 on the ARIA Australian Album Chart and was crowned Double J Feature Album. It was released in conjunction with a video suite that aired in full on rage as part of her Guest Program last month. A collection of technicolour dreamscapes made by SPOD, he used both analogue and digital techniques to manipulate footage that Sarah Blasko filmed alongside photographer Wilk, and lighting designer Bazz Barrett, in a few fun days at the Richard Wherrett Studio on Gadigal Land in Sydney last year.

The songs and visuals are transformative and intoxicating, sending listeners into a spin. They will be highlighted live during her 25-date tour.

Tickets to witness Sarah Blasko live on the I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain tour go on sale 9am (local) Friday 13 Dec from sarahblasko.com