The Rubens, Client Liaison, Bad Dreems & Thelma Plum have all been announced for The Torquay Hotel
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The Rubens, Client Liaison, Bad Dreems & Thelma Plum have all been announced for The Torquay Hotel

While the weather is cooling down, we can’t say the same thing about the acts coming into the Torquay Hotel.

The past few months we’ve seen a slew of high calibre acts take over the bandroom on the coast – especially with the recent Torquay Hotel Summer Series, which saw the iconic regional music venue host a specially curated season of incredible Australian music.

From the likes of Melbourne’s Slowly Slowly, Press Club, Montaigne, Something for Kate frontman Paul Dempsey, acoustic indie-folk duo The Dreggs and Aussie legends Spiderbait, to Sydney’s raw-power Ruby Fields, The Beautiful Girls, Californian act The Growlers and the mighty The Amity Affliction, the hotel just keeps delivering the goods!

And it doesn’t look like it will be slowing down anytime soon with a bunch of juicy gigs just announced for the upcoming months.

Coming up at the end of March, Brisbane duo Hollow Coves (Ryan Henderson and Matt Carins) will be bringing their indie-folk vibes to the hotel. Their 2017 debut EP Wanderlust features the track ‘The Woods’, which has racked up more than forty million Spotify streams. Wanting to continue the spirit of the EP, the pair set to work on a full-length album which resulted is 2019’s Moments. Good vibes will be aplenty.

Following on from legendary performances at Falls Festival this summer and two places in the triple j hottest 100 (‘Maybe You Know’ #61 and ‘Teach Me About Dying’ #50), Holy Holy have will make their way to the hotel as part of their regional Australia tour this April. It’s been a landmark six months for the band since the August release of their third critically acclaimed album My Own Pool of Light, which landed the coveted triple j feature album, was voted #5 in the best albums of 2019 by triple j listeners and received nominations for triple j album of the year and ‘Best Rock Album’ at the 2019 ARIA Awards. They also put on one hell of a live show so make sure you mark Friday April 3 in your diaries, stat.

Australia’s favourite electric-dance act Client Liaison are then back in a big way at Torquay Hotel for Easter Sunday. From their very own fashion label, self-titled festival and a string of much-loved, radio friendly, dance pop via the 90’s anthems, Client Liaison have melded kitsch and substance to become one of the country’s most powerful live electro outfits, generating a string of high rotation singles in the process to promise a multisensory experience which feeds any listener’s appetite. International in flavour, cosmopolitan in style, Client Liaison’s Harvey Miller and Monte Morgan will have you partying all night long.

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The month of May will then see Bad//Dreems bring their Regional Tour to the coast. Following the release of their album ‘Doomsday Ballet’ in 2019 that was backed with Australian and UK tours as well as Falls Festival shows across the holiday season, Bad//Dreems are now back on the road again and will be bringing the heat! They will hit up the stage on Friday May 22.

Aussie music angel Thelma Plum is keeping the momentum going for both the hotel, and herself, after a colossal 2019 with the announcement of a huge nationwide tour! The Homecoming Queen tour comes off the back of her debut album Better In Blak, which was nominated for ‘Album Of The Year’ at last year’s ARIA Awards and came in at a healthy #3 on triple j’s album poll. On top of that, she also did very well in triple j’s 2019 Hottest 100, with ‘Not Angry Anymore’ at #78, ‘Homecoming Queen’ at #65 and ‘Better In Blak’ at #9, making her the highest ranking First Nations artist ever. HUGE. She will hit up the hotel on Saturday June 20.

Finally to round out the recent announcements, The Rubens have announced their biggest Australian tour yet, set to take them around the country between May and July. Clocking a whopping 27 dates in total, the tour will see The Rubens hitting metro cities for the first time since their LO LA RU album shows in 2018, and lucky for us, the tour includes a stop at the Torquay Hotel. The shows come on the back of their recent single ‘Live in Life’, released last year. 2019 proved to be a big year for the Aussie five-piece, who spent a huge chunk of the last 12 months touring through North America, the UK and Europe. Catch them on Friday June 26.

Phew, how’s that for your Thursday!? We love you, Torquay Hotel.

Check out their list of gigs here and get onto buying your tix!

Rubens photo by Giulia McGauran