Australian progressive stoner/heavy psych rockers Khan announce tour dates for their second European tour!
Photos by Lauren Marr
Melbourne, Australia based progressive stoner/heavy psych rockers Khan have announced tour dates for their second European tour starting this October. They will support their latest album, »Creatures«, out on February 22nd, 2023 via Full Contact Safari Records.
The band comments: “Here it is kids! Behold, the long awaited list of locations, dates and venues!!
We’ve been working really hard for the last 7 months to put this together and are very excited to finally share with you the full list of dates for our second European tour!
We know we’ve already announced the Australian dates and that most of them have already happened, but we wanted to include them because it looks way more impressive on a poster 🦸♂️ Plus we still have our final show of the Australian leg with Lucid Planet coming up 🥳
Please note, there were definitely other cities/countries that we really tried to book shows in but despite our best efforts approaching multiple promoters and venues, we were unable to get dates that worked with the rest of our tour.
Having said that, we do still have a few gaps in the tour schedule, so if you’re a promoter, venue booker or in a band and want to book us or add us to an existing show on one of our free dates, please send us a DM.”
Axl Entertainment & Full Contact Safari Records presents:
Oct 7 – Melbourne (AU) – Bergy Bandroom
Oct 19 – Jena (DE) – KuBa
Oct 21 – Antwerp (BE) – Desertfest Antwerp 2023
Oct 26 – Berlin (DE) – Urban Spree w/ Swan Valley Heights
Oct 27 – Ingolstadt (DE) – Fronte 79 Jugendkulturzentrum w/ Swan Valley Heights
Oct 28 – Frankfurt (DE) – The Cave w/ Swan Valley Heights
Oct 31 – Swansea (UK) – The Bunkhouse
Nov 1 – Exeter (UK) – Move Live
Nov 2 – Bristol (UK) – The Gryphon
Nov 4 – London (UK) – The Dev
Nov 5 – Manchester (UK) – Grand Central
Nov 7 – Lippstadt (DE) – Gaststätte Zum Güterbahnhof
Nov 8 – Odense (DK) – Frølageret
Nov 9 – Malmö (SE) – Plan B
Nov 10 – Stockholm (SE) – Truckighters Fuzz Festival #4 w/ Valley Of The Sun, Skraeckoedlan and more!
Nov 11 – Oslo (NO) – Revolver
Khan meld hazy psychedelia and heavy stoner riffs with a penchant for progressive rhythms and almost dirge-like, industrial-scale crescendos. The songs are lyrically evocative, exuding a sense of despondency and melancholy. Vocally, their songs waver from ethereal falsetto and hypnotic crooning to impassioned wailing punctuated by occasional guttural screams.
They first came into being in 2016, when three friends took up a joint residency on the outskirts of Melbourne. From there it wasn’t long before they released their »On Silent Space« EP, which was in essence a brief, alt-rock journey, tinged with psychedelic nuances, perhaps giving us a glimpse of things to come. Their debut album »Vale« followed in 2018. In contrast to »On Silent Space«, »Vale« was a far grander and more expansive project that permitted the band to explore many of the outer reaches of heavy psychedelia and progressive rock, which created waves that reverberated through the underground around the world. The ripples were felt by the organizers of Progfest who invited the band to perform at the 2019 festival in Melbourne alongside The Ocean (DE), Monuments (UK) and Skyharbor (IN).
In what promised to be a particularly big year, 2020 began with performances supporting Yawning Man (USA) and Beastwars (NZ) plus the announcement of Khan’s first international tour in Europe. While the pandemic crushed any hopes of the tour going ahead, it also paved the way for the unplanned release of their second album »Monsoons«, a fully instrumental odyssey delving into jam-based and post rock experimentation. The ongoing lockdowns also led to the unexpected opportunity to headline the virtual edition of Indian festival Strawberry Fields XXIV.
As soon as the world began to open up again in 2022, Khan quickly launched into their much-anticipated 22-date tour of Australia, Europe and the UK, which included performances at Esbjerg Fuzztival in Denmark with Truckfighters (SE) and Kuba Open Air in Germany with Villagers Of Ioannina City (GR). Khan’s third album »Creatures« was released in February 2023 through Full Contact Safari Records. It is their heaviest, darkest and most dynamic album to date. Their Australian tour will include performances at Spliffs N Riffs festival in Perth, Sun Burn festival in Canberra and Nowhere Festival in Brisbane.
Order »Creatures« here: fullcontactsafarirecords.com or khanofficial.bandcamp.com
Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Josh Bills at Vagabond Studios.
Artwork by Reza Afshar.
Khan is:
Josh Bills – Vocals/Guitar/Keys
Mitchell Kerr – Bass
Beau Heffernan – Drums
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well