Radio Free Alice are currently amid their debut UK headline tour, featuring six sold out
headline shows in London, they performed Reading and Leeds
Festival 2025, extensive headline dates just announced across Europe and North
America including two sold out headline shows in NYC (the first selling out in 24 hours)
and a slot at Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, GA this September alongside Lucy Dacus,
IDLES, Pixies and more, Naarm/Melbourne-based new wave/post-punk band Radio
Free Alice – who were featured in this year’s NME 100, Monster Children’s Bright Young
Things and were nominated for Best Independent Punk Album or EP at the AIR
Awards – they announced their anticipated new EP Empty Words Aug 20, their third EP
in three years, and share the new single ‘Toyota Camry’, which had its global premiere
on BBC 6 Music, along with its video directed by Finn Robilliard.
Along with its title-track released in March which was written and recorded during some
downtime between shows while Radio Free Alice were in London last year, Empty
Words features two unreleased songs ‘Regret’ and ‘Chinese Restaurant’ produced by
Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Perfume Genius, Soccer Mommy) and ‘Empty Words’
produced by Ewan Pearson (M83, Stella Donnelly, Depeche Mode), both recorded in
Bristol and London, and together form a bold step in Radio Free Alice’s wildly consistent
output.
Off the back of their 2nd EP Polyester (2024) – which has hit over 2.5 million streams
across its four tracks on Spotify alone since its release in August with support and
acclaim from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music (New Music Fix), triple j, FBi Radio, Triple R,
Clash, the cover of DORK (UK), Complex, Pigeons & Planes, NME, Rolling Stone, The
Line Of Best Fit and many, many others – Radio Free Alice toured extensively
throughout the UK and Europe, joined the The Killers on tour across so-called-Australia,
and co-headlined a national run with Big Special. Throughout it all, plus the acclaim on
their singles ‘2010’ and ‘Johnny’, the highest kudos might have come from The Brian
Jonestown Massacre’s leader Anton Newcombe, who told the band they were “not shit”
after accidentally catching one of their headline shows on Gadigal Land in Sydney.
Formed in Gadigal Land/Sydney in 2020 before making the move to Naarm/Melbourne,
Radio Free Alice – Noah Learmonth (he/him; vocals, guitar), Jules Paradiso (he/him;
guitar), Michael Phillips (he/him; bass, saxophone), and Lochie Dowd (he/him; drums)
– continue to make their mark with their wildly consistent output and vital live
performances. Their debut self-titled EP (2023) was nominated for Best Independent
Punk Album or EP at the AIR Awards and quickly followed up with Polyester (2024).
They’ve played Lost Paradise, Splendour In The Grass, Dot To Dot, Live At Leeds,
London Calling Amsterdam, The Great Escape, Rock For People Budapest, Wide
Awake, Mood Swings, Party In The Paddock, Loch Hart, SXSW Sydney and Bigsound,
supported Royel Otis and Sorry, and made their debut in the US this year.
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