RANDY NEWMAN ANNOUNCES ‘AN EVENING WITH RANDY NEWMAN’ IN SUPPORT OF ACCLAIMED DARK MATTER ALBUM

Shane | 3 September 2019 | Reply

RANDY NEWMAN ANNOUNCES ‘AN EVENING WITH RANDY NEWMAN’ IN SUPPORT OF ACCLAIMED DARK MATTER ALBUM

“Few songwriters can cut to the quick the way Newman does. He remains a great American songbook unto himself.” – Guardian

“In Newman’s best music he leaves you wondering where you stand, what you think, what you believe, how the world works.” – Pitchfork

“Newman has a knack for writing songs that are so attuned to what’s going on in the U.S. that they become predictive, articulating uncomfortable thoughts that are in the air but had theretofore gone unarticulated.” – Vanity Fair

Randy Newman has announced a series of international ‘An Evening With Randy Newman’ tour dates for 2020, beginning with Australia and New Zealand in January and February (his first tour of Australia since 2011, and his first ever tour of New Zealand). The full itinerary is listed below. Tickets go on sale on August 26, and further information can be found at randynewman.com. Further dates, in Europe in Spring 2020, will be announced shortly. These tour dates follow the release of Dark Matter, Newman’s first album of new material in a decade, which includes the Grammy-winning song ‘Putin’.

Nonesuch Records released Dark Matter, the follow-up to 2008’s best-selling Harps and Angels, in August 2017 to widespread critical acclaim. ‘A collection of mordant musical entertainments that moves deftly from the sharply political to the deeply personal, from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Putin to songs of love and death that glide gracefully and cut deep,’ wrote Mojo, which rated it one of the best albums of the year, as did Uncut magazine, who proclaimed ‘Each satirical sketch is lavishly arranged like a miniature film score, with multiple characters, shifting points of view and dramatic lurches in musical style.’ In the words of the Daily Telegraph, ‘Newman has made an album that is a match for anything in his canon. Both topical and timeless.’

Newman began recording in 1968 with a self-titled album. Throughout the 1970s, he released several other acclaimed albums such as 12 Songs, Sail Away, and Good Old Boys. He began composing and scoring for films in the 1980s, and his work includes all four Toy Story pictures, A Bug’s Life, Cars and Cars 3. In addition to Dark Matter, most recently Nonesuch released The Randy Newman Songbook, comprising solo recordings of songs from throughout Newman’s five-decade career. His many honours include seven Grammys, three Emmys, and two Academy Awards, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 – the same year he was given an Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award. Newman also was presented with a PEN New England Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award in 2014. In 2018 he collaborated with Rex Orange County on his version of Newman’s ‘You’ve Got A Friend In Me’, and in 2019, in addition to Toy Story 4, he collaborated with Chance The Rapper on ‘5 Year Plan’ for the album The Big Day.

A NIGHT WITH RANDY NEWMAN | 2020 TOUR DATES

PERTH Thursday 30 January – Riverside Theatre (All Ages)
MELBOURNE Sunday 2 February – Hamer Hall (All Ages)
SYDNEY Tuesday 4 February – State Theatre (All Ages)
BRISBANE Friday 7 February – Concert Hall QPAC (All Ages)
AUCKLAND Sunday 9 February – Civic Theatre (All Ages)
WELLINGTON Tuesday 11 February – The Opera House (All Ages)
CHRISTCHURCH Thursday 13 February – Isaac Theatre Royal (All Ages)