Olympia
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Event Description
Olympia - Leave Yourself Behind
After a run of intimate shows earlier this year launching the EP, Love for One, Olympia will be taking her acclaimed band on the road to showcase the whole catalogue - including brand new material from the upcoming full-length album.One of Australia’s most relentlessly original artists, Olympia has released two studio albums to international critical acclaim including Flamingo (2019) and Self Talk (2016), an album that was nominated for an ARIA award, shortlisted in the Australian Music Prize and selected as Triple J feature album. The last studio album, Flamingo received critical praise album as ‘pure force’. It soared as guitar-fronted art-rock, studded with the artists’ signature melodies leading Clash (UK) to describe the artist “in perfect control of her art”. ‘Flamingo’ scored huge international success including high radio circulation on Radio X (UK), BBC1 (UK), Flux FM (GR), Double J (AUS), and headline tours across Europe and the UK. Recent tours have included Anna Calvi, Julia Jacklin, Garbage and Fred Armisen drawing critical comparisons to Joey Santiago (Pixies) and David Bowie.