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Xavier Rudd announces 33-date Australian tour

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Xavier Rudd will spend the winter visiting every corner of the country.

Xavier Rudd 's tenth album Jan Juc Moon will be out on Friday 25 March and for fans its release couldn't come soon enough. Almost four years on from his latest record Storm Boy , Rudd emerges with another collection of songs that interrogate the natural world and our place in it.

There was never any doubt that Rudd would be out on the road to bring his new record to home audiences, but few would have expected the singer-songwriter to traverse the country so darn comprehensively.

On his forthcoming tour, he'll play no fewer than 33 shows around the country, ensuring everyone from Karratha to St Kilda gets a chance to see him in action.

Rudd should be in fine form when the tour kicks off, as he'll be fresh from an international run that will see him play in 18 countries around the world.

Before he packs out theatres, clubs and arenas around the country, Rudd will also play a big Bluesfest slot on Saturday 16 April.

Here are all 33 dates for Xavier Rudd's forthcoming Australian tour. Tickets are on sale from midday this Friday.

Wednesday 25 May – Empire Theatre, Toowoomba Thursday 26 May – Miami Marketta, Gold Coast Friday 27 May – Nightquarter, Sunshine Coast Saturday 28 May – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane Tuesday 31 May – Brolga Theatre, Maryborough Wednesday 1 June – Great Western Arena, Rockhampton Thursday 2 June – MECC, Mackay Friday 3 June – James Cook University, Townsville Saturday 4 June – Munro Martin Parklands, Cairns Thursday 9 June – Saraton Theatre, Grafton Tuesday 14 June – Blue Mountains Theatre, Springwood Thursday 16 June – Enmore Theatre, Sydney Friday 17 June – Civic Theatre, Newcastle            Friday 24 June – Barossa Arts Centre, Tanunda Wednesday 29 June – Burnie Town Hall Thursday 30 June – Princess Theatre, Launceston Friday 1 July – Paranaple Arts Centre, Devonport Saturday 2 July – Odeon Theatre, Hobart Friday 8 July – West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul Saturday 9 July – Palais Theatre, Melbourne Tuesday 12 July – Albury Entertainment Centre Wednesday 13 July – Wangaratta Performing Arts & Convention Centre Friday 15 July    Frankston Arts Centre Saturday 16 July – Costa Hall, Geelong Sunday 17 July – Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo Tuesday 19 July – Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre Wednesday 20 July – Astor Theatre, Perth Thursday 21 July – Astor Theatre, Perth Friday 22 July – Queens Park Theatre, Geraldton Saturday 23 July – This Life Music Festival, Carnarvon Sunday 24 July – Federation Park, Exmouth Tuesday 26 July – Red Earth Arts Precinct, Karratha Wednesday 27 July – Red Earth Arts Precinct, Karratha

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Xavier Rudd Is Undertaking One of the Largest Tours of Any Aussie Artist in 2022

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Xavier Rudd has spent more than two decades as one of the country’s most beloved and most revered artists, but as he continues to add more dates to his current global tour, it’s clear he’s in the midst of one the largest tours of any Aussie artist this year.

It was only back in March that Rudd unleashed his tenth studio album,  Jan Juc Moon . His seventh consecutive album to place in the ARIA top ten, the record showcases the arresting quality of Rudd’s passion and musicianship, intertwining in a way that can only be described as magical.

“Weaving together organic sounds of nature and wildlife, themes of environmentalism and Indigenous history—and powerful compositions that sees him working with the likes of J-MILLA or the Slabb Brothers— Jan Juc Moon is one of Xavier Rudd ‘s most resonant albums to date,” wrote Rolling Stone  of the record back upon its release.

With the record out in the world now, the next logical step for Xavier Rudd was to hit the road to share with his adoring fans the breathtaking songs that make up his latest album. But, it’s not enough for Rudd to simply take his new work on the road with a run of headline dates in major cities (including Perth, Adelaide, Darwin, and Hobart, of course ), rather, he’s an artist who doesn’t do things by half measures, having announced a truly immense national tour.

Kicking off his run of dates back in late May, the extensive national trek sees Xavier Rudd making an absolutely mammoth 86 stops, visiting every state and territory in Australia across 38 dates as he traverses the expansive natural landscape that inspires his work. After wrapping up locally, Rudd will head overseas for his international tour taking in 18 countries across 48 dates with shows already sold out in the likes of Antwerp, Amsterdam and Belgium.

Joining him on his tour is First Nations duo Marlon x Rulla , whose acclaimed performance at the 2021 edition of WOMADelaide saw  Rolling Stone   note that, “the group not only cemented themselves as one of the most monumental names on the bill for the evening, but set themselves aside as a pair of artists that you not only should, but undoubtedly need, to pay attention to as their career continues to rise.”

Having already powered through a run of Queensland shows, Rudd is currently in the midst of his trek through New South Wales, with this week seeing him visit the likes of Sydney and Newcastle before dipping down to the nation’s capital for a show at the Canberra Theatre.

What’s most impressive though is the fact that Rudd’s 86-date run of shows makes this current Jan Juc Moon album tour one of the largest tours undertaken by an Australian artist in 2022, only being eclipsed by a handful of the country’s best, such as Amy Shark and her mammoth 114 show touring schedule . It underlines Rudd’s status as an iconic artist and performer.

His current tour is set to continue for another month-and-a-half as Rudd visit’s the entire left side of the country, so if you’re yet to take the chance to catch one of Australia’s most beloved and revered performers live, now is the chance, with tickets on sale via his official website .

Xavier Rudd – Jan Juc Moon Album Tour (Australian dates)

Supported by Marlon x Rulla

Thursday, June 16th Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW

Friday, June 17th Civic Theatre Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW

Saturday, June 18th Canberra Theatre, Canberra, ACT

Friday, June 24th Barossa Arts Centre, Tanunda, SA

Saturday, June 25th Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, SA

Thursday, June 30th Princess Theatre, Launceston, TAS

Friday, July 1st Paranaple Arts Centre, Devonport, TAS

Saturday, July 2nd Odeon Theatre, Hobart, TAS

Friday, July 8th West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, VIC

Saturday, July 9th Palais Theatre, St Kilda, VIC

Tuesday, July 12th Albury Entertainment Centre, Albury, NSW

Wednesday, July 13th Wangaratta Performing Arts & Convention Centre, Wangaratta, VIC

Friday, July 15th Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, VIC

Saturday, July 16th Costa Hall, Geelong, VIC

Sunday, July 17th Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, VIC

Tuesday, July 19th Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre, Bunbury, WA

Wednesday, July 20th Astor Theatre, Perth, WA

Thursday, July 21st Astor Theatre, Perth, WA

Friday, July 22nd Queens Park Theatre, Geraldton, WA

Saturday, July 23rd This Life Music Festival, Carnarvon, WA

Sunday, July 24th Federation Park, Exmouth, WA

Tuesday, July 26th Red Earth Arts Precinct, Karratha, WA

Wednesday, July 27th Red Earth Arts Precinct, Karratha, WA

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Head to NightQuarter on Friday May 27 to indulge in a night of delicious street eats, carnival games, roving entertainment and a headline performance from Xavier Rudd.

Xavier is touring the country to celebrate the release of his tenth studio album, Jan Juc Moon . The relaxed and percussive album speaks of our wide-open space and the incredible natural elements that shape it. Currently living on the Sunshine Coast, the Australian singer is renowned for his laid-back folky tunes that help listeners relax into the sweet acoustic sounds that act as a balm for the soul.

Inspired by the winds of change experienced over the last two years and his recent trip north to the Cape, Xavier’s show is bound to be the breath of fresh air you have been craving.

NightQuarter opens at 4:00 pm on Friday, with Xavier’s support artists Marlon x Rulla kicking off from 7:30 pm. The remaining tickets are limited, so be sure to  grab yours today  to avoid missing out.

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Xavier Rudd announces his 2022 Australian tour, following the release of his forthcoming 10th studio album ‘Jan Juc Moon’, out 25th March. • Marlon x Rulla announced as official national tour support

Xavier Rudd announces his 2022 Australian tour, in celebration of the release of his forthcoming 10th studio album ‘Jan Juc Moon’, out 25th March. The wind blows strong though Xavier Rudd's tenth album. It’s a recurring image that speaks of wide-open space and the awesome natural elements that shape it: a force far greater than us, but ours to harness if we take the time to learn, reflect and respect its ways. 

"It hit me last year when I started to write Stoney Creek," the Australian roots journeyman says of the album's first, exhilarating single: a rolling acoustic balm of a song that finds refuge in the simple blessings of rest, companionship and belonging in a world gone crazy.  

"We were on a trip north to the Cape and the wind was blowing too hard to take the tinnie out to the island… As I contemplated everything in my life and what was happening in the world there was literally a strong southeaster blowing, all the time. It felt like a wind of change, literally, in so many ways."  

The wide-open space he'd found himself in — the great COVID silence — was both beyond his control and curiously in-sync. The break accelerated a return to the solo mode of creation that first led the barefoot multi-instrumentalist on his phenomenal journey.

“Very excited to get out on the road and share this new record and live show that I’ve been working on. Australia first and then back out in the big wide world, the world needs music and I’m ready to share.”

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I first saw Xavier in Melbourne about ten years ago , l attend every concert he has in Melbourne , he brings tears to my eyes and my heart fills with love listening to his music l listen to him everyday , if the governments of the world could only really listen to his words the world perhaps could find peace , what an amazing soul , l sat at the Thornbury theatre listening to his music speaking to his parents who sat next to me the love for their amazing son was beautiful only wish there were more people in the world like him , hopefully one day his true words will help the beautiful Aboriginal people of this land , Thank you Xavier you are a wonderful soul

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A bit disappointing really. Xavier called the town we were in "Norah Point" when it's known as "Norah Head".

The concert was a bit too business-like and transactional without theme.

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In Transit: Notes from the Underground

Jun 06 2018.

Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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