Alex Gow And Dan Kelly Announce Co-Headline Tour

Together yet apart — Oh Mercy's Alex Gow and hard-working troubadour Dan Kelly have banded together to bring the Australian Dreamers tour to stages this May, with both solo artists taking the stage together on a co-headline tour.

Kelly has his most recent record, Leisure Panic, to showcase while Gow will hit the road with Oh Mercy's four albums, most recently When We Talk About Love, clasped in hand.

Both singer/songwriters speak praises of each others stylings — Kelly says, "I'm looking forward to touring with Alex. I like the cut of his jib. He's out there trying to sing up some romance and adventure as he boogies and croons his way through the confusion of being a modern kid, stuck on a listing blue ship in the eternal loneliness of deep space. And he plays it left-handed. This is a good sign."

Gow, on the other hand, feels confident in Kelly's survival skills post-apocalypse. "Dan Kelly is precisely the kind of person you wanna tour with. Mostly I wanna be near Dan in case those four horsemen take a trot. He's the kind of guy you could really turn to, post apocalypse. He'd stare into the abyss and teach it how to play guitar just like Mark Knopfler.

"In addition Dan and I have a lot in common. We like music, and we have hair that goes upward as our motor skills go downward. Furthermore I have always admired Dan's songwriting, guitar playing and singing. Dan writes romantic, surreal and bittersweet songs. Songs I love. He taught me to try and do the same."

The huge month-long tour — which Kelly says will see the duo "paying homage to some Australian heroes and friends who set us on our merry way with their songs and stories" — will start off in Canberra on 18 May, before heading to Wollongong, Sydney, Katoomba, Ballarat, Castlemaine, Thornbury, Hobart, Adelaide, Fremantle, Perth, Darwin, Brisbane, Toowomba, Miami, Byron Bay, Mornington, Oakleigh and Geelong on 18 June.