Glass Animals Announce Intimate One-Off Australian Show

After teasing something to do with an event happening in Sydney yesterday, British band Glass Animals have announced a one-off intimate show taking place this week.

This Thursday, 9 May, the band will perform at Sydney’s Liberty Hall in an exclusive event. The Australian pop-up event follows the band’s previous events in California and Mexico City. Tickets to Glass Animals performing live in Sydney go on sale today at 10 am AEST via Live Nation and the band’s website.

Glass Animals’ pop-up show is in support of their forthcoming album, I Love You So F***ing Much, which will be released on Friday, 19 July. The album follows 2020’s Dreamland, the LP that spurred one of the biggest mainstay international singles on Australian charts, Heat Waves.

According to frontman Dave Bayley, I Love You So F***ing Much is a “look at all the twisted shapes and forms of love, good and bad.” Bayley also referred to the album as a “collection of existential love stories”.

The lead single, Creatures In Heaven, is out now. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.

Bayley said in a press release that the first single is all about living in the present: “Are you here in the moment? Be in the moment. It’s about a moment in time, be it a split second or a year or whatever, having the capacity to be enormously formative and life-changing.

“Even if it is over. Or if it doesn’t go as planned. Or if it dies too soon. It is still fucking beautiful. The love and care and the feeling in that moment lives forever. It never really dies. If that’s how you choose to see it.”

Glass Animals’ song, Heat Waves, has been an Aussie favourite since its release in June of 2020 - a fact cemented by the group’s position atop the Hottest 100 only a few months later. By April 2022, Heat Waves remained the biggest song in Australia.

Bayley told the Melbourne crowd upon performing Heat Waves in 2022, “Australia has always done things first. When things were the worst, this song brought people so much joy, and it feels so damn special to finally sing it live with you.” 

You can read The Music’s live review of Glass Animals at Melbourne’s John Cain Arena here.

GLASS ANIMALS

Thursday 9 May - Liberty Hall, Sydney