Shihad frontman Jon Toogood will return to Australia this November for a run of shows around the country to celebrate his first solo record, Last Of The Lonely Gods due to be released on 11 October via Warner Music Australia.
Alongside the news comes his soulful new single Gravity. The second offering from the album sees Jon return to his acoustic guitar, contemplating the crossroad in life – deliberating between where you thought you’d end up versus where you are.
“Losing both parents lead me to thinking a lot about my own mortality which in turn lead to me writing this tune,” Jon says of the new single.
“I’d been hiding away from the world after my mum passed away and was trying to work out what I wanted my life to look like going forward. I wrote the tune to help me work some of that out,” he said.
As the founding frontman of legendary, multi-platinum NZ rock band Shihad and supergroup The Adults, Toogood has spent 30 years at the forefront of Aoteara’s music scene, writing, singing, performing, mentoring, managing, directing, producing, DJ-ing, programming and promoting – all with enormous energy and humanity.
Toogood’s next chapter reveals him at his most up close and personal. Last Of The Lonely Gods is a rousing and optimistic collection of songs that sees him back on the acoustic guitar, making meaning out of a series of challenges he has faced in the last few years.
Tickets for his intimate Australian tour are on sale Monday July 29 via jontoogood.com.
JON TOOGOOD – LAST OF THE LONELY GODS AUSTRALIA 2024
TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY 29 JULY AT JONTOOGOOD.COM
Thursday 14 November
Mo’s Desert House Club, Bundjalung Nation / Gold Coast
Friday 15 November
Tomcat, Meeanjin / Brisbane
Saturday 16 November
Northcote Social Club, Naarm / Melbourne
Sunday 17 November
Waywards, Eroa / Sydney
