Portugal. The Man are heading back to Australia this October, with the Alaskan rock outfit locking in headline shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane as part of The Denali Tour.
The run will bring together material from across the band’s catalogue alongside songs from their latest album, SHISH, giving Australian audiences a look at where Portugal. The Man find themselves more than two decades into a career that has rarely stayed in one musical lane for very long.
Formed in Wasilla, Alaska, Portugal. The Man grew from the partnership between John Gourley and bassist Zach Carothers, who first began playing music together while at high school in 2001. The band spent years building an audience through relentless releases and touring, moving from their early independent records to Atlantic Records in 2010 and gradually pushing their psychedelic and experimental tendencies into increasingly expansive territory.
Then came ‘Feel It Still’. Released in 2017, the track escaped well beyond the band’s existing audience and became a global hit, eventually winning Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the Grammy Awards. For a group that had already spent more than a decade making records by that point, it was the sort of seemingly overnight success that had actually taken years to arrive.
Portugal. The Man have never been particularly interested in becoming simply the band responsible for that one enormous song, however. Their catalogue moves freely between psychedelic rock, indie, pop and electronics, with Gourley remaining at the centre of an ever-changing cast of musicians and ideas.
SHISH provides the latest chapter, and The Denali Tour now brings that new material to Australia alongside the songs that have accumulated across the band’s career.
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