Critical favourites King Curly return with the launch of their third album Doomsday Piano on August 5. 

With their previous two albums getting rave reviews both in Australia and the UK, King Curly have taken their unique sound to a new level, using hand-wrought instruments including a fence paling banjo with a feral goat-skin head and percussion made from hub caps, tea chests and petrol cans to produce an innovative, yet instantly likeable sound. 

The album’s first single ‘I’m Coming Back (In A Revenge Song)’ has already turned heads with its brilliant animation capturing the minds of both music and video fans and hits radio this week. 

Hailing from the Blue Mountains in NSW, King Curly is the invention of Steve Appel, one of the best-kept secrets of Australian music. For six years, his slowly evolving, chiefly acoustic ensemble has been quietly capturing the hearts of some of biggest names in the business, from the East Coast Blues & Roots Festival to the Port Fairy Folk Festival to Perth’s International Festival of the Arts and beyond.

A slow-burning underground following blew up with their second album of 2004, Lullaby (Vitamin). Together with its predecessor, Family Man (Hot Records), it documented a fruitful collaboration with J. Walker of Machine Translations. Today Steve’s songs can be heard on recordings by Vika and Linda Bull, Jimmy Little, and strewn through the soundtrack of the Channel 7 series, Last ManStanding.

Large-scale Australian tours at the invitation of Paul Kelly and the Cat Empire have helped bring King Curly to the attention of broader audiences, both in Australia and in Europe, which the band toured for the first time in 2004 to unanimous acclaim.

King Curly tours around Australia in August & September 
Doomsday Piano is out August 5 through Vitamin Records

August 17: East Brunswick Club, Melbourne Vic
August 18: Old Drouin Butter Factory, Drouin Vic
August 19: The Palais, Hepburn Springs Vic
August 20: Harba Bar / Fisheries, Mornington Vic
August 24: Armidale Club, Armidale NSW
August 25: Federal Hotel, Bellingen NSW
August 26: Blue Poles, Byabarra NSW
August 30: The Troubador, Brisbane Qld
September 1: Joe’s Waterhole, Eumundi Qld
September 2: Jade Monkey, Adelaide SA
September 3: Tanunda Club, Barossa Valley SA
September 7: The Vanguard, Sydney NSW
September 8: The Merry Muse, Canberra ACT
September 9: The Clarendon, Katoomba, NSW