The Smith Street Band will finish up their second run of shows this year when they come to the Barwon Club on Saturday, July 29.
The band are nearing the end of a regional follow-up tour of their latest album, Life After Football, which was named Triple J’s Feature Album of the Week in December last year.
The band’s lead singer and guitarist Wil Wagner said the final show of the tour would be “a bit of a party night”.
“I love playing in Geelong, the Barwon Club is a really fun venue and everyone who works there and the people who run it are legends,” he said.
“I’m always a bit bummed when a tour ends. (As) it’s the last night of the tour we’ll kick things up a little bit more than we normally do.”
Wagner said while the band’s previous album Don’t Waste Your Anger was “quite slow”, Life After Football was a return to the live, rocking feel the band is well known for.
“For most of the performances the band, at least, is live, with me singing over the top later,” he said.
“We really tried to make this feel like a straight up and down rock record. I wrote (Life After Football and Don’t Waste Your Anger) at the same time, they’re almost like two halves of the same project.
“All the slower, more sad songs went on Don’t Waste Your Anger, but with this record these are all the songs that we want to play live; the energetic, more rocking songs that we didn’t feel there was any point releasing when we couldn’t tour.
“Now we can get all around the country, there’s a crowd and people are excited, it feels good again. It’s really fun.”
