Music Feeds Podcast Episode #100: Bluejuice

The news that Bluejuice, one of Australia’s most beloved and irreverent homegrown bands, would be breaking up at the end of 2014 came as a shock to many Aussie music lovers. To help us cope a little better, Music Feeds caught up with singer Stavros Yiannoukas and got the inside story.

“Our manager had a conversation with us months ago, he’d got an email from Grinspoon’s manager saying their band was breaking up. And he thought it was a weird way to finish-up when you’ve been around for so long. So he thought it would be better for us to… go out on a high,” Stav explains.

“I had mentioned us finishing up after Act Your Age and the album company… people weren’t really ready for that,” Stavros reveals. “But no, [breaking up] hadn’t really been discussed. I don’t know many bands that actually talk about it along the way. We’re just not that well-planned,” he adds.

We also discuss the band’s upcoming retrospective album — the aptly titled Retrospectable out this September — their farewell tour, going platinum without knowing it, and what the members of Bluejuice will be doing after the farewell tour comes to its inevitable and unfortunate end.

Check out the entire Music Feeds Podcast series right here!

Listen: Music Feeds Podcast Episode #100 – Bluejuice (Stavros Yiannoukas)

http://youtu.be/11ER3FEcnEU

Bluejuice Retrospectable Farewell Tour Dates

Wednesday, 24th September 2014

Uni Bar, Adelaide

Tickets: OzTickets

Wednesday, 1st October 2014

Sol Bar Maroochydore

Tickets: OzTickets

Wednesday, 8th October 2014

Federation University, Gippsland Campus

Tickets: OzTickets / MUGSU

Thursday, 9th October 2014

The Hi-Fi, Melbourne

Tickets: OzTickets

Sunday, 26th October 2014

Metro Theatre, Sydney

Tickets: Ticketek

Thursday, 6th November 2014

Movidas, Mackay

Tickets: OzTickets

Friday, 7th November 2014

The Venue, Townsville

Tickets: Ticketek

Saturday, 8th November 2014

The Jack, Cairns

Tickets: OzTickets

Thursday, 25th September 2014SOLD OUT

Uni Bar, Adelaide

Friday, 26th September 2014

Capitol, Perth

Tickets: Via OzTickets

Saturday, 27th September 2014

Red Earth Arts Festival, Karratha

Tickets: Via REAF

Thursday, 2nd October 2014

Hi-Fi, Brisbane

Tickets: Via OzTickets

Friday, 3rd October 2014

Coolangatta Hotel, Coolangatta

Tickets: Via OzTickets

Saturday, 4th October 2014

Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay

Tickets: Via OzTickets

Friday, 10th October 2014SOLD OUT

Hi-Fi, Melbourne

Saturday, 11th October 2014

Hi-Fi, Melbourne (Under 18’s only Matinee show 12-3pm)

Tickets: Via OzTickets

Saturday, 11th October 2014

Village Green Hotel, Mulgrave

Tickets: Via Village Green Hotel and Ticketmaster

Sunday, 12th October 2014

Barwon Club, Geelong

Tickets: Via OzTickets

Friday, 17th October 2014

Waves, Wollongong

Tickets: Via MoshTickets

Saturday, 18th October 2014

ANU Bar, Canberra

Tickets: Via Ticketek

Thursday, 23rd October 2014

Bar On The Hill, Newcastle

Tickets: Via Big Tickets

Friday, 24th October 2014SOLD OUT

Metro Theatre, Sydney (Lic / All Ages)

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