Cymande Announce First Ever Australian Headline Dates

October 25, 2023

Influential London funk and soul group Cymande have announced their first-ever Australian tour. The band – which rose to fame in the 1970s and went on to impact a generation of musicians throughout Britain and beyond – have been announced on the lineups for Golden Plains and Perth Festival, and will play a handful of headline dates as well.

The band have locked in three headline shows on the east coast: in Brisbane on Saturday, 2nd March, Sydney on Monday, 4th March, and Melbourne Tuesday, 5th March. The tour will conclude with their set at Golden Plains in Meredith on Sunday, 10th March. See the full list of dates and find the pre-sale link below.

Cymande: ‘Bra’

The group released their debut self-titled album in 1972, which contained some of their most enduring and impactful songs, including ‘Dove’, ‘Bra’, and ‘The Message’. While they didn’t find acclaim in Britain, their star rose across the Atlantic and they became the first British band to headline the Apollo Theatre in 1973.

Cymande split up in the mid-70s, but their discography was brought back to life by artists like De La Soul, Grandmaster Flash, The Fugees, and others who sampled their tracks. In the 2010s the band reunited, and have been touring sporadically ever since. The band released an album, A Simple Act Of Faith, in 2015.