Last Dinosaurs Announce ‘WELLNESS’ 10th Bday Aussie Tour

If the words ‘Apollo’ or ‘Wurl’ instantly transport you to a sun-drenched dancefloor somewhere between a festival tent and your sharehouse living room, you’re not alone – and you’re about to have a very good winter.

Last Dinosaurs have announced a 10th anniversary Australian tour celebrating their beloved sophomore album WELLNESS, with a run of East Coast shows locked in for June. To mark the milestone, the Brisbane indie faves are also dropping a freshly reworked version of the record titled WELLNXSS, out February 13 via Nettwerk.

LAST DINOSAURS – ‘APOLLO’

Originally released in 2015, WELLNESS marked a huge turning point for the band – even if it didn’t feel that way at the time. What started as a pressure-heavy follow-up to In A Million Years ultimately became the catalyst for the DIY, confidence-driven approach that’s defined Last Dinosaurs ever since.

Looking back now, guitarist Sean Caskey admits the album hits very differently with a decade of hindsight: “I used to look back on this album as a bit of a failure,” he admis, “but now I see it as the catalyst for the way we make music today.”

That period – uploading lo-fi demos to YouTube, recording things themselves, backing their instincts – ended up shaping the band’s future releases, including Yumeno Garden, and laying the groundwork for the globally adored, dreamy-yet-danceable sound they’ve spent the last decade perfecting.

And perfect it they have. Since emerging out of Brisbane’s indie boom of the early 2010s, Last Dinosaurs have gone on to rack up tens of millions of streams, play festivals like Lollapalooza, Corona Capital and All Things Go, and support the likes of Florence + The Machine, Foals and Foster The People – all while keeping that unmistakable euphoric core intact.

Now, WELLNESS is getting its victory lap.

The anniversary tour will see the band revisit the album in full flight, with support from Bad Suns, and you can absolutely expect those shimmering synths and jangly guitar lines to hit just as hard as they did ten years ago – if not harder.

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