Masterfully delicate, Follow The Sun is the essence of Xavier Rudd’s spiritual connection to this world: his humble understanding that everything was here before us and will remain long after we are gone, and that every day is a new gift to cherish and to respect.
Follow The Sun is both Xavier Rudd’s highest charting radio single and highest selling single to date throughout his seven-album career. The track is taken from the album Spirit Bird which celebrated a #2 ARIA debut for it’s June 2012 release.
As a song-writer, Xavier Rudd has always been able to place complex ideas into heartfelt words with a universal simplicity. Having covered vast musical ground with his previous albums, Follow The Sun is the familiar sound of Rudd’s earlier work as an ambidextrous solo artist. His voice, his guitar and his message; carried along with gentle rhythms and musical textures.
Beautifully organic and understated, Rudd’s delivery of Follow The Sun is a reiteration of the song’s theme that no matter what our religion or our blood lines are in this world, taking a moment or a breath, to respect and acknowledge the flow of energy around us, is vital nourishment for our own souls.
Follow The Sun invites us to leave our own distractions – the congestion of thoughts that keep us locked in our minds every waking minute – and to not let each day pass us by. To take notice and be thankful of the beauty of our great mother and our connection to her. That the most overlooked of things – each day’s sun and moon, the winds and the tides, the creatures that fill our skies and oceans... that these things are the truth. They are conduits of an ever-flowing energy that society teaches us as humans to disconnect from, when in fact they are the things we need to be connected to the most.
After playing to sell out crowds across Europe and the UK, Xavier Rudd brings his Spirit Bird tour to Australia for 30 shows in cities and regional centres. The August / September shows make up his most extensive Australian tour yet.
See below for tour dates.
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SPIRIT BIRD AUSTRALIAN TOUR
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Wednesday 22 August - Brothers Leagues Club, Cairns QLD
Thursday 23 August - The Venue, Townsville QLD
Friday 24 August - Magnums, Airlie Beach QLD
Saturday 25 August – Mackay ECC, Mackay QLD NEW SHOW
Sunday 26 August – Pilbeam Theatre, Rockhampton QLD
Tuesday 28 August - Moncreif Theatre, Bundaberg QLD
Wednesday 29 August - Rumours, Toowoomba QLD
Thursday 30 August - Tivoli, Brisbane QLD
Friday 31 August - Lake Kawana Community Centre, Sunshine Coast QLD
Saturday 1 September - Coolangatta Hotel, Gold Coast QLD
Sunday 2 September – YAC Amphitheatre, Byron Bay NSW
Tuesday 4 September - Tamworth Town Hall, Tamworth NSW
Wednesday 5 September - Dubbo RSL, Dubbo NSW
Thursday 6 September - Civic Theatre, Newcastle NSW
Friday 7 September - Waves Hotel, Wollongong NSW
Saturday 8 September - Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW Sunday 9 September - Playhouse Theatre, Canberra ACT
Thursday 13 September - The Palace Theatre, Melbourne VIC
Friday 14 September - Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully VIC SOLD OUT
Saturday 15 September - Pier Hotel, Frankston VIC
Sunday 16 September - Costa Hall, Geelong VIC
Wednesday 19 September - Kay Street Saloon, Traralgon VIC
Friday 21 September - Mt Gambier Gaol, Mt Gambier SA
Saturday 22 September - Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide SA
Tuesday 25 September – Goldfields Arts Centre, Kalgoorlie WA
Wednesday 26 September - Esperance Civic Centre, Esperance WA
Friday 28 September - Albany Entertainment Centre, Albany WA
Saturday 29 September - Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA
Sunday 30 September – Caves House, Yallingup WA SOLD OUT
Monday 1 October – Caves House, Yallingup WA NEW SHOW
(Doors at 1pm. Public Holiday)