Plini is bringing his biggest live production yet back home this August, with the Australian progressive guitar mastermind announcing a full national and New Zealand headline tour in support of his new album ‘An Unnameable Desire’.
After spending the past few months tearing through Europe on the album’s world tour, Sydney born guitarist, producer and composer Plini will hit Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland and Wellington, backed by a stacked lineup featuring UK math rock heavyweights Delta Sleep, Sydney alt-metal rising force Cenobia, and Australian newcomers Nightdive.
For fans of technical precision wrapped in something genuinely emotional, Plini’s live show has become almost untouchable territory over the past decade, whether he’s weaving jazz fusion into progressive metal or turning impossible fretwork into something strangely hypnotic, there’s a reason his name keeps getting thrown around alongside the genre’s elite.
Plini ‘An Unnameable Desire’ Australian Tour Dates
- Thursday, August 6th – The Tivoli, Brisbane
- Friday, August 7th – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
- Saturday, August 8th – Forum, Melbourne
- Monday, August 10th – Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide
- Wednesday, August 12th – Metropolis Fremantle, Perth
Tickets are on sale now here.
‘Excited to bring my biggest production around Australia and New Zealand in August,’ Plini shared (via press release). ‘Playing songs from the new album around Europe at the moment has already been insanely fun. And extra excited to have put together a bill of some of my favourite bands!’
The tour arrives off the back of ‘An Unnameable Desire’, a record that continues Plini’s habit of refusing to sit comfortably inside one genre, the album moves between cinematic atmosphere, intricate prog passages and bursts of controlled chaos without ever collapsing under its own ambition.
Plini ‘An Unnameable Desire’
Even Steve Vai famously called Plini’s debut ‘Handmade Cities’ ‘one of the finest, forward thinking’ modern instrumental records he’d ever heard, and Plini’s trajectory since then has only pushed further into world-class territory.
Support acts across the run make this lineup even heavier, Delta Sleep return to Australia armed with their latest album ‘Blue Garden’, while Cenobia’s masked alt-metal project continues building serious momentum online. Sydney outfit Nightdive round out the Australian dates after turning heads with their debut EP ‘In Quiet Rooms’.
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