Celebrating 45 years as a band, Australian psychedelic dream pop legends THE CHURCH have added more dates to their North America “The Singles / 1980 – 2025 Tour” that will be coming to North America this Summer. Initially postponed in 2025, the tour was rescheduled and kicks off June 5 in Seattle before concluding in Denver on July 11.
The five week tour celebrates their career-spanning oeuvre of tracks including “The Unguarded Moment” (from 1980’s Of Skins and Heart), “Tantalized” (from 1986’s Heyday), “Ripple” (from 1992’s Priest=Aura), “C’est La Vie” (from 1992’s The Hypnogogue), “Metropolis” (from 1990’s Gold Afternoon Fix) and of course “Reptile” and “Under the Milky Way” (from 1988’s international breakthrough album Starfish).
Continuing to evolve and transform, The Church remain not only relevant but prolific as well. With a major return to form and a resurgence in popularity, they have been quite creatively busy as of late. Having released their first thematic album The Hypnogogue (2023) and its companion album Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars (2024), which tracks the loose dystopian narrative of aging rockstar trying to reclaim his faded glory through the use of a dream extractor, “The Hypnogogue,” the post-punk pioneers have been generating another upsurge in popularity.
Coupled with the release of their gorgeously textured new single “Sacred Echoes (Part Two)” from November 2025, they have been showered with some of the best reviews of their career, these two albums helped grow the band’s audience significantly with venues appropriately increasing in size and capacity. Bassist/vocalist/founder Steve Kilbey called the single “Bleak and yet beautiful ‘Sacred Echoes (Part Two)’ is unlike any previous Church song ever with its almost orchestral climaxes and its sombre mood. The lyrics and voice are the weariness at the point where hope and hopelessness merge. The music is by turns delicate and sparse turning into a churning monstrous racket. Intense, forlorn and exultant!”
SPIN named The Hypnogogue as one of the 2023’s best albums, noting that it “might be one of the most underrated and overlooked of the year, a gorgeous neo-psychedelia triumph, taking you on The Church’s signature alt-stargazing journey, though current and uncompromising.” The Arts STL noted that “there aren’t many artists 40 years and 26 albums into their career as creatively vibrant as The Church are. This isn’t just one of The Church’s best latter-day albums, it’s simply one of their best.”
Tour Dates:
Jun. 5 Seattle, WA The Showbox
Jun. 6 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
Jun. 7 Portland, OR McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
Jun. 9 San Francisco, CA August Hall
Jun. 10 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre
Jun. 12 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up *LOW TICKET ALERT
Jun. 13 Phoenix, AZ Musical Instrument Museum *SOLD OUT
Jun. 14 Phoenix, AZ Musical Instrument Museum *SOLD OUT
Jun. 16 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
Jun. 17 Austin, TX Paramount Theatre
Jun. 19 Atlanta, GA Center Stage
Jun. 20 Pelham, TN The Caverns
Jun. 21 Graham, NC Haw River Ballroom *LOW TICKET ALERT
Jun. 23 New York, NY Sony Hall
Jun. 24 Somerville, MA Somerville Theatre
Jun. 26 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Jun. 27 Phoenixville, PA The Colonial Theatre
Jun. 28 Asbury Park, NJ The Stone Pony
Jun. 30 Norwalk, CT District Music Hall
Jul. 1 Woodstock, NY Bearsville Theater
Jul. 2 Cleveland, OH Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Jul. 3 Homer, NY Center for the Arts of Homer
Jul. 4 Toronto, ON The Concert Hall
Jul. 7 Chicago, IL Park West
Jul. 8 St Paul, MN The Fitzgerald Theater
Jul. 10 Kansas City, MO Knuckleheads
Jul. 11 Denver, CO Summit Music Hall
Starting out in 1980, The Church have continued to expand their highly cinematic and atmospheric blend of indie rock, shimmering post-punk, icy dreampop and psychedelic post-rock without retreading their steps. Their expansive music career yielded a string of hit songs including “Under the Milky Way,” “Reptile,” “The Unguarded Moment” and “Almost With You” amongst others and their equally stellar live shows have been deemed “spectacular” by MAGNET Magazine, citing their “dreamy psychedelia that will daub your evening with shades of paisley.”
The Church’s epic five-piece line-up is bassist, vocalist and founder Steve Kilbey; with long-time collaborator Tim Powles, drummer and producer across 17 albums since ’94; guitarist Ian Haug, formerly of Australian rock icons Powderfinger, who joined the band in 2013 and multi-instrumentalist Jeffrey Cain (Remy Zero) since 2020. The band have also recruited Ashley Naylor, long-time member of Paul Kelly’s touring band and one of Australia’s finest and most respected guitarists (Even, The Grapes, The Stems).