Rob Thomas, lead singer of Matchbox Twenty and a hugely successful solo artist in his own right, returns to
Australia this summer for a limited series of concerts.
Thomas is a prolific songwriter who has contributed to the sales of over 80 million albums worldwide to date - as
lead singer/songwriter with Matchbox Twenty, as an award-winning collaborator with the likes of Willie Nelson,
Mick Jagger, Bernie Taupin and Carlos Santana, and most recently as a solo artist.
After warming up with a two-month tour of the US, Thomas will return to Australia for a series of arena and winery
shows, commencing in February 2010.
Rob Thomas undertook his first solo Australian tour in February 2006, a visit that included 9 sold-out arena dates.
As the front man of Matchbox Twenty and solo, Rob has toured Australia 6 times, most recently in 2008, with total
ticket sales now well in excess of 350,000 nationally.
Thomas embarked on solo career with the 2005 album release Something To Be. Fuelled by the #1 worldwide
smash hit Lonely No More, This Is How A Heart Breaks, and Ever The Same, the album went #1 here and in the
US, and hit multi-platinum sales.
Last month, his follow up album Cradlesong was released. The album went straight into the top 5 on the ARIA
album chart and hit #3 in the Billboard Top 200, and features the hit single Her Diamonds, a multi-week # 1 airplay
hit in Australia.
The Grammy Award winner has his name on an impressive number of smash hits including US #1s Push, 3AM, If
You're Gone, Bent, How Far We've Come, the Carlos Santana hit Smooth, as well as on other major tracks such
as Real World, Back 2 Good, Little Wonders, Mad Season, and Bright Lights.
"The reason I do what I do is because I have all these songs that are always building up in my head, so it's really
cathartic to get a load of them out into the world and start over again," Thomas says. "And the solo career is a
really important way for me to do that."
Special guest on the tour will be one of the great voices of Australian music VANESSA AMOROSI.
Her album “Somewhere In the World” yielded the gorgeous platinum single “Perfect” which has been nominated in
the upcoming APRA Awards as The Most Played Australian Work for 2008. Most recently Vanessa teamed up with
US rockers Hoobastank featuring on their song and video for “The Letter”. Her live performances are always
acclaimed and of course, expect the hits we all love ‘Absolutely Everybody’ and ‘Shine’.