“I don’t really know why all this has happened exactly. Timing, but also maybe people were just tired of everything being so fancy.” – Seasick Steve

Over the last 2 years, no new artist has been embraced by Australian audiences quite like Seasick Steve. Having been invited back to the Bluesfest circuit for a 2nd year in a row, Seasick Steve is now coming back to play a bunch of different festivals to a whole new group of soon-to-be-mega-fans and win over even more hearts across the country.

Already announced as part of the Lorne and Marion Bay Falls Festival line-ups, as well as Brisbane’s Sunset Sounds and Southbound in Busselton, today Chugg Entertainment is thrilled to announce that the one and only Seasick Steve is going to be playing two very special sideshows of his own in Melbourne and Sydney.

For those who haven’t heard the rags to riches story of this blistering and passionate live performer, you’re in for a treat. Before winning Best Breakthrough Act at the 2007 MOJO Awards, Seasick Steve had held down jobs as a carnie, a garbage man, a roofer and even sold shoes, just to name a few. He’d lived a life on the road, having left home at 13 in the 1950s, traveling the country mostly by hopping freight trains and hitch hiking. In the nineties he worked as a recording engineer and producer with many bands, including Modest Mouse, but it was his performance on the Jools Holland Annual Hootenanny BBC TV show in 2006 that shot him to stardom and resulted in him playing the most UK festivals of any act in 2007.

His debut solo album, “Dog House Music’, sold more than 140 000 copies in the UK alone and then in 2008, his sophomore album, ‘I Started Out With Nothin and I Still Got Most Of it Left’, made it to the UK Top 10, selling over 250 000 copies. Since then, he’s sold-out major shows including a prestigious Royal Albert Hall date, charmed every festival from Glastonbury to Latitude and became the oldest Brit Award nominee in history.

Now Seasick Steve returns, not only with a new tour, but a new album as well. ‘Man From Another Time,’ is an organic album that throws away modern studio trickery in favour of the warm style of ‘live’ analogue recording. Just like his raw and personal live show, everything on the album is performed by Seasick Steve, aside from drums which are again credited to his longstanding Swedish sticksman Dan Magnusson.

Also appearing at Falls Festival Lorne on Tuesday 29 December, Falls Festival Marion Bay on Thursday 31 December, Sunset Sounds on Wednesday 6 January and Southbound on Saturday 9 January.