APRIL SHOWS AND OTHER THINGS

Hi, it’s been a while. It’s been two years since we played a headliner in Australia. 

We’re coming out of the caves to play a couple of shows. We’ve been working solidly on new material and will be playing some of it live for you in April. You’ll also get to meet our new drummer, Al, he’s ace. We need to initiate him into our live shows, so we thought we’d open with Challenger Part 1 and make him sit there for 7 minutes doing nothing. 

We are incredibly excited about the new music that is coming out. We might only get to play a couple for you, but we have a huge set planned and can’t wait to play live again. 

It’s a busy time for everyone. Every 18 minutes there is a new tour announced, which is awesome, but we know you can’t get to all of them. That, and Coles stole all of our money. So we appreciate anyone who can make it out to see us. 

We are also playing with Botch in May. Which is mindblowing, to say the least. After this small run of shows, we’ll be heading into the studio to record our next album.

We’ll be supported at both shows by Melbourne’s prog intronauts LUCID PLANET.

APRIL 2024 HEADLINERS
FRI 05 APR – CROWBAR, SYDNEY
SAT 06 APR – HOWLER, MELBOURNE

BOTCH 2024
THURSDAY 23 MAY - TRIFFID, BRISBANE

See ya soon. Much love.
WLTS

HERE COME THE ROMANS (AND BOTCH)

If you told us a lifetime ago that we’d be opening for Botch one day in the distant future, we would have probably laughed. We grew up listening to these guys and all of the bands that were exploding around that scene at the time. It formed a huge part of who we were as young musicians. Something like 24 years later, against all odds, here we are supporting them on their first/last/only Australian tour. Life goals are getting ticked off with this one.

See you in Brisbane in May. Huge props to Bird’s Robe and Sargent House for making this happen. Loads of great bands supporting this tour. This won’t ever happen again, so get on it.

Tickets from birdsrobe.com

END OF AN ERA

We Lost The Sea has always operated as some bizarre, dysfunctional family. We’ve been able to create and experience some incredible things as a band together. We’ve been through hell and back together as well. We’ve always funnelled this joy and sorrow into our music and we have tried to present ourselves to you in the most genuine and honest way possible. The backbone of this honest, heartfelt performance since the beginning of the band has been Nathaniel D’Ugo. Today, we are announcing Nathaniel’s departure from We Lost The Sea. 

Mark and Nathaniel started We Lost The Sea in a shitty rehearsal room in the outskirts of Western Sydney in 2007 and he’s been a massive part of our sound, our performance and the personality of the band ever since. From Campbelltown to sharing the main stage of Dunk! Festival with Mono, he’s been an integral part of the journey and some of the best moments of our lives have been shared with him. We are going to miss him. 

Nathaniel composed some words for you all.

“With my departure from We Lost The Sea I wanted to take a moment to thank anyone who ever came to see us play or supported the band in any way. I may not have been the most talkative or social member of the band but I certainly appreciated all of you and seeing you from my seat at the back of the stage every night filled my heart with huge amounts of joy. Thanks to you I was able to see parts of the world I thought I’d never see and experience things I thought I’d never experience and for that I am forever grateful. Also a massive thank you to all the bands that we shared a stage with and everyone that helped the band along the way but a special shout out to Mike Solo, Matt Cook, Chris Flynn, Zoe Gale and my long suffering tour roommate Michael Taverner. And last but not least a massive thank you to my beautiful wife Alyssa for your unwavering support and patience while I was on this journey. 

Until next time…”

As for what’s next, we are going to keep our heads down and keep writing. We’ll be making an announcement regarding a new drummer soon and hopefully we’ll see you somewhere along the highway in the not too distant future. 

Peace,
We Lost The Sea

EUROPE IS A WRAP (AGAIN)

Triumph & Disaster Europe part 2 is done. Phenomenal experiences. Finishing with MONO (Japan) joining us on stage Dunk!festival was a life highlight. Once again Solkyri brought the energy and vibe and we couldn’t have had a better bunch of dudes backing us up with riffs and hugs. Massive shout to our fam Cookie, Zoe and Chris for guiding us through. Thanks to all the fans for the love and support and chats. Europe is our spiritual home and we love being here. A million Belgian beers later and the long journey home begins. See you next time! #amot #wooooo #fieldyslaps

T&D IN EUROPE - PART 2

We first started talking about the Triumph & Disaster European tour back in 2018 before the album even had a name. It was meant to be a massive 6-week jaunt across the continent. The biggest adventure we’d ever attempted.

Since then, a lot has changed. A couple of babies, new jobs and life commitments all exist in a different world. Playing in this band isn’t our full-time gig and our time away from home is precious. It’s a huge collective effort from everyone in and around the band to get us anywhere. That includes our fans.

You completely blew us away with your passion last November. Our heads are still ringing, literally! We’re on a mission back there in May with fervour and renewed energy for part two. We visit loads of new places, return to a few of our favourites and finish large at Dunk!Festival.

If you don’t see your city up there, we haven’t forgotten you. It means you’re on the schedule for another time. Jump on a train and come and see us. Someone rode 600km on a bicycle to see us last time. There are no excuses!

Thanks again to Liam at Echelon, Mike at Bird’s Robe and all the promoters for the work and patience.

09/5 - Utrecht, NL @ ACU
10/5 - Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang
11/5 - Copenhagen, DK @ A Colossal Weekend
12/5 - Hannover DE @ Bei Chez Heinz
13/5 - Leipzig, DE @ WERK2
14/5 - Berlin, DE @ CASSIOPEIA
15/5 - Vienna, AT @ Viper Room
16/5 - Munich, DE @ Backstage
17/5 - Zurich, CH @ Werk21
18/5 - Mainz, DE @ Schon Schon
20/5 - Ghent, BE @ Dunk!Festival

MONO AT THE MANNING

It will be an honour to be sharing the stage again with MONO (Japan) in March. It was another lifetime ago at the The Newtown Social Club (RIP) and The Corner Hotel where we crossed paths with them the first time in 2015. We were completely blown away by their mesmerising cacophonous sound that destroyed those small clubs. True road warriors and legends of the game. It will be great to see them after all this time.

This will be our only show in Sydney for a while. Hope to see you there.
GET TICKETS HERE

EUROPE 2022 TOUR WRAP POST

It’s been two weeks since we played the last show of our tour to a full room in London. It’s also taken some processing to fully grasp the immensity of what has become our biggest and best tour we’ve ever done.

We didn’t really know what we’d be walking into after such a long time. Needless to say the response has been huge and heartfelt and we are extremely grateful and humbled by all of you. To everyone who came to see us, from literally all over the world, thank you! Even when we walked into a venue that looked like the final kill scene in a Tarantino movie and stunk like a toilet without a seat, you turned up in droves and made each night memorable. Thanks for all the chats, stories, tears, laughs and hugs. Those are some life affirming moments.

The first thanks have to go to our tour partners in Solkyri. You guys rule. Thanks for mucking in and getting the work done. From day one you played hard, kept the vibe up and put up with our utter garbage on a daily basis. The meme MVPs! Successfully corrupted, foot on the fold back, post-rock n roll 2560 > 2750.

Second goes to our crew who are now our new family. Chris, a wee man with a big heart, the workhorse tour manager, you made us laugh a whole bunch and were a comforting hug at the end of a long day. Zoe, smiling sunshine at the merch table and keeping us in check each night. We’ve never had our products displayed in such a beautiful format before (nor had our fans) and the sales show it. Front of house legend, Matt Cook, for his professionalism, whipping us into line when we needed it and taking a few for the team. No Faceapp smiles needed. And Big Mick behind the wheel, old twinkle toes, not one spilled cup of Yorkshire plus some late night therapy sessions for anyone who wandered into the cockpit.

Thanks to all the venues, staff and promoters for putting us up and looking after us. It’s a different world out there and things can fall over at any time. We appreciate you and the efforts you make to keep bands touring.

And lastly but mostly - our partners and families back home. We couldn’t have done it without your support, looking after the kids and holding it down. There were a lot of surprised faces from fans when we said we don’t do this full time. Props to everyone in and around WLTS for making this happen. Hard work paying off from all directions.

Now it’s time for rest and reflection and we’ll get back to you with more news soon. We can’t thank you all enough for making our tour the best yet and we can’t wait to do it all over again.

Much love,
WLTS

THE QUIETEST PLACE ON EARTH TURNS TEN

On the 1st of December 2012, we released our second record “The Quietest Place on Earth” with a show at ‘The Roxbury’, a 100-capacity room in the Sydney suburb of Glebe. We had a new vigour with the recent addition of Matt Harvey on guitar following the departure of two founding members. This was the first of four monolithic shows we played in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide. It came a year and a half after we had recorded it. The master had sat on a shelf at Mark’s house gathering dust during a period of uncertainty in the band until Matt invested his own money to press 250 vinyls. We knew we had written and recorded a really special record, we just couldn’t get it together long enough to put it out. Ten years since its release it holds a special place in the heart of our band. It is the last record with our brother, Chris, who would pass away a few months after its release. A record we are still extremely proud of, a record of beauty and anger. “a plunge, a dive, I gamble fate.”

For the anniversary edition we went with an elegant black, gold and white design with gold foiling inside and out. The insert is a 60x60cm fold out poster featuring artwork by New Zealand artist Jeremy Geddes from his cosmonaut series. As well as a second insert and solid white vinyls. There are no other colour variants of this package.

We have these on tour with us right now!

This release is also available through Dunk! Records in Europe and from us worldwide. Pre-orders are online now. These will start shipping in February 2023.
https://welostthesea.bandcamp.com/album/the-quietest-place-on-earth

THE TIME HAS COME

We’re about to board a plane, fly for 30 hours, and arrive in the past. See you on the other side.

A recap of our show in Sydney a few weeks ago.

T&D AT THREE

This week Triumph & Disaster turns three. When we released this at the end of 2019 we obviously had no idea what was in store for the world at that point.

It’s now 2022 and we finally get to tour it. Four weeks until we play our first show overseas in 3 years and 5 years since we’ve been to Europe. Excitement and nerves are high. We really forgot how much planning goes into these things and we’ve all been running at full speed for months now trying to make it all fall into place. No small feat. Many thanks need to go to Mike at Bird’s Robe and Liam and Echelon for their work and maneuvering. Also to ourselves and our families. We’re not a full time band but it takes up all of our time anyway. Fitting weeks into days and hours into seconds. In any case, it’s shaping up to be an excellent time. We really hope to see you there.

Unless we get hit by that asteroid that is inevitably coming, we hope this tour marks the start of us getting back on the road more regularly and, with a little luck and a heap of patience from our partners and families, we will see you in your corner of the world at some point in the coming months and years. 2023/24 are already in the works. A new album is coming. Things move a bit slower than slow these days but we’ll get there.

Thanks for all your support over the years. Many more to come!

WLTS

ONE WEEK TO GO

One week to go.
Melbourne has sold out. Classic Melbourne.

EAST COAST TOUR SUPPORTS

We have a lovely bunch of folks lined up to support us on our upcoming October tour.

Brisbane - October 14
The Zoo
Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/4panesfj

Main support: Madeleine Cocolas - Music

https://madeleinecocolas.bandcamp.com/album/spectral

Madeleine Cocolas is an Australian composer and producer who creates predominantly post classical and ambient instrumental music. Her work moves between lush soundscapes to experimental electronics, field recordings and solo piano. Her latest album “Spectral”, released on Room40, garnered positive reviews from outlets including Pitchfork, The Wire, Electronic Sound Magazine as well as being featured as Bandcamp’s Album of the Day.

Opening: The Sea Shall Not Have Them

https://theseashallnothavethem.bandcamp.com/album/debris

The Sea Shall Not Have Them have delivered a new album DEBRIS - their first new music in 7 years - in partnership with renowned Sydney label The Bird's Robe Collective. DEBRIS is "one of the best albums of 2021.... They sit in rare company with those who can capture the mood of our darkest moments as humans but still make it one of the most beautiful sounds you will ever hear" (Heavy and Weird Music Blog review).

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Sydney - October 15
Oxford Art Factory
Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/ykmc95uk

Main support: Bonniesongs

https://bonniesongs.bandcamp.com/album/energetic-mind

Art-folk virtuoso Bonniesongs, aka Bonnie Stewart, released her debut album Energetic Mind in September 2019 via Small Pond and Art As Catharsis. Bonnie’s lilting vocals float over gentle peaks of acoustic and electronic instruments, layered ethereally into what may be a moderately enchanted loop pedal. Under the spell of thrumming guitar, Stewart renders her arrangements with a fidelity of performance that seems to amplify an almost spectral presence.

Opening: clayhands

https://clayhands.bandcamp.com/

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Melbourne - October 22
Northcote Social Club
Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/5adbzech

Main support: Lack The Low

https://lackthelow.bandcamp.com/album/god-carrier

Lack The Low is the project of Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Kat Hunter. Her music marries disparate sound-worlds and influences, combining impassioned vocal melodies with complex, maximalist arrangements. Hunter’s songs are delivered as field-notes for moving through existential doubt, addressing feelings of hopelessness about global warming, cruelty and grief, and breaking through to revelatory ideas about surrender, nurturing and receptivity.

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Opening: Hello Porkins

https://helloporkins.bandcamp.com/.../a-vegetable-of-sounds

Hello Porkins is a self produced instrumental rock project from Melbourne, Australia. They draw inspiration from 70s prog as well as modern post rock and post metal music. Their new record "Contraption" is nearly complete and due to release in 2023.

EAST COAST AUSTRALIA TOUR 2022

We’re heading out on a short East Coast run in October. We’re returning to some of our favorite intimate and loud clubs to have a bit of a warm up and road test some new material before we head to Europe. Time to break the rust off our instruments and souls for our first headlining tour since 2019. We'd love you to join us.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW
SUPPORTS TBA
FRI 14 OCT – THE ZOO, BRISBANE
SAT 15 OCT – OXFORD ART FACTORY, SYDNEY
SAT 22 OCT – NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB, MELBOURNE

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THE JEZABELS NATIONAL TOUR

We're very excited to announce that we'll be supporting The Jezabels on their 'Prisoner' Ten Year Anniversary Australian tour. 

It will be our first tour since 2019 and it takes us to the best venues in the country and we can hardly believe we'll be ticking them all off in one go. 

We've dreamed of playing The Enmore Theatre since we were badly dressed teenagers going to see our favorite bands and it will be a huge moment for us. 

This is no doubt quite a different crossover for WLTS and we'd like to thank the band and management for the opportunity and to let us play our unnecessarily long songs for their fans. 

Tickets are very limited so you'll have to be quick or wait until we headline these rooms next time. 

Tickets and info https://thejezabels.com/

EUROPE AND ENGLAND 2022

Hello friends in Europe and England, we have some good news.

Our new and rescheduled tour dates are going to be in November this year! Like everyone, we’ve had to move these a few times and hopefully this is the last time, but who knows. Either way the thought of touring in some of our favorite places in the world for the first time in 5 years fills us with immense joy, something we all need right now.

This is part one of two sets of dates, the others will be around May/June next year. If we aren’t making it to your town in November there’s a high chance that it will be next year or that your town doesn’t like us, either way it’s mostly out of our control. We are extremely looking forward to seeing you all again, please stay tuned to our socials for more updates as it gets closer. Ticket links in blue below.

Thanks to Liam from Echelon, Mike from BRR and all the promoters for pulling the dates together for the millionth time.

WLTS EUROPE AND ENGLAND NOVEMBER 2022
with support from Solkyri
05/11 - Manchester, UK @ DAMNATION FEST*
06/11 - Brugge, BE @ Cactus
08/11 - Toulouse, FR @ Connexion Live
09/11 - Lyon, FR @ Hard Rock Cafe
10/11 - Bordeaux, FR @ Krakatoa
11/11 - Madrid, ES @ Moby Dick
12/11 - Barcelona, ES @ Razzmatazz 3
14/11 - Budapest, HU @ Dürer Kert
15/11 - Cluj-Napoca, RO @ FORM SPACE
16/11 - Kosice, SK @ Tabacka Kulturfabrik
17/11 - Warszawa, PL @ Hydrozagadka
18/11 - Prague, CZ @ Modra Vopice
19/11 - Neunkirchen, DE @ GLOOMAAR FEST
20/11 - Hasselt, BE @ Muziekodroom
21/11 - London, UK @ 229
*Solkyri not appearing

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EUROPE AND UK TOUR 2022 & 2023

The last 18 months have been tough for everyone. While a lot of you were opening up and getting on with life, most of Australia was thrown into another lockdown. This has been incredibly draining. However, it’s given us time to focus on other parts of our lives that are important.

There are some new members to the WLTS family. We got locked down for a year, so we decided to have babies. Also during this time, while the band took a back seat, we focused on our own wellbeing and our families, our careers and our education. We actually managed to write most of a new album, which is amazing considering we’ve been kept separated for months. Now we’re just opening up and coming out of our hovels into the sunlight and it’s bright out here.

The plan is to tour Europe in November 2022 and then head back around June 2023 when we are properly ready and all the pieces are in the right place. We may even have a new album ready to go. Don’t worry, we’ll still play your favorite song, but we might also be able to road test a new one. 

Sorry to disappoint anyone who was looking forward to seeing us early next year, you’ll just have to wait a little longer. We are beyond excited to get back to Europe for the first time in five years! 

WLTS

LIVE STREAM THIS FRIDAY

In true 2020 form we will be making our show available for you online! This Friday night we will be live streaming our sold out show at Crowbar Sydney from 9.30pm AEDT (10.30am GMT / 2.30pm PT).

Solkyri 9.30pm AEDT / 10.30am GMT / 2.30am PT

We Lost The Sea 10.20pm AEDT / 11.20am GMT / 3.20am PT

We were both set to tour Europe/UK together this year but for the pandemic - so join us online to see a glimpse of what those shows might have looked like!

Tickets are available from here

Desolation Sessions - Crowbar 2020

We’re happy to announce that we’re teaming up with the legends at Crowbar Sydney and playing a couple of intimate shows in November. 

We wanted to help bring people back together to a family run venue that is struggling hard this year and that we hold very dear. We couldn’t even imagine Sydney without Crowbar.

Even though it’s going to be an odd and unique feeling being back on stage in such a strange time, it’s also going to be great just to play some shows for a release and to have a good time. We wanted to signify this year with something positive. 

Never thought we’d be playing Crowbar to room full of candlelit tables, but here we are! 

We’ll be joined on each session by our friends, Solkyri, who released their new album ‘Mount Pleasant’ last year. We were meant to be touring Europe together so come see us in Leichhardt instead.

Friday 20th November
6pm tickets
9pm tickets

Saturday 21st November
6pm tickets
9pm tickets

70 seated tickets per show.
$25+bf per session

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TRIUMPH & DISASTER ONE YEAR ON

Triumph & Disaster is a year old this weekend. If you’d asked us when we were recording it, back in March 2019, where we thought we’d all be in 12 months time, we would have said touring, and not stuck in lockdown while the world suffers through a global pandemic.

This album was inspired by post-apocalyptic literature, the devastating impacts of over production and human pollution has had on the planet, and of loss and love. It strikes even harder in 2020. If we had waited even a few more months to get this out we may never have.

Anyway, let’s put our positive energy back into play and push and work for better times ahead. We actually have some really cool things happening that we can announce soon! It feels odd saying that but also good.

Thanks for your support this year with all the bandcamp day sales and vinyl repress, you guys came through for us, and all the other artists, during tough times for everyone. Huge respect.

See you again soon.

WLTS

Departure Songs - The Five Year Anniversary Special Edition Vinyl

Just over 5 years ago, about three weeks after finishing the recording of ‘Departure Songs’, we played a show at The Captain Cook Hotel in Sydney. When we took the stage there were about 5 people in the room, and part of us expected that this was going to be somewhat of the new normal for We Lost The Sea. 

Fast forward five years and hundreds of kilometres on the road and in the air, on trains, two massive China tours, a huge EU tour, some amazing Australian headline runs, shows with Russian Circles, Baroness, Mono, Boris, Meniscus, Rosetta, our music being used in a Ricky Gervais Netflix show, surviving robberies in Poland, blown tyres in Germany, almost missed flights in Guangzhou, playing Dunk!, radio interviews, phone interviews, shirts off in 38 degree Budapest and so many thousands of Pringles. It has been an incredible journey and we feel very lucky to do all these really amazing things. 

However, the single best thing about the last five years has been you - our fans. 

We have talked with, high fived, cried with, hugged so many of you all over the world and the most amazing thing is how Departure Songs means so much to so many of you. You are the reason for all of this and we never take that lightly, we feel like these songs belong to everyone who has loved, everyone who has lost, and everyone who has needed a little help along the way. These are your songs and they will outlast this band of 6 dudes from Western Sydney just trying to write some songs for their mate. 

We had some plans to tour Europe and Australia this year but, like everyone else, a lot of our plans have changed or on hold. We didn’t want to let this significant moment pass without acknowledging it so we did something special and tangible. We’d like to present ‘The Five Year Anniversary Special Edition Departure Songs’ vinyl. Included in the package is extra artwork used for the tour posters from the last 5 years. One piece of art for each year, printed individually on 240gsm card with the tour dates on the back, as a thank you to everyone who has stuck with us over the years. For now, enjoy this special edition of /1250 (2 colour variants - /500 exclusive to WLTS) produced by Dunk!Records. There won’t be another pressing of this specific version so if you miss out you’ll have to wait until the 10 year anniversary! To celebrate this moment and with the huge amount of love and dedication from Dunk!Records - we are also repressing ALL of our other records (One variant each only). Pre-sales will be online May 1. 

Vinyls will be released on 25th of June which five years to the day we released Departure Songs in 2015. Quite fitting.

If you haven’t seen us live yet, we’ll be back on the road once all this is over and the world is in a better place.

As always, thank you for all the support.

WLTS

https://welostthesea.bandcamp.com/merch

Departure Songs 5 year anniversary special edition - WLTS exclusive /500 (Fifth pressing)

Departure Songs 5 year anniversary special edition - Variant 2 /750 (Fifth pressing)

Crimea - Fourth pressing /300

The Quietest Place on Earth - Fourth pressing /300

Triumph & Disaster - Second pressing /1000

Departure Songs Live at Dunk! 2017 - Second pressing /500