London rockers The Dust Coda have announced an eight-date UK tour this winter, beginning with a ‘hometown’ gig at Camden’s Boston Music Room on December 4th. The tour announcement caps off a milestone week for the Anglo-Australian four-piece, who have also enjoyed a first venture into the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart with their second LP Mojo Skyline.
Tickets are now on sale for our December tour!
We CANNOT WAIT to get back out there and play for you all! Bring it on!
You can grab your tickets at https://t.co/Ydhc1yhde1 @RouteOneBooking
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— The Dust Coda (@TheDustCoda) April 1, 2021
Reviews for Mojo Skyline have been broadly positive thus far, with Louder Sound‘s Malcolm Dome comparing The Dust Coda’s well-honed blues-rock sound to the likes of Led Zeppelin, Bad Company and Humble Pie. Dome writes: “There was always going to be an album that would come along and lift the much vaunted New Wave Of Classic Rock to a new level. And this could be it.”
In an interview with My Global Mind, vocalist John Drake said that the band fully embraced comparisons to their stylistic influences. The group’s Antipodean frontman said “Honestly, I do not think about trying to not show or hide influences. I just get together with (guitarist) Adam and write these songs and they come out the way they come out and to be mentioned in the same breath as Robert Plant, or Chris Cornell or Axl Rose, which I often do, to me is just a massive compliment. I do not think, ‘Oh, God, they are nothing like us.’ Because I am like, ‘Well, that’s great.’ Because the Dust Coda is a melting pot of some really great bands and if someone mentions that we are a bit like that, or I am happy with it because we are really confident with our sound.
Drake adds: “We feel like we are honest. It is not contrived. We are not trying to contrive something and make anything like something, if you hear that part of the song do you think there is a bit of that there and then you get to the chorus and you think it is a bit more Audioslave. I’m like, ‘Great. Why not?’ I’m cool with that, man.”
Mojo Skyline, which currently sits at number #27 in the UK Albums Chart, arrives just over three years on from the band’s 2017 eponymous debut LP. The new record was produced by New Zealander Clint Murphy, who has worked with an eclectic mix of artists including Welsh rock icons Manic Street Preachers; Spice Girls alumna Mel C and US hip-hop giant 50 Cent. The Dust Coda have already released a fiery collection of high-octane singles from the album; including the ZZ-Top-esque hard rock stomper Limbo Man; the blues-nu metal fusion Breakdown; and brooding rock-pop number Jimmy 2 Times.
The Dust Coda’s scheduled UK tour dates this year are as follows:
04/12/21 – Boston Music Room – London
05/12 – Deaf Institute – Manchester
06/12 – King Tut’s – Glasgow
07/12 – Billy Bootleggers – Nottingham
08/12 – Head of Steam – Newcastle
10/12 – The Exchange – Bristol
11/12 – Dead Wax – Birmingham
12/12 – Heartbreakers – Southampton
