News

New single to grace NZ airwaves

Hello to our loving NZ fans – we have exciting news!

We’ve been busy as hell over the past 6 months working on brand new songs for you all.
It’s been 2 1/2 years since our last recordings and we couldn’t wait long to show you all the best music we’ve ever written – so we’ve decided to release a brand new single to your ears next week.

Stay tuned to our Twitter and Facebook feeds this coming week as we’ll be posting videos from the recording sessions and news of the release throughout.

Please spread the word and get excited as this shit’s gonna be huge,

Love.

ALBUM OUT IN AUSTRALIA, SHOWS ANNOUNCED

Our debut album, The Brave Don’t Run, has been officially released on Australian soil and is now available in stores and online.

We’ve also lined up the following shows in the coming months, so please spread the word:

Fri 25th June – The Ivanhoe Hotel, Manly NSW – FREE ENTRY, doors 9pm, w/ Dark Bells.

Sat 17th July – The Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor NSW – FREE ENTRY, doors 8pm. w/ The Dead Love

Thu 22nd July – The Sandringham Hotel, Newtown NSW, $10.00 plus B/Fee presale, doors 7:30pm, w/ Tales in Space and Nick Van Breda – Tickets on sale at www.oztix.com.au or through www.newworldartists.net

Thu 29th July – Revolver Upstairs, Prahran VIC, $10 + bf, $12 on door, doors 8pm. w/ Cola Wars and Sunset Circus. Tickets on sale at www.oztix.com.au

Fri 30th July – The Karova Lounge, Ballarat VIC, $12 on door only, doors 8pm. w/ Indigo Children

Sat 31st July – The National Hotel, Geelong VIC, $10 + bf, $12 on door, doors 8pm. w/ Indigo Children Tickets on sale at www.oztix.com.au

Sun 1st August – The Elephant and Wheelbarrow, St Kilda VIC. $13 on door only, doors 8pm.

EP release in US, Golden Love features on One Tree Hill

Following the sync of “Golden Love” to US hit TV show ‘One Tree Hill’ where it was played today on the final episode, we have subsequently independently released a 5 track EP digitally in the US. The EP is called “When the Cavalry Comes” and features ‘Golden Love’ Australasian hit ‘The Letter’ and more. A link to iTunes can be found below. We are extremely excited to have a release out in the states and look forward to getting back to tour.

LINK TO ITUNES STORE

“All On Our Own” out now on Australian TV & Radio

We have just released “All On Our Own” to Australian TV & Radio last week, please call your local station and request the song. All radio info is on our MySpace page! We also shot a new video for song, i have posted it below.
Cheers!!!

Midnight Youth supporting Birds of Tokyo tour

2nd BRISBANE SHOW ADDED

We will be hitting the road with Birds of Tokyo from the 28th of April
“The Saddest Thing I Know” Tour will be hitting the following cities!

Thurs 27th May: THE HI-FI, Brisbane QLD
Friday 28th May: THE HI-FI, Brisbane QLD
Sunday 30th May: HOBART UNI BAR, Hobart TAS
Friday 4th June: PALACE THEATRE, Melbourne VIC
Saturday 5th June: ENMORE THEATRE, Sydney NSW (All Ages)
Sunday 6th June: THE GOV, Adelaide SA
Thursday 10th June: METRO CITY, Perth WA

For Ticket and Pricing info check out our “dates” page!

Summer Tour “THE WOAH OH OH” Tour!!!!

We will be hitting some of the summer destinations playing shows this summer, with our good friends Dane Rumble & Pistol Youth

Presented by ZM and C4 we will be playing the following locations!

Fri 18 Dec – Stampede Bar, Papakura, AKL
Sat 26 Dec – Boiler Room, Whakatane
Sun 27 Dec – Colosseum, Taurunga
Fri 8 Jan – Waihi Beach Hotel, Waihi
Fri 29 Jan – Mangawhai Tavern, Mangawgai

ALL TICKETS ARE FROM WWW.EVENTFINDER.CO.NZ

Midnight Youth play Big Day Out 2010!

Midnight Youth will be playing in Auckland at the Big Day Out festival on Friday January 15th 2010.

Time schedules and stages will be announced shortly

Free ALL AGES show for Myspace Music Launch

There will be a FREE all-ages show at Galatos, off K-Road (Behind the Studio) in Auckland on Wednesday the 4th of November in the celebration for the launch of Myspace Music in NZ, a great new way to interact with fans on Myspace.
The Brunettes, Earlybirds, Family Cactus and more playing too…

Here’s how to get there…

TEXT MYSPACE to the number 8800.
Simply type the code into a new message and send it to the number to receive your double pass via text.
1 RSVP per mobile number.
You will receive a SMS back, which is your ADMIT 2 Tickets to the event.
There are limited numbers of RSVP’s for the show. If you receive a message stating that you didn’t make the RSVP apologies but the legal capacity has been reached.
Save the SMS ticket (and whatever you do don’t delete it!) present it at the door for entry. Each ticket has a unique number that will be stored against your mobile number.

Midnight Youth wins 3 Tui’s at the VNZMA’s!

Thanks to all the people who helped us on our journey to picking up a couple of Tui’s last Thursday night at the prestigious Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards.

We were honoured to receive:
PPNZ Best Rock Album
Steinlager Pure Best Group.

Andrew Buckton walked away with the MAINZ Engineer of the Year for his amazing work on “The Brave Don’t Run”

These awards are very important to us and we were incredibly grateful to have been nominated in the first place.

Check out the videos of our performance in YouTube and go to the C4 website to look at pictures from the night.

Thanks once again!!!

Two Auzzie Dates

We are playing on Wednesday the 14th Oct in Sydney at the Raval (Esplanade Hotel) and in Perth on the 17th at the One Movement Festival at the Esplanade Big Top Stage!

<a href="http://midnightyouth.bandcamp.com/album/the-brave-dont-run">All On Our Own by Midnight Youth</a>